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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-04-24

of land containing lat acres in the v i
sec 90 Up II ST &c 81 II
Primeaux, Valconr a certain tract ~
land containing go acres situated In the
Sc 4 sec IL tp II sr ae 4A
Revillion. p s a certain tract OF Land
containing 10 acres bounded on thu
north by Lake Arthur lOxs
Spell, Jos q certain t 7ct of land con.
tanning 20 acres In the south portion a.
Sc 4 Sc 1 sec27 tp 10 ST . Lac
Trahau, F jra certain tract Of land
containing s acres bounded on the north
by Nj Trahan on the south By P Lucien
amount of taxes 0Bs
TrahGnyP Emile a certain tract OF
band containing ls9 acres In lot 8 sec Is
Up ilsf2W aI6
Vincent, Valsint estate Of 60 acrea
bounded onsthe north by T Dugas On
the south ey Benoft 26Ia
William, Frank a certain tract OF land
containing rs acres bounded on the
north by Frahll 2s&
Winston, Mrs Agnes a certain tract OF
land containing 2f9 acres ih the n 1 of d
e / NV / sec SO tp lis 3e Is o.
On said day ! will sell such portions
of said property as each debtor will1
point out, and in case the debtor viii
not point out sufficient property, | will
at once and without further delay sell .
the least qlantlty of said property Of
any debtor which any bidder will buy
for the arnaant of the taxes, interest,"
and costs due by said debtor. The
sale will be without appraisement for
cash, in legal tender money of the
United States and the property shalt
be redeemahle at any time for the
space ef D tear by paying prices Civ
en- with 20 per cent. and all costs and
penalties added.
]. Oscar HILBERT,
Sheriff and E1-OfRcio Tax COR.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-04-24
Sheriff and Ex-Offcio Tax COR.
Laad Office at Nov Orleans. La, j
March 10 800 n z

March IL. 1875
Notice is hereby givensth that the follow
ing named settler has ified notice of his
intention to make final proof in support OF.
before CLERK of Districts Conrt, at Alb
bsville, In. on AprA26is 1857, viz
Paul Beoussard,
who made Homestead ENTRY No. 1904, for
the Ne ] OfSec 20 T. ilaSR2 West.
lie Names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
c2it!v ation of. said land, viz:
GSphroyea Malceasax, Adam Bronssar&
john Hnngssford. Piaeide Labauys all Of
Verpiillion parish, La.
G.afCD. BRrMBY.
March 81, ~. Register.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
RaiIroad Men Were wise.

are not regretting their labors and vote.
of last year in favor of Mckinley, sound
money and protection. The gross earn
ings of the year just ended for the rail-
roads of the country are $4,000, 900
greater than in the year preceding, and
the number of people employed has large
ly increased, with higher scale of wages
in many cases. Railroad shops have start
ed up all over the country on full and
overtime, giving employment to thousands
of old hands who had been thrown out of
employment by the previous depression,
and the difference generally between con-
ditions in railroad circles now and year
ago shows remarkable change.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
Popocrats. Attention.

What were some of those remarks that
Were heralded around from Popocratic
stump to stump last year, to the effect
that our currency was so limited and con-
tracted that we could not do business,
and that the only hope for return to
prosperity was through the free coinage
of silver at 16 to L? 1t is quite evident
ocrats We're laboring under mistake, be-
cause by reference to the election returns
of 1896 it viii be seen that the free coin
age proposition was not adopted, and yet
here we find in the country to-day nearly
a hundred million dollars more in circula-
ton than there was a year ago, and not
a dollar of it free silver. Gold alone has
increased in circulation in the last year
over fifty million dollars.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13

America and of American institutions
who are fond of prophesying that the time
will come when the United States will
split up into several different countries.
The wish is father to the thought, for it
has no real basis on existing facts Every
true American knows that that time will
never come, and deplores and condemns
any talk which tends to arouse sectional
ism.
What spirit of sectionalism still exists,
we owe almost entirely to the free traders
They Systematically try to stir up the
West against the East on the ground that
protection unduly favors the Eastern
manufacturers; they try to rouse the East
against the West because as they say.
protection favors the Western ranchers
to the detriment of the people of the East;
they try to arouse the South against the
North and the North against the South.
1t is quite consistent that those who wol.id
make a catspaw of our own country to
enrich the nations of the earth should try
to sow the seeds of disunion within our
own borders. The American people are
indebted to the free traders for many
evils, and not the least is this effort of
theirs, on every occasion, to stir up
spirit of secdonaIism. 1t Is an evil which
should be stamped out in summary fash
ion and all honor should be given to that
thoroughly American law, the Dingley
law, which, by protecting all sections of
the country alike, has disarmed section
a1iSr,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13

