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From 1912 until the last days OF the Harrison
Administration In lsSS II was the consistent policy of
negative control over Hawaii. by insisting that no
other nation should seize possession OF the islands,
Euenfng Post.
In l954it was the consistent policy" Of Will
LIAM l.. MARCY to exercise positive. and not
negative" control over Hawaii BY the actual
annexation of the islands by the United States.
AS Secretary OF State in tho Cabinet of Presi,
dent PIERCE. that illustrious Democrat nego.
tiated a treaty with the Hawaiian Government
for the annexation OF Hawaii. which fell through
because of the death of the King before its sat.
i~sfactory arrangement. The assertion OF the
Evening Post. therefore. is false. as usual when
the Post has a case to make out.
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In Florida.

From the Chtplev Enterprise.
We have our stove up now. and II some one win
bring US a load of pine knots. we will have q fire.
From the Mayo Free Press.
Mr. W. z. Bowman has our everlasting thanks for Q
great big moss of great big turnips.
From the Cra,ofordrflh Breese,
Small game Is so plentiful in the hummocks Of
WauSulla county that a boy with one eye and a sling.
shot can get all he wants.
From the Macrlennu Press.
The Mormon preachers are still having a cake walk,
they walk where the pot boils the strongest. They
have made'several converts, and at a recent meeting
ordained our worthy towrsman, Henry l.. Wester, AZ
high priest. with tho title of Father Wester.
From the Chfpiey Enterprise.
When pcrsimmons wrinkle in the wind and tho
candy oozes out, when the ierries turn to sugar. then
the 'possum walks about. and the cur that slept In
idlencss while the summers sun was hot knows tho
time has come to stir his Stumps and md meat for
the pot. And the Niger digs his 'taters and spreads
them In the sun. ho cares no more for chicken, and
he leaves his work undone; ne pots his dog and spends
his night In looking for q meal that's sweeter than
anything he can buy or grow. fanked deep with POI
tatoes brown. needs nothing but p%ersimmon beer to
float II richly down. And then the Niger Is a king
you couldn't make him vote. and he cares not for his
neighbor's gold. his chicken. nor his shote; he will
not pick your oranges; he's rich as well as free, and
swears that Florida Is the land for him as well as me.
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The Stake IL Too High, Gentlemen

Dispatches from Washington represent
che Republican members Of the Ways and
Means Committee rs perfectly satisfied
with the Dingley act. 1t ia reported that
they rave reached a general understanding
that the best plan Ia to wait and see how 1t
will work by and by.
The room occupied by the Ways and
Means Committee Is not the place where
this question should be decided. The Re-
publican members Of the committee ought
not to be the final judges of tho adequacy
u OF the revenue measure which they
constructed last summer. They arc to
some extent ~prejudiced. Their pride
of authorship is involved. They are too
ready to gid opinion with hope. They are
naturally willing to run risks and take
chances that something will turn up in
the more or less remote future which will
verify their original estimate Of the Dingley
tariff as a revenue producer.
When they allege, therefore, that a tariff
which is piling up the deficit higher and
higher every month is " perfectly satisfac-
tory what they really mean is that as the
authors of that tariff they are perfectly
satisfied to postpone as long as possible the
formal admission or confession that the
act has not accomplished all that was
expected of It has not done all that they
predicted it would do.
But what is it that these gentlemen arc
90 willing and ready to risk
Not merely a SNOWFALL of n deficit, max
ing more and more difficult the orderly
adjustment of the nations finances, and
putting Off longer and longer the practical
trial of President MCKINLEY's plan of
currency reform, a test which he expressly
postponcs until the time when revenue
shall equal expenditures.
Not merely their own regulations as
tariff makers and revenue prophets. That
is something Of comparatively small i'm.
portance, except to themselves.
What they are willing to risk is the sue.
cess of the Republican party at the Con-
gress elections nert November, with all the
direful consequences that would follow
the Transformation Of tho present Republi-
can majority in the House into n Bryanite
majority in the Fifty-sixth Congress, and
the direct and historically certain effect
which such a disaster would nave upon the
Presidential election of 1900.
This is gambling On the future with a
vengeance. The stake is altogether too
high, gentlemen OF the Ways and Means
Committee!
What is needed is that eminent Republi-
can authority shall say again to tho well.
satisfied authors and patient walters of
Mr.. DINGLEY's Committee, and to the Re.
publican Fifty-fifth Congress in general,
precisely what President MCKINLEY said
to the Fifty-hfth Congress when it began
its labors last spring:
I'VE should hare more revenue, and that
scithout delay, hindrance, or postpone
Snent."
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How Can the Canadians Expect To
Get Something for Nothing?

