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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29
Missourfs Great Fruit Interests.

At the recent meeting Of the
State horticultural Society at
Moberly, the secretary announced
from carefully prepared figures
that the apple crop Of Missouri
this year amounted to s;12, ,000, ,00o,
the peach crop to s3,50O,o00 and
other fruits to $4,000, 900, giving a
total fruit production in the state
in 1897 of $40, 5000 This is !,
splendid and Il surprising addition to
the income Of our people. The
orchards and fruit gardens of Mis-
souri, have risen to their present
importance so quietly that not
much is known about them. Of
course every person in Missouri is
aware of the abundance of fine
fruit in the local markets, but few
have grasped the aggregate value
Of the fruit crop or its future
possibilities. The business is in its
infancy, and in the larger sense
only crudely understood. But the
time is at hand to devote more
systematic attention to the subject
and to keep in mind the fact that
the fruit of Missouri is destined to
yield an enormous revenue to those
who intelligently till the soil.
Farmers of the pioneer era had
more urgent business in hand than
the growth of fruit. AS rule
they planted small orchards for a
home supply and the near market.
All the care 4 tree received was con-
fined to the few minutes consumed
in planting it, yet the virgin soil
carried it through, and many an
apple tree has borne for fifty years
with no more attention than that.
F,.it, in the early days, was not
much Of Il cash producer, and
farmers looked to an orchard for
home comfort rather than income
As the years have passed the
country has become populous, and
lines fol distant transportation
have been built in every direction,
the fruit situation has totally
changed. Good apples and peach
es are decidedly cash article.
Missouri's unsurpassed apples
are wanted East and West, and in
Europe. Ou peaches at one time
last summer supplied the Boston
markets, and our apples can be
found to-day on the Christmas
stalls of London.
Decidedly, it is to the interest of
Missouri farmers to give imincdi-
ate and constant attention to their
orchards and to the work of en-.
larging them. The demand fol
fine fruit is unlimited, and that is
the kind grown throughout this
state by proper culture. Inferior
fruit sells indifferently, but that
is not the sort to raise. No one ir
recent years has seen first class
fruit, within reach of market. il
slow demand. No boundary car
be set to its consumption. Every
year finds it more Of a staple
article, from the smallest neighbor
hood to the largest marts of thu
world. Last spring the butchers o
St. Louis noticed that the bi.
strawberry crop cut down the sail
of. meats. Consumers preferred
the berries to a heavier diet at tina
season. One effective protection
against a glut of fruits is tn
modern scientific methods of dry
ing and canning. All the condi
tions favor the fruit grower VIII
intelligently plants and cultivate
his orchards in the favorable sol
and climate of Missouri. Frui
growing III this state can be classe'
among the most promising busi
ness opportunities.-GIobe-D Dem
Ocrat.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29

WHATEVER the Republicans may
do will always be wrong in Demo-
cratic eyes, although the latter
party has just given evidence that
it made a farce of an attempt to
improve on what the Republicans
had done.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29

BRYAN says one of the beauties
Of Mexico's financial system is that
prices never decline there. 1t has
also been remarked that the price
Of ordinary labor in that country
always remains the same, too,
about 15c per day.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29
around.

If one would believe the Popo-
crat papers, combination Of Bry-
anism and bimetallism would bring
prosperity to all in the proverbially
short space of time occupied in the
vibration of a lambs caudle ap-
,,o,,Jnc-o
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29

IT would be interesting to know
what the ''Republic' and post
Dispatch are paying for Uncle
Filley's serial story, ''How to Dc
Up the Republican Party" He
ought to charge high for the kind
of work lie is doing.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29
WILL Bro. AXE, of the Ironto1

WILL Bro. AXE, of the Ironton
"Register,'' carefully scan his files
for the years 1898 to 1896, incIus-
i've, and tell how often during those
wears he made mention Of the diff
fculty local shippers were having
in securing freight cars; and while
he is about it, let him state how
often he referred to this trouble
during 1897.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29
x.nrtEy TIaufE.