$4,000, 900, or about 100000 day.
The gold exports which have begun are
therefore small by those which will follow
and they will come at time when the
treasury at Washington holds within 3d.
100000 as much gold as the Bank of
England. Not unnaturally discount rates
are falling here and risking abroad, and
with the rise abroad in discounts has come
a sale of American securities to this coun-
try The national mortgage is being paid
and one more step taken toward the imam
cial and commercial supremacy OF the
world
Wheat prices turn just now on Argen-
tine supplies, which may be from 1O,OoO,-
600 to $4,000, 900 bushels, no one knows
which Free exports continue and the
Western farmer is making his sales at
higher profits and less trammeled by arti-
fetal causes than in a number of years. TO
the national advantage. The Daily Dry
Goods Reporter puts the cotton yield at
9,371 900 bales of 500 pounds. This would
be, with one exception, the largest crop
on record, and both cotton and print cloths
fell last week. Bessemer pig and steel
billets rose last week and in general iron
and steel look to larger prices. The ship
ments of boots and shoes are now at the
highest figures Observation-Disclosures
Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
Louisiana Business Improved.

The Shreveport jobbers and Wholesalers
mite in saving that the business season is
opening nicely and promises to be unusually
active. They are In a position to know. and
We hope and suspect they are correct in this
conclusion. Confidence is gradually increas-
ing in all departments of trade, and It really
of prosperity is about to dawn upon our fair
and fertile Southland. 1t is trusted that the
expectation may meet full realization
Shreveport Q1a-) Times
We are glad to learn of this business i'm
movement and trust that it extends
throughout Louisiana. The answering
efforts of United States Senator McEn-
cry to secure protection for, and to pro-
mote the interests of, his State are
promptly bearing good fruit. Whenever
The sugar industry of Louisiana is pros
perous then all its wholesale and retail
interests must be in the same happy condi-
ton.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
Export. of Nfauuracturers.

The excess of merchandise exports for
September reaches the stupenuous fig
ure of $50, 2S1, 1S7. This is $1,000
600 over the most liberal estimate
and SIS ,OOO, 600 more than seemed likely
two weeks ago. Never in our commercial
history have exports been so large from
the lesser ports and this deranges all cal
culations. The excess Of exports is al
most twice the excess in September, 1896,
$34, 215, 1OS. Last year the cotton crop
was early. This year it is late. 1t is NOV
ing in October when the excess of mer-
chandise exports was $63 ,049, 261- Inn
ports are this year less than last year for
New York by SPITE, 900, and while ex-
ports from New York are about $500, 600
less, they are undoubtedly larger for the
country, as $4,000 more bales of cotton
and 2, 6OO, 900 bushels of wheat are known
to have been exported from all ports The
heavy excess of September viii therefore
be in all probability equalled and the two
months win have an excess together Of
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
Far from Discouraefng.

The free trade organs are fond of compar-
Ing the tariff receipts of the first sixty days
OF the DIngley law with the first sixty days
of the Wilson law-well knowing that spe-
son bill before Its passage and while the
Dingley law was neutrality-suspicious. CPa.)
1ntelligencer.
Allowing for the disadvantages under
which the Dingley bill suffered, during
the first sixty days of its enactment, a
comparison of its results with those of
the Wilson bill during its first two months
incubation, is far from discoura ging to the
friends of protection. 1t will be found
oil
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
A Wise Action.

The Presidents action in the appoint
ment of a special reciprocity commissioner
to arrange our reciprocal trade relations
with the countries entering into our recip-
rocity agreements is spoken of with gem
eral satisfaction. Under President Har-
rison's administra ton these matters were
attended to through the State Depart
ment, whose tedious routine methods occa-
stoned considerable delay, but the sub
ject was an experiment ut that time, while
under the last administration the recip-
rocity treaties Were all abrogated, leading
to retaliatory measures on the part of
Spain, France, Germany and South Amer
lean republics
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13

son why the British manufacturers should
not do equally well, and says that 1.-THE
American machinery is inferior to that of
British make, and cheaper, but it sells
well, and that is the principal thing" If
a few English firms were to subscribe to-
gether and send out a man to visit the
Islands Of Principe and 8. Thome, and
then Loanda, Benguella and Mossam-
medes, so that they might get an insight
into what class of machinery is required
in those parts, their money would not, the
vice-consul stated, be badly spent, and
they would learn a great deal. They
would probably learn something about the
superiority of the American machinery.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
rney Arc Disappointed.