Among the few original articles in tho
November number Of the ReuieD of Re-
vieus there Is one hat seems worthy of
some attention. We refer to Mr.. L. V.
SMALIEY's discussion of what he Is pleased
to call 1.-THE New Canadian Reciprocity
Movement"
In the desire evinced by Sir WILFRID
LAURIER to obtain from our Government
partial reciprocity there is nothing really
new, for the treaty negotiated by Lord Ell.
GIN in 1854 admitted the raw products
Of Canada to our markets duty free,
while denying a corresponding privi-
lege to our manufactures. This is pre-.
cisely the kind of reciprocity that Sir
WILFRID desires. He wants US once more
to give Canadian raw products free access
to our country, but he has no intention
Of sitting infant Canadian manufactures
by admitting American commodities that
would compete with them. The only thing
new about Sir Wu.BRID's present policy
Ia the fact that 1t differs materially from
that which was advocated by him and by
Sir RICHARD CARTWRIGHT when they were
out of Office. Then they professed to favor
unrestricted free trade between the Domin-
ion and the United States, and thereby
had something to offer to that large part
OF our people which Is engaged In manufac
turing industries.
1t would, unquestionably, be Of consid-
cradle advantage to the manufacturers
along our northern border to be able to sell
their wares freely In Canada. While ad.
hitting this, we have often pointed out that
Canadians would gain far more than we
could. for the obvious reason that their raw
products would obtain access to markets
representing moro than 7O,OOO,000 con.
sumers, while our manufactures would
gain admission only to markets represent.
ing 100000 customers.
1t is, in truth, of relatively small i'm.
portance to our American manufacturer
whether they al send their wares to the
Dominion duty free or not. But it is of vital
NJ to the welfare of the Canadians to
find a sale In the United States for Their
great surplus of agricultural products, and
for the lumber In their forests. Mr.
SMALLET bears witness that. while IN at
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VIRGINIA BILL Against FOOTBALL
Views OF President Eliot or Harvard College
BILL Likely to he Defeated.
From the Richmond Time

FROM the RtchHlond Times.
Tho Senate Committee on General Laws re-
ported favorahly, by a vote of b TO 1, Mr.. Banks.
dale's bill TO prohibit football in Virginia.
before the committee, were in relation TO the
Georgia Anti-Football bill and were as follows:
The grounds on which arguments arc based for the
legal prohibition OF intercollegiate football do not
seem sun1cient to my mimi to warrant favor. I un.
derstnnd that q BILL has been passed In tho Georgia
amply on the ground that serious and sometimes
fatal accidents are liable to occur in hard-fought con-
tests. Tho direct cause for the passing of the bill
was. I believe. the death Of a football player, who
was injured In the game between the Georgia uni
versity and the University Of Virginia.
But II we stop to consider other sports we find that
there arc evcry year serious accidents in base
ball. boxing, fencing. and other gymnastic games.
reads OF many drowning accidents every year. This
does not seem to lessen the interest in rowing or
sailing.
Everybody cannot play football. II 10 only tho
strong and well.built men who can expect to play the
game with any degree OF success. Therefore I do not
favor football. for everybody. II is, OF course. a valu.
able exercise only to those who are able to play 1t.
So / think football should not be prohibited with
State ordinance prohibiting tho playing OF the game
before the bill in Georgia was passed. And. I repeat,
the grounds on which the passing OF that bill was
enected are not suncient to attract my favor.
1t was ascertained last night there were at
least twenty-four out Of forty Senators unal-
no doubt of tho defeat Of the measure.
"A prominent Senator remarked last night
that 1t was a significant fact that the Senators
from Albemarle and RockbridRe. where the
great games of football are played. were in
favor Of allowing tho sport to continue, while
represent counties whore the game IL seldom
played.
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The Good Old Name or slo.m,uea.,e Read

