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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-05-22
There is Nothing So Good.

1nOr0 IS nothing 80 IOO0.
There is nothing just as good as
DR.. Kings New Discovery for con-
sumption, coughs and colds, SO de-
mand it and do not permit the
dealer to sell you some substitute.
He will not claim there is anything
better, but in order to make more
profit he may claim something else
to be just as good. You want DR..
Kings New Discovery because you
know it to be safe and reliable, and
guaranteed to do good or money
refunded. For coughs, colds, con-
sumption and for all affections of
throat, chest and lungs, there is
nothing SO good as is DR.. Kings
New: Discovery. Trial bottle free
at VIM. Clega's drugstore. Reg
ular size 50 cents and $500.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-05-22

The refusal of Sir Julian Paunce-
fote, British Ambassador, to attend
the Grant Monument cere onies
unless he should be given a place
next to the president and be given
precedence over the vice-president,
has SO wrought upon Senator Stew
art of Nevada that he has written a
poem dedicated to ellis Highness,
Sir Julian" The following is his
Byronic gem:
How beautiful it is to note
The great Sir Julian Pauncefote.
In grand affairs of quick or dead,
He always marches at the head;
And when he fails to have his way,
Why, then, Sir Julian P. won't play.
Let's hurry up with arbitration,
Ere war declares Sir Julian's station.
One would hardly expect to find
such youth and exhubel ance be-
meath the long whit beard and
patriarchal appearance Of the Sena-
tor from Nevada.-Ibervil South.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-05-22

If there were anything better than
the best then we'd aim for that.
The BUCKSkIN RREECHES
have got everything in them that
best use means. We'd like to make
them better still but don't know
how. Maybe if you bought a pair
and put them to the test, you could
help us improve them.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-05-22

If you need letter heads, bill
heads, envelopes, we will print
them.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-05-22
E.. TT. VORDENBAUMEN

Wants Builders and all
know
of Building grade,
most rates.
There is always full line of Pine Cypress Lumber
Shingles, Moulding Cisns Netting
Wire Builders Hardware, of all
Over1o rich of and
Churches and Specifications for sale.
erecting
prices suit the times.
~A D. MARTIN, Agent
Box 1873, Lafayette La.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-11
Delinquent Taxes. E.r tt1 Year 1895.

Pursuant to Section III, of Chapter CXXIX OF the
session Laws OF 1896 and the authority vested in by
said section. the undersigned, Jno D. Spencer Collsc
or OF Salt Lake County hereby give public notice, tina:
the following named delinquent in the pay
snent of State, Slate School, County, County School,
Special School, City and City School taxes for the
1896 to the amounts set opposite their respective
the property indcaed reference being hereby made
to the duplicate assessment rolls Of said county, in
my lawful custody, for the emzed amounts. which 20
to make up the whole amou OF delinquent herein
after set FORTH and the same il hereby made part OF
this notice. Unless said amounts together with the
costs accrued paid by Delinquent taxpayers
/ shall sell the property hereinafter described, of any
snch denquents, to the highest responsible bidder Tor
cash. in the manner prescribed by law. Said sale will
begin on Wednesday, February 3rd, 1897 at
IL O'Clock m Mt the south ixont door OF the County
Court House Joint City and County Buiding). Salt
Lake City, Utah, and will continue from day TO day
until the property OF SAID delinquents is exhausted
or the taxes and costs paid
JOHN d. SPENCER.
County Collector Salt Lake County Utah.
Dated Salt Lake City, Utah, January 0, 1907
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
A Railway Problem.