II suppose" said the amateur bot
artist, that orchards are the most eX-
pensive plants in the world.'
II am not SO sure of that" replied Mr..
Dinwiddie II have seen the assertion
that $500. 900 600 is invested in electric
tight plants in this country. Pitts
hurgh Chronicle.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29

THE one and Il half millions of
dollars sent to Europe through the
postal money order department as
Christmas presents, is an indica-
ton that the people in this country
are getting back to something like
their former prosperity.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29

LA AMI
ACCIDENT
INSURANCE
Fidelity Mutual Aid ASH
l osAN FRACIsCO, CAL.
For Five Gents Per Day
Will pay, according to the hazard q
occupation, from 81 to S25 week, wAaA
unable to work through being hnEt
accidently.
Will pay, if you are accidently kals,
S2O8 to $3.50.
Will pay SO week when you -
sick and unable to work.
Will pay 800 for funeral expeuS12
Will pay, If you lose hand and enue
or both feet or both hand, Sl38 t. oo12
IF INSURED,
| You cannot lose all your incene W1lGD
you are sick or disabled by accident
Absolute protection t. the MemhaS
upon paying S. life membership Tee 1nd
dues of 81 so per month.
The Fidelity Mutual Aid AsSoola13an
is pre-eminently the largest and
strongest Accident and Health AAD-
citation in the United States.
| 1t has the required fcasl, depooes
with the States of California and Nh
rouri, which, together with an a0R1o
seserve fund and large assets, make ftS
certificate an absolute guarantee a
the solidity CT its protection 10 ~
members.
A two-thirds policy costs 81 pr
month dues.
A one-third policy costs e1-50 pr
quarter dues.
Reliable agents wanted. Write
CHAS. w. SHIELDS,
Sole Agent, Washington County,
Potosi, ks.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29

II am afraid" said the optiuist re
suctantly, that the flying machine our
friend talks about is a mere fancy"
NO" replied the sheptic, ''it isn't
even that. have heard of such thing
as a fight of fancy."-Wasl. 1gton
Star.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29

THE revenue from the Dingley
law produced n surplus for the
month just closing, and the pros
poets are that it will soon make a
like showing every month the year
arn,,u1
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29

Our foreign trade is increasing
to such an extent that it looks like
the Dingley tariff had secured Il
tail-hold upon the markets of the
world.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29

IT was q rnerrier Christmas than
the people had had since the year
'92, when Democratic gloom en-
shrOuded this country.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-12-29
S1.OO Per Hnnun.
The reports from Alaska ineh-
cate that the K!ondikers are enjoy
ing cold comfort.

WHEN the ''powers> get through
with John Chinaman he will feel
somewhat cut up.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14

RECIPROCITY is not contradiction
of the protective policy. 1t is logi-
cal expansion of protection because it
is free-trade of dissimilar products
only. The protective-reciprocity plan
not only protects what we produce, but
secures in return for the free admis-
sion into this country of articles which
we do not produce markets in foreign
lands at favorable rates that are not
accorded to our customers there. The
protective features of reciprocity are
easily discerned when it is remembered
that while our own custom houses exact
protective taxes on European imports
that are similar to our own products
the custom houses of countries with
which we make reciprocity treaties
prevent equal competition from Europe
in those countries with our exports
Chicago Times-Herald.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14
A BUSINESS MORALITY.

1t is not to be doubted that in vast
business system like that of the United
States there is some dishonesty; but as
a general proposition, it is safe to as
sert that business men of all classes are
guided by the rules of integrity and
morality. The present conditions of
trade are such that there is little or no
chance for success to be achieved by
crooked and disreputable methods.
A man may thrive for a time in that
way, but he is sure to fail at last.
Things are somehow so arranged that
in the long run his sins find him out,
and his ill-gotten gains are taken from
him, as if through the operation of a
natural law. This has been so often il
troversy about it. There is no fact
better settled by practical experience
and commercial history than the one
represented by the familiar proverb,
Honesty is the best policy" 1t pays
to do business according to the
fundamental doctrines of morality: it
is more profitable to be upright and
straightforward than to be otherwise.
The testimony of all truly successful
business men is to this effect. They
will tell you that no man is sufficiently
resourceful in slippery expedients to
meet the competition of those who
conduct their affairs with strict
adherence to the highest standards of
truth, fairness and propriety. The
value of u good name, reputation for
morality, is well understood by these
men, and they guard it with the great
est care.-Globe. Democrat
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14
His Youth Restored.