To TIE EprToR OF THE suN-Str: An an old New
Yorker. l was glad to see in your Issue Of to-day tho
note signed Nv. o. U" suggesting that tho absurd
and erroneous term" boulevard" be dropped. He
suggests that tho Western Boulevard might DO called
the Bloom!ngdale parkway.
Why should not the old historic name Blooming
dale road, by which that part of tho old Albany post
road was called for a half century. DO restored
The so-called Boulevard follows very nearly tho
line Of that historic and beautiful road. which some
of us who were born in the city well remember s o
charming country drive. extending from about
Forty second street through the village OF Bloom.
ingdale. and past many suburban mansionA until be-
yond Manhattanville 1t was merged in tho KinRs.
bridge road.
1t seems to me that It would be delightful to retain
as a memento of the past the gooi old name. We arc
not French. and we need no "boulovards."
NEW YORK, Dec. IL. z. n. W.,
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A Question for the Art Commission or the
Greater Now York.

eFeuteF NOW nOfk.
To TIKI EDITOR OF THE SuS--Sfr: After reading Mr..
w. Wallace Brewers letter on tho subject THE
Soldiers and Sailors Monument" In to-day's sun, ! am
led to ask. Why not place It in some suitable location
in Central Park?
1t Is quite natural that Mr.. Brewer. as q resident of
the extreme west side. should desire to secure all tho
public monuments possible for the establishment of
Riverside Park. where Grants tomb Is. but In tn.
Central Park. the most accessible and most popular
OF the peoples Fairgrounds. there is. as yet. not one
single great or noble monument, those there now being
to indivi. uals and those individuals mostly foreigners.
None OF the objections that apply to It's being act
up In the connn.d space OF avenues and streets with
their overtowerinR b%uildings. which OF course must
dwarf and belittle tho monument to tho memories OF
our bravo defenders" arc applicable to ITS being
located In Central Park.
As to Mr.. Browers opinion that II should DO placed
somewhere upon the water front Riverside OF course
preferredl, where the sailors can see It from the water
as well as the soldiers upon the land, - let mo say
that l am sure the sailors would prefer - shore leave !"
SO that they might gaze at It from, all points.
Grants tomb Is not TO Grants memory only; Il also
commentaries the victories OF III, soldier, and
sSilors whom he led. LUZ A. ia CuSHA.
NEW YORK. Dec. IA.
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SPEAKER I,eed's 1uraning wit.


No man with . reputation as a wit ever sustained
It SO continually or so happily as Reed. That is why
men will sit in the galleries for hours waiting until
some frivolous person on tie floor provokes a reply
from the chair. There was never yet a time when
Reed. given the opportunity. failed to let the rafters
ringing. The Speaker continues free from delusions
regarding the Senate. A member OF Congress went to
him the other day and asked for recognition in order
that he might call up a measure in which he was In
terestsd.
Tho bill" said the member. passed the senate
without q dissenting voice"
Then said Reed. placidly. THAT 10 the very best
reason why II should not pass the House."
Aud the bill still slumbers.
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Chinese Lawyer FOR white boys.

TFV" ~ VIVtU IIWFTFFFH'
A Victorian gold fields town has a Chinese camp,
also a Chinese solicitor. one evening lately, as the
camp was busy driving out the devil ian interesting
little propitlatory religious service). some boys spoilt
the proceedings, trst by throwing crackers into the
names and then by stoning the worshlppors. Police
court proceedings followed aud the Chinese lawyer
was engaged for the defence. The hrst time, this, In
an Australian court. when a Chinese lawy er has beoA
on one SIDE appearing for EuropeanS. with chinssS
principals on the other aida.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-16

The futile efforts of the German Govern
ment to keep American petroleum out of their
markets are somewhat interesting. The Ger
mans do not like the Russian oil. In favor of
which the Government has been trying to dis
criminate. They say. in tho first place, that tho
Russians cannot deliver their kerosene in Ger
many as cheaply as tho American product Is
sold throughout the country; and also that the
Baku illuminant Is Of inferior quality. and that
IL has q disaereeable odor even whom burned In
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-16
Frishlrul spread Of ylnEol.n.

From the atlanta Constn utfon.
JinEoism is plainly shown In the manufacture OF
children's toys. which this year are absolutely war.
like. Where formerly the Eoah's ark decorated tho
show windows. and sheep graEed peacefully upon
the velvet hills. tin soldiers now stand and cannon
decorate the long slopes.
The moral question has been raised whether 1t is
not harmful TO tho growing youth to place in their
hands so much that 10 conducive to the spirit Of war.
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h Lost treasure or BlueErassaou.