The Democratic orators who were ex-
nect;n1 to make mince meat of the feature
Of the Din<ley law relating to expectation
of American manufactures have lapsed
into singular silence Nor are they max
ing comparisons of the expectations un-
der the new law and those of a year ago
under the Wilson law. For their excln-
siye information, attention is directed to
the fact that these expectations aggre-
gated during the second month of the
Dtnrley law SOS, $50, 600 as against $751;
T56, 600 in the corresponding month of
last year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
A Sure Barometer.

The monthly statement of the postal re-
ceipts of the principal cities of the coun-
try, which has just been made public, is
of great significance as an indication of
the condition of general business. A
handsome increase in the income of the
postoffices of the leading cities was made
in September, as compared with the same
month in 1896. In only a few places of
$4,000 inhabitants or over was there any
falling off in the month. One of these
was New Orleans, where the decline was
probably due to the yellow fever, which
has seriously depressed business in that
town and throughout large part of the
region bordering on the Gulf of Mexico.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
Continues to Sweep Over the
Land, Placing Prosperity
on a Solid Basis.
Various Sections Vie with One Another i'm
Proclaining the Return Of
Good Times.

IN HE record of mercantile and
manufacturing activity continues
- to verify the predictions of those
trade optimists who have been contend
ing all along that the upward move
ment Is not spasmOdic or speculative
but actually rests on n basis of growing
demand which Is destined to be perma-
nent. 1t is now over three months since
the new tariff law was approved by the
President. While the most ultra-pro-
tcetionists will not contend that the
new law could have such a marvellous
effect upon trade conditions in so short
a time, no careful observer will deny
that the revival of business confidence
has been steady and continuous since
it's enactment. 1t is an Illustration of
what n settled economic policy on the
part of the Government will do for the
business interests of the country.
The significant features of the phe
nomenal trade Improvement are the
heavy increase in iron production and
consumption, the largest payments
through clearings ever known in Octo-
Der, the increase in the employment of
labor and the record breaker in wheat
exports. At every point where actual
production can be tested it appears
greater than before. The increase in
the employment of labor has continued
and there are daily reports of resump-
ton of work in idle factories and sharp
advances in wages.
The September exports of wheat sur
pass all records, amounting to 25,S6S,
S3S bushels, against 17,646,S15 bushels
last year, the value being over 100 per
cent larger for all breadstuffs. For the
week inst closed the total eXDOrtS of
wheat from both coasts of the United
States aggregated 6,039,720 bushels,
against i, $50 GAL bushels last week, A.
156,S17 bushels year ago and 100000
bushels in 1895.
With such a favorable showing in
all departments of business activity
the pessimistic calamity waller hasn't
u leg left to stand on.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
American Bluntness.

1t is Secretary Sherman's blunt way
that is displeasing to Englishmen, and
it certainly does not place Salisbury in
the most favorable light. The American
people will not think any the less of Sec
rotary Sherman for the opinions regard
ing him of the English press. He may be
wanting in the useless arts and wiIes of
diplomacy, but he knows how to state
facts that everybody can understand
them and he has shown himself to be a
ma tch in controversy for Salisbury or any
other British diplomat.-Omaha Bee.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
Have Money to Spend.

Profits and wages being good in the States
may cause such demand all round that the
British trades will feel something of 1t in
spite of the tarin--Bradford CEngland) OBJ
server.
We think so. This was the result dur
ing our prosperity under Mckinley pro-
lection. When money is abundant here,
our people always buy freely of British
luxuries. 1t is from such purchases as
these that we add largely to our customs
revenue under a protective tariff.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13

fall of 309, OS9 tons. The amount of iron
made now and during three months past
is very closely equal to the amount in
1898; but the amount actually consumed
is considerably greater.
This goes to the root of prosperity be-
cause the consumption of iron is the best
possible measure of the activity of rail-
roads, both in maintenance and in new
construction, of house building and of new
manufacturing plants. This increased &C
tivity also was chiefly in the past month.
From July 1 to Sept. 1 stocks only fell
1876, tons. In September pig iron
stocks fell 1883 TONS Taking pro-
duction and stocks together, in July and
August, about 172, 700 tons were consum-
ed each week; in September 226, 200 tons
weekly. Here is an increase Of %, 500
tons in the weekly consumption of iron
in September over the average of July
and August, an increase of 81 per cent.
Such an advance in the consumption of
iron indicates a very large advance in the
disbursement Of wages, because the
amount spent on any enterprise for iron is
a very small share of the total expended
for wages in the same enterprise.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
A Rebuke to Demaeoeues.

To the demagogues and agitators who
are assailing the corner stone of Ameri-
can government, the judiciary, the ex-
ample of Justice Field comes as speak
ing rebuke. Field entered upon his duties
just before the most trying time in Amer
lean history, the period of reconstruction.
During his long career on the Supreme
bench he won the respect even of his
bitterest political opponents. He was
ever true to his convictions.-Cincinna
Times-Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
What Comptroller Ecke1s Says.