A remarkable case exists in the
village of Tuckerf, in kankakee
county, Mo-, in the person of John
Adams This man is So years old.
Until recently he was bald, toothless
and almost blind. He can now see as
we'll as ever, has cut several teeth and
his hair has grown out again. The
new hail. is dark brown, his eyes are
bright and clear, and at first glance be
looks like man of 40. The brown
hair and bright eyes seem to emphasize
the wrinkles, and his cuticle looks like
parchment.
Mr. Adams now has an idea that new
skin will come and the wrinkles disap-
pear. He is enjoying excellent health,
and believes he has many years yet to
live. Mr.. Adams weighs 1913 pounds,
is ) feet 9 inches tail and his shoulders
are but little stopped. He drinks no
coffee, nor alcoholic stimulants, and
for the past ten years he has been ris-
ing regularly at $50 2. M, summer and
winter, and walking distance of two
miles to his sons for breakfast
Mr.. Adams mustache and beard are
just beginning to turn gray, and do not
appear to have been affected by the re-
juvenating influences.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14
II. VI. -. Terrible.

H. NJ. S. Terrible, the frst-class
cruiser, had her trials over % mile
course off the Cornish coast recently.
The speed developed showed an aver
age %! knots an hour, beating, 1t IS
claimed, the record of every war vessel
afioat. The Terrible was launched at
Glasgow in 1895 and she is equipped
with forty-eight boilers of the Belle
vile water tube type.
This great ship was sheathed with
steel and is of H. 200 tons displace-
ment. Her length is 500 feet and her
beam II feet. while the maximum draft
i p feet. She has twin screw propel-
lOrs and is provided with an indicated
horsepower of %, 900. She is rated as
protected cruiser, the armored decks
extending over the whole length of the
ship. In its thickest part it is four in
ches and tapers to three inches at the
end. The coal capacity is 5000 tons,
the armored deck being associated with
infinitely sub-divided coal bunkers.
The complement of officers and men
provided is $40. The twin screws are
eachithree blades, nineteen feet six in
ches in diameter. Both screws rotate
inwardly which is the reverse of the
ordinary practice. The ships arma-
ment consist of sixteen twelve Founders,
twelve three Founders, nine machine
guns, two light guns for boats and five
torpedo tubes. The speed of the y nited
States cruiser Columbia on her trip
was - 2-10 knots an hour.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14
BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR '97.

Looking over the nation as a whole,
outside of the gold producing regions,
the year closed with record of apathy
and shrinkage. But there are much
better reasons than anything in the
political situation for the hope that
1897 will mark the fulfillment of i'm
proved business conditions. The bal
ance of trade, which implies that the
country is paying its debts, decreasing
it's obligations abroad and thus
strengthening it's credit has been
heavily in our favor during 1896. The
net result is stated in round numbe
at $50, 900, 600, vast sum on the right
side of our commercial ledger. 1t
indicates that spirit of economy
very largely enforced-has been abroad
for some months, that travel in for
eign parts is decreasing and that the
outside market for our great agrlcul-
tural products. is in better conditionthan
since 1882. In San Francisco, where the
daily papers are engaged with the pen
and pencil in promoting charity funds
for the dependent poor, the board of
trade points to wheat exports this fall of
S3S, 000,0 900, a figure which more than
doubles the output of the mines. This
money belongs TO the farmer primarily
part of it will remain with the
middlemen in the city, but all of 1t will
fructify trade, enabling the small coun-
try dealer at a thousand points to pay off
his bills and start over with reinforc-
ed credit.
It is felt that the statistical position
of silver is so strong-with deceased
output in the United States-that an
honest effort at international bimetal-
ism-which Cleveland did not give us
must result in some good At any
event it can do no harm, and may spur
Russia and other fat nations to enter
the market at once to procure the sill
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14

The hearings of VIM. Grice, f. a.
Austin, w. Z. Hawkins and Arthur NJ.
Finlay, agents of the WaterS-Pierce
Oil company, who are charged with
violating the antitrust law Of Texas.
were begun before