A flask OF prisoned sunshine's lost
And all Kentucky counts the cost
Hear. now, good Barak Thomas mourn
The nagon OF celestial corn:
~ thought 'twould have q warship's bow
Alackl but where's my whiskey now2
Whose guilty lips have known its wealth.
What statesman swallowed II by stealth2
when was the sacred cork drawn outP
Why were there no glad crowds TO shout
In honor OF that great event?
Why was the spell in silence spentP
"Alack! where wero the salyos which
Should have Saluted juice so rich2
What's a warship or Klondike gold
To liquor forty.nve years old ?"
But there's no answer. Ger the bow
OF that great ship another'S vow
Shall be bTeathed forth; another's wine
Shall guSh to meet the foamy brine.
But still good BArAk's feeling cross
And still Kentucky mourns her loss.
Bereft. a-thiBt and all foTlorn-
A'lopging for that precious horni Up, D
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We continue to observe with intereat,
though not with surprise. that wHITELAw
REID Is receiving the hearty and unanimous
approval OF the Democratic aud MuEwump
press Of this city and State because Of his
spitoful efforts to disorganize and dcfcat the
Republican party.
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lamps specially made for It. Tho German peo-
pie won't have II, and Russia doesn't seem TO
care. for she has been building up a large trade
in some Of the Oriental markets.
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MIR. spainhowIer or Missouri.

From the Kansas CITY Journal.
Some energetic Northwest Missouri digser-up OF
oddities in nomenclature has made tho discovery that
hr. spainhowier OF Gentry county is an ardent Cuban
sympathizer.
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our Jrtends t1ho favor us WITH rad1asortpfs Jo'
publication ,cfsh to haze rsecied articles returned
they must IN all casss ssnd stamps for Aat purpose.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-25
WE KICK VIGOROUSLY.

Well, we must admit we don't
know a thing about running street
cars for the accommodation OF pa
irons. We limited in our last issue
that a street car out on Maple st.
after the show, would be a good
thing, and advised the superintend-
ent to shove ii along, but great
minds differ and this is one time the
street car magnate, turned down
the Faber pusher, aud kept his car
off the park line. OF course the
reporter has no kick coming to
him, for he rides on a frank" but
he has sisters, cousins and aunts,
friends, Romans and countrymen,
who reside in the West end, that
pay, and should be carried to the
full length Of the road If they de-
sire to 90. On Thursday night, II
was very dark, muddy and chilly,
and people went out to the enter
tainment with the expectation Of
being carried within hailing dis
tance of their homes and boarded
the car standing at the opera
house, but they twere all dumped
at Mundays corner, and had to
cold foot it home, 1t was thus the
night before, and we cannot tell
but what 1t will be thus at the next
attraction at the opera house. We
do not write this to hurt Mr.. Whit.
ley's feelings for there is not a man
in the city for whom we hold kind
lier feelings than we do for this
gentlemen and his excellent family,
but we believe a kick is due the peo-
Pile who pay their fare and when we
feel this way we are bound to ele.
vate our heels and let 'em go high
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-25

The newspaper Of a town acts at
a barometer In creating an i'm.
preston with outside people, rightly
says the Milton (Vtl Rays, If the
paper Ia dull, Il follows the town Ia
Ia the same fix, The pride and
satisfaction the editor takes In the
progress aud growth OF the town,
the papers value as a medium by
which a towns advantages may be
advertised to the world, la re-
liability ae q means by which the
character and Intelligence OF a
towns people may be judged by
the outsider lta freedom from
sensational and demorallaug
features, In influence In local affairs
all arc signs that the progressive,
unselfsh citizens welcomes with a
warm hand,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-25

We are surprised to see the Pine
Bluff Commercial upholdlng Gov, d.
W. Jones In his abuse of the par
doning power and can account for
II only In one way Qf that be the
cause) because his daily contempora.
ry there is on the other side,
"Prlnce Charles" G, N, your ex'
preston "pardoning some criminals"
does not half way describe the
situation, II we are not greatly
mistaken Gov Jones has pardoned
about 200-it was over 100 when he
was In Office only three months, 80
said the Gazette,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-25

This preacher believes In the
newspaper mem Rev. Dr. Ferrell
invites editors TO occupy his pulpit
for pointing cut evils aud suggest
ing remedies, II anybody on earth
knows what the evils OF this eouu.
Try are aud the way 10 remedy
them Il Ia the newspaper man, lie
sees life In all lts stages, Not ale
ways because he desires IL, but be-
cause Il Ia his duty because OF
this he IA the best person TO give
advice aa 10 the probable remedies
for the evils, II he glorIed In them
he would not be thlaHing Of feme'
dies, but as he secs everything be-
eause II Ia hlA duty OF course he
thinks Of various remedies, The
editors aud preachers should work
hand In hand ahyway,=lgE
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-25
CHRISTMAS DAY.
The Day Of All the Days-We Cele
brate With Gladness.