Nineteen western railroads promise
to adopt an interchangeable mileage
ticket. 1t is probable that the sebas-
tian method will be given a trial.
This is a plan which contemplates the
issuance of n certificate to the pros
pective travellers by any agent of any
of the lines. This certificate enables
the holders to purchase a regular tick
ct to any destination to which tran
sportation is regularly given under the
special condition that he is to receive
he travels 1000 miles or more, and one
cent a mile if he travels 1000 miles or
more within a year from the issuance
of the certificate. Selling agents ac-
cept regular fares and issue to the pur-
chaser a slip showing what has been
paid, the distance travelled and over
what line. Other slips go to the audit
ing department of the railroad used
and to the mileage ticket bureau of
the Western Passenger Association as
evidence of money to be paid over. The
passenger signs the original certificate
and the slips which are forwarded
to the mileage bureau. If all sigma
lures agree the rebate provided for
is paid at the request of the traveller
says the Times Herald.
THE decision to place this new tick
ct side by side with the old individual
mileage books" hardly gives the form
er a fair trial. Travelling men are
10 ,,1o ioI, tat Toe,
their going to the trouble of securing
ticket at a ticket window and the
presentation of this before they can
get baggage checked. Unless, there
fore, man expects to use more than
two or three roads he will not trouble
to get a Sebastian certificate, but will
use the old forms of mileage, which
he can present to the conductors on
trains. The Sebastian ticket will be pur-
chased only by those using a number
Of roads and those who desire to give
It a trial. The fact that it requires no
advance deposit of money covering the
entire value of the book, and so extra
to be rebated, may operate in it's fav-
or with men who do not like to tie up
their money for so long a time. On
the other hand, it may operate against
it with employers, who do not desire
to start travelling men out with ready
| money enough to purchase all the tram
| sportation they may need.
This system offers a number of ad-
vantages to those who travel much
and might well be inflated by a com.
| bination of roads in the East where
even a short journey necessitates a
trip over several systems. The pro-
| liability that it will be considered In
| the near future is however very
| slight.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
The Surplus Actors,

An estimable actress named Mary
Shaw has been making investigations
regarding the condition of members of
the histrionic profession. She finds
that the profession is at present ter
ribly overcrowded and realizes that
much suffering must result unless some
inducement can be offered that will
having the effect of Turing the un-
classified stars into other pursuits
Miss Shaw places the number of those
engaged in her calling in this country
at 5000 and declares that a large per-
centage of them is now out of work
and in really desperate financial
straits. The remedy which she sug-
gests for the relief of the profession is
close union Of managers and actors
for mutual benefit and protection.
Easy access to the stage, and not
the needs of managers or public, ac-
counts for the Overcrowded condition
Of the profession. Hope dies hard IN
a would-be actors breast, and it takes
a long time to convince an incompet
ent that he or she is not an ornament
to the stage and that their usefulness
lies in other directions. This cheap
talent is utilized by INSCRIPTIONS man
ayers, and not only the gifted members
of the profession, whose rewards
should be commensurate with their
merits, are injured thereby, but also
the public, which Is willing to pay for
good entertainment but is too often
forced to put up with a bad one by
reason Of incompetent players marring
the effects of their worthier associ-
ates.
Several events have occurred in this
vicinity illustrating the ease with
which a stage-struck MAIDEN with a
pretty face can spring into prominence
as walking lady" in the average barn
storming combination which is usual
ly made up Of one or two paid actors
supported by goslings who feed ex-
cluslvely on glory, With the class
composed Of ambitious Romeos and
Macbeths access to the charmed circle
Is more difficult, but the young nan
who is willing to study for the stage
withoutpay can generally secure an en-
ga6ement to assist in handling bag
gage and remark ME Lord, the carrl.
age awaits" as the long-haired hero
prepares to abduct the willing maid
en- confined in a lone tower
There is much sense In Miss Shaw :
view Of the situation and arguments
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
The Anti-Bread Fad,

An anti-bread crusade has been in
augurated in London. The enthusiasts
tic persons who have resolved to live
without the acknowledged staff Of life
will no doubt be able to cite medical
authority to show the harmfulness Of
eating bread and in any stage from
dry toast to warm biscuit with honey
dressing. 1t is doubtful, however, If
those who have resolved to live without
bread will be able to live very long.
They will no doubt in time return to
the cereals in which the countless hosts
of ages past have found their susten-
ance.
There is no denying the injury that
is wrought upon delicate stomachs by
hot bread and fresh light bread. That
may be avoided, though. by eating
toast, gems, cracked grains, stale and
unleavened breads. and the like. The
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
WOULD NOT TURN HIM LOOSE.
From the Globe Democrat.