The statement of Comptroller Eckels of
the United States treasury in regard to
the business improvement throughout the
country is very encouraging. He states
that 1.-THE improvement has come rapidly
and permeates all lines of industry. 1t
began with the agricultural class. The
farmers have large crops and are getting
good prices for them. The cattle raisers
are benefited by a substantial rise in the
price of cattle. The same is true with the
sheep raisers. This improvement in agri-
cultural earnings has had its effect on the
railroads by increasing their earnings. 1t
has put money into circulation and en-
abled people to pay off their debts, and
has thereby benefited the merchants"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
Banks Attest Revival.

st. Louis bank clearances in the week
just ended, which were, in round figures,
$50, 900, 900, were up near the highest line
ever reached. The increase over the same
week in 1896 was 2S.2 per cent. Proba-
bly, if the yellow fever scare in Texas and
along the gulf coast were ended, St. Louis
clearings these days would be breaking
all records. Part of the territory thus
affected is, in business way, tributary
to St. Louis.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
They Acknowledge the Corn.

The silverites have at last weakened in
the face Of the rapid depreciation in the
value of their metal. 1t was a matter of
surprise that they should have shouted
silver as long as they did, in view of its
steady depreciation, but they were doubt
less in hope that something-wheat or
something else-would carry it up again
to it's price Of last year. Instead of this,
it has gone down like chunk of lead, lit
orally, and finally stands at such ridicu-
lousy low figure that they have been fore
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13

Senator Jones of Arkansas called atten-
tion-m a speech in the Senate-to the
remarkable record of the Wilson law as
relating to the expectation of American
manufactures. And yet the expectations
of this class under the second month of
the operations of the Dingiey law were
% per cent in excess of those of the CORE
spending month of the Wilson law of last
year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13

The British vice-consul at Loanda states
that up to the present no British firm has
sent out representative to Angola.
There is a fair demand for cane-crushing
mills, steam engines and turbines. A
representative of an American firm is out
for the third time within four years, and
has done good business. He sees no rea-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13

for county fairs through the country. Mr..
Bryan ''lectured" at the Wichita, Kan,
county fair the other day, under an agree
ment to receive one-half of the gate re
ceipts. This was paid him, amounting to
$1,000, but it was then discovered that he
had been swindled by the management,
which had made extra charge for grand
stand tickets and for selling beer, the pro-
ceeds of which were not divided with Mr.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
SectionaIism.

The spreading of protectionist sentiment
in the South, the impartial and wholly ma
tional spirit which has determined the
provisions of the Dingley law, and the
wise and statesmanlike utterances of
President Mckinley have gone far to de
stroy the remnants of that sectionalism
which, forty years ago, threatened to de
stroy the Union. There are enemies of
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
Won't Acknowledge the Corn.

Already the law (DingIey) is indicated so
fsf as It's eject upon the Industries of the
country Is concerned. 1t will be justified in
due time a revenue measure.-Omaha
CSeb-) Bee.
True. But the free traders will never
be honest enough to acknowledge it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
Speak Up, Mr.. Bryan.

Mr.. Bryan was heard to say some
months ago that he would be glad If the
Mckinley administration could bring
prosperity to the country. That was very
patriotic, but has anybody heard his ex
pressions of satisfaction since it has Gomez
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
Nebraska's Best Hope.

Mr.. Bryan's remarks in a private letter
of adnonition to his friends in Nebraska
that the Republicans are working night
and day to carry the State No doubt
this is true, and it will be great good luck
for Nebraska if the Republicans succeed
in their object.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13

ed out of self-respect to quit bowling for
free coinage, and are now kicking around
the political junk heap for some other
worn-out kettle which they can patch up
and hang over the political fire
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
Hardly Possible.

The country wants rest from tariff agita-
ton and tariff tinkering, and besides there
is no reason to suppose that the present Con-
gress would pass any better tariff law
Lynch5urg Va-) News.
We doubt whether any Congress could
pass a better tariff law.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-13
More of 1T.

The Financial Chronicle notes many
proofs of improving business. Bank clear
ings in August were SO per cent better
than in August, 1896, and September
clearings are 80 per cent better. The
September clearings, in fact, are the larg-
est in our history. Failures were but
1,012, with liabilities of $10,309, O33,
against LOLA failures, with 500, ia 17
of liz abilities in the same month last year.
Railroad earnings were 1875 per cent bet
ter on eighty-four roads than on the same
roads in the same month of 1896. These
are cheering signs of a general growth in
business and returning prosperity. If We
could only quiet our jingoes and give prac-
teal interests chance a bright future
might be Observation-Disclosures Sun
Dem.).