On Christmas eve the bells were rung,
On Christmas eve the mass was sung,
That only night In all the year,
Saw the stoled priest the chaice rear
Then open wide the baron's hall,
TO yassal, tenant, serf and all,
Christmas Christ and mass, a
festival of the Christian church,
observed on December 25th, as the
anniversary of the birth of Christ,
the Savior
It's institution is attributed by
decretal letters to Pope Teles-
phorus, who died A, D. 1888, and
since this day it has been one OF
the most noted of Christian festiy-
tiles,
1t was at FIRST movable holiday,
and celebrated by the Eastern
churches in the months Of April
and May, In the 4th century, a
congress was formed for the pur.
pose of inquiring into the natal day
of the Savior, and It was fixed on
the 25th of December,
People of different chimes and
temperments celebrate the day In
different manners-some in bols-
ferrous fun, and some in religious
devotions,
In the United States the day has
been made legal holiday and busl-
ness of all kinds Is laid aside,
In our own little city OF Texar-
kama, the day will bo observed by
all, aud many will be the fat COB.
bers aud roasted pigs that will be
placed on well filled tables in almost
every house in the city, We coun-
sci on this day moderation In all
things, and ask our people TO keep
out Of difficulties and broils, and
try make each and every one whom
they may meet happy and content.
ed, by giving them the glad hand
and smile Of appreciation.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-25

The civilized nations Of the world
which pretend to be In favor of
peace are making greater prepara-
tlons for war than they have for
many years, Ina recent document
presented TO the British parliament
the annual naval expenditures Of
the leading nations of the globe
we're set forth In the following
figures Great Britain, tl20, 900, OOOi
France, t6l,OOO,OOO the United
States, t3O, 5000 Japan, t20, 700,
OOOi Russia, s2O,OOO,OOOi Germany
Ell 900, ,OOOi Italy t2O,bOO,OOO,
[Gazette,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-25

We most heartily endorse the
following hot editorial from the
Hot Syringe News
II has been often denied on the
floors OF Congress that the logical
outcome OF the present civil service
law would be d civil pension llst but
now seo'y dage has aetuallYstafted
civil pension llst, under The alias
Of troll Of houof' TO which all
treasury department employees
more than 70 years old are 10 be
transferred tof lie al a uniform
annual salary Of 1900 each that IL,
they are 10 BE, ualest Congress
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-25
Catarrh Cannot bo Cured.

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, aa
they cannot reach the seat Of the
disease, Gatarrh is a blood or con.
stitutional disease, and In order TO
cure II you must take Internal
remedies. Halls Catarrh Cure Ia
thaken internally, and acts directly
on the blood and mueus surfaces,
Halls Catarrh Cure IN not a Quaek
medicine, II was prescribed by one
of the best physicians In thls eoun-
try for years, aud Ia a regular pre-
5erIptlon, 1t Ia composed of the
best tonles known, combined with
the best blood purifiers acting
directly ON the mucous surface,
The perfect combination OF the two
ingredients Is what produces such
wonderful results In curing Catarrh,
Send Tor testimonials, free,
u, j, CllENNEY a. co, Props,
Toledo, O,
Sold by druggists, price Zoe
Halls Family Pills are the best
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-25

upsets this programme, which it is
more than likely to do. Nothing
has occurred since the civil service
act was placed upon the statute
books that will do more to open the
eyes of the people to the correct
ness Of the position of those demo-
Gratis who favor the repeal OF that
law. The country is today stag
gering under the burden of its
military pension list, and will not
carry civil pension list
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-25

The Hunter Transfer and btof.
age Co., have the only safe aud con.
venient rooms In the city, for stofs
age Of your furniture or piano, We
are prepared to store goodshol any
kInd. l,l-
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-25
luGSsHo

Every man thinks he has the
hardest burden to bear; the poor
man groans under his proverty,
while the rich man grows prema-
turely grey aud drops into the
grave from worry to keep from
losing his wealth. A strange world
thia