From the Globe Democrat.
The author of that pervasive ballad
of the day. "Mr. Johnson, Turn Me
Loose" has been behind the bars in
New York city for disturbing the peace
at the entrance of a theater which de-
MED him pass as one of the profession.
He announced in vain that he wrote
melody that has caught the fancy of all
who hum or whistle the vagrant music
of the day, and, disregarding the warn
ing of special policeman, was carried
off to the station by one of the regular
force. Behind the bars he ruminated on
the shoals of fame and fortune and on
the faulty of the man who wanted to
write the songs of a people rather than
make their laws. To add to the irony of
fate all his fellow-p prisoners whistled
"Mr. Johnson. Turn Me Loose"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
CERTAIN PICTORIAL JOURNALS
From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazett

From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
Surely 1t is not unreasonable to ex-
poct that there will soon come a decided
reaction in public taste as to much of
the so-called illustrated Journalism. The
average mind is at least fairly healthy.
Curiosity will cause it's possessor at
times to visit morgues, chambers of hor-
rors and other places where gruesome
sights are to be seen, but only morbid
perverts will indulge in this sort of
nerve-drunkenness continuously. They
do not care to see such things actually
and individually every day, and surely
they must now have nearly a surfeit of
daily representation of them, in which
too many papers have been indulging,
making them worse, if possible, than the
real things represented. The more hide
Gus the reptile, the more pitiable the
deformity, the more loathsome the dis
ease, the more brutal the crime-in short
the more repulsive or suggestive the thing
treated, the moro have the disciples of
pictorial hysteria seemed to vie with
each other in making the pictured repre-
scrtation worse. Indications are in evil
dence that public taste is revolving at
this sort of thing, and that much of the
so-called illustrated journalism will soon
be forced to take on a healthier tone or
depend for its constituency upon those
20 whose unhealthy taste it caters.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28

It may be interesting to residents of
this region to know that the following
goods are on the free list in the new
tariff law Of Canada.
Coal, anthracite and anthracite coal
dust, coke.
Coal and pine pitch, and coal and pine
tar in packages of not less than fifteen
gallons.
Machinery imported exclusively for
mining, smelling and reducing, viz: Coal
cutting machines except percussion coal
cutters, coal heading machines, coal aug
ers and rotary drills, miners safety
lamps. coal-washing machinery, coke
making machinery.
All goods not enumerated in this act
as subject to any other rate of duty, not
declared free of duty by this act, and
not being goods the importation where
of is by this act or any other act pro-
hibited, shall be subject to a duty of 20
per cent. ad valorem.
Articles for the use Of the governor
general.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
SIGNS.

The melancholy days are here,
The signs are everywhere.
The woodland leaves are turning sere,
And fiuttering through the air;
The cricket cEirps it's mournful lay
Beneath the windows SILL
The buckwheat field is turning gray
Upon the distant hill.
A dreamy silence seem to spread
Ger al the country side;
The flowers that bloomed, alas! are dead,
Their petals scattered wide,
But cen without such signs as these
The hill immersed in haze,
The turning leaves upon the trees
We'd recognize the days.
For now the agile college men,"
With hanks Of hair to spare,
Are on the campuses again
And raising hedes there;
They're hosting flags and rushing canes,
And also hazing some,
And elsewhere showing that their brains
Continue out of plumb.
Cleveland Leader.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
WHAT FAILURE OF ANNEXA-
TION MEANS.
From the Philadelphia Press,


In accordance with the programme OF
the Hawaiian plotters, the announce
ment is now set forth that the Hawaiian
legislature has voted unanimously to rat
ify the treaty of annexation to the Unit
ed States. Why should 1t not? That is
the purpose for which the Hawaiian
legislature exists. This burlesque Re-
publican government, representing some
three thousand persons in population
of about a hundred and ten thousand,
has set Itself up for the avowed pur-
pose, and no other, of transferring the
sovereignty of the islands to this coun-
try. The people of Hawaii have no de-
sire for annexation and most of them
are distinctly opposed to 1t; but they
arc not allowed any voice in the cleo
tion of this legislature and they are held
In awe by the belief that behind 1t is the
power of the United States, and that If
they raise their hands the United states
will take possession. So they remain
quiet, while Mr.. Dole and his associat-
ed filibusters carry on their plot to un-
load their responsibilities and debt upon
this country. The failure of annexation
would mean ruin to them and they will
leave no device untried to win the des-
perate stake for which they are playing,
at the expense of the peace and honor of
the United States.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Lawrence Washington of Alexandria,
Va, has been appointed an assistant in
the congressional library at Washington.
He is to be in charge of the George
Washington department Mr.. Washing
ton is great-grandnephew of the first
president.
One of the oldest German instrument
makers, Ludwig Neuner, died in Bavaria
a few weeks ago. He was noted espe-
cially for his persistent yet frutless eff
forts to discover the secret of the warm
ish used by the old Italian violin build
ers.
Mrs. Livermore Is believer in CO.
operative housekeeping, and holds that a
saving of from u to 10 per cent. in pur-
chases could be made by a combination
of twenty-five families. If the bills of
fare were prepared by one set of cooks
another large saving would result.
On one occasion p. T. Barnum walked
into Dr. Colycrs church just as the
preacher entered the pulpit. Barnum
was put in a back seat. The clergyman
spied him, and, leaning over the read
ing desk, said: "Will that usher please
take Mr.. Barnum to my pew? When
so to his show he always gives me
front seat | don't see why he shouldn't
fare equally as we'll at my show"
Lord Wolseley is extremely supersti-
touS; indeed, he once owned in a letter
to the members of the Thirteen club
that while in Ireland he had worn out
several hatbrims through saluting single
magpies, and that he would not, ION
any account" walk under a ladder. He
also believes in ghosts, and can tell some
exceedingly strange stories of regimental
specters.
1t is well known that James Gordon
Bennett runs a four-in-hand coach be-
tween Paris and one of it's suburbs and
that any one who pays the fee may be-
come passenger, the proceeds being
devoted by Mr.. Bennett to charity. A
popularity of the millionaire driver, how
ever, is that he not only expects tips
from his fares, but is much annoyed
should any one dismount without re
membering the coachman," even to the
extent of very small pourboire. What
Mr. Bennett does with his tips is a mat
ter of conjecture
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
SPANS ALTERNATIVE.
the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
But there comes point when not
Nalor nor sacrifice nor all the energies of
the most devoted patriotism can avail.
The question is, Has not that point at
last been reached? Has not Spains fight
TOR Cuba become hopeless, and would It
not be the part OF wisdom for her TO
recognize that fact2 II she should with
draw from Cuba now she would not lose
honor nor reputation. She would not
lose friendship MOI esteem. She would
not lose even sirgle peseta in property,
for the Cuban war Is costing her far
more than Cuba, crushed, impoverished
and desolated, will be able TO repay her
for half a century TO come. She would
simply get rid of what has for more
than generation been thorn in her
siie, ana would gain the opportunity,
which she so soiely needs, to repair
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
CHANCE FOR NEW JOURNALISM.
From the Buffalo Times.

From the Buffalo Times.
The new journals of Greater New York
are missing a great opportunity. We
can't understand how they can be so
stupid. Up to date not one of the enter
prlsing newspapers of the metropolis has
published portrait of the COW that furn-
isbes the milk that nourishes the infant
Marquis of Blandford, prospective Duke
of Marlborough, great great grandson
of Commodore Vanderbilt.
We are told in the World that the in
FAINT consumes the regulation quantity
of diluted milk which is sent up twice
daily by private messenger from Blen-
helm Palace and that the COW which is
honored by being chosen to produce the
pabulum for his dukelets is set apart and
strictly isolated to avoid the possibility
of her contact with vulgar cattle to
which such important duties are not as
signed.
This is all wonderfully interesting. to
be sure. But then, just think how many
millions of people are Just pining away
and languishing for a look at a portrait,
even though it be but a crudely drawn
sketch of that COW! Here is a magnif-
icent opportunity to test the value of
that scheme for sending pictures by tele-
graph.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
THE WIDOWS.
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
1t is sad result of the worse side of
human nature that the older and the
more decrepit veteran with a pension
may be, the more likely in many cases,
is some young woman TO be found will
ing to marry him in order to establish a
claim to a widows pension. The revo-
lutionary widow has only just left us.
Judging by her perennial vitality, the
country may be paying pensions TO wild
ows of the last war in 1857. Sixty or
seventy years ago the shameless mar
riage of revolutionary veterans by wo-
men with an eye to a Widows pension
was a public scandal. 1t should be pre-
vented betimes for the last war;
Commissioner Evans has proposed a
most important reform, and congress will
have the support and approval of the
country in putting it into prompt execu-
tlon,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28

other theory that bread introduces
deleterious mineral substances into
the system is not by any means prov
en-. In fact the biochemists, after
years of patient investigation, have be-
come convinced that all or nearly all
forms of disease are due to deficiency
Of certain earthly substances, includ-
ing those complained of by this new
school Of dletarans. They have pre-
pared special mixtures Of the earthly
salts as curative agents, which they
recommend as the means Of securing
long life.
Almost since the beginning of time
people have been seeking the philoso-
piers stone and the fountain of eter.
nal youth and both have thus far
proved elusive. The anti-bread scheme
seems to be but another of the numer-
Gus fads that have been embraced by
restless and dyspeptic people who do
not take exercise enough to keep their
digestive organs in order.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
EVEN COTTON SEED IsB BOOMING
From the Easton Free Press.

From the Easton Free Press.
And now cotton seed is joining all agri-
cultural products in parting company"
with silver. A large increase in the price
of cotton seed and cotton seed meal is re-
ported, with prospect of still further
advances. Indeed, it is difficult to find a
farm product anywhere that has not
advanced during the very time that silver
has been falling. If our silver friends
are unable to account for all these ad-
vances through the famine abroad, will
they admit any part of it is due to the
Dingley law?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
BINGHAMTON WARNING UP.
From the Bnghamton Herald.

From the Binghamton Herald.
There is every indication that when it
comes to election day there will be very
hot time in Binghamton. The conditions
are ripe for it. There are factional fights
in both parties. In the Republican party
Green and his followers, by their meth
DDS, have split it in twain, and in the
Democratic party O'Neil and his faction
by their treachery in betraying the party
into the hands of Green have succeeded
in splitting that party into pieces. 1t ap-
pears now that the best element in the
two parties viii unite their forces to wipe
out the bosses and that they will do 1t
most elfectually eeems to be indicated at
present
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
SOCIALISM.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

IOIIT VIIO II INVE7E7UT . 10ENI7eINNFT'
The first argument in favor of socialism
of all the varying grades Is that the pres
ent system has failed so utterly that it
must be pulled up by the roots and
thrown away. We have no intention of
disputlng tine unsatisfactory nature of
present conditions. We have long ex-
posed and opposed the abuses which con-
centrate the opportunities of enterprise to
the benefit of a favored few. The urgent
need of reform is indisputable. But as
employed, in favor of the alleged reform
of putting all enterprise into the hands of
the government, the argument Of the fall
ure of the system is utterly destructive
of it's own conclusion.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
1T SURELY MEANS WAR.
From the Baltimore News.

From the Baltimore News.
1t follows. as a matter of course, if
President Mckinley has given Spain a
certain length of time in which to pacify
the island and has expressed a deter
mination to intervene at lne end of such
time, that means forcible intervention
in other words, war, The issue rests
with Spain. We are all practically agreed
in this country that Cuba has been de-
vastated long enough, and there is no
question that the interests of the United
States in the matters are serious enough
to justify us in putting an end to 1t.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-28
WHERE BELLAMY FAILS.

From the Boston Post
Edward Belamy, the writer on social
ethics, has gone to Denver, Co., in search
of health. With al his excellent Ideas for
the benefit OF. his fellow man, he cannot
devise any theory which will prevent the
progress of change and decay, over which
even the most benign, paternal govern
ment has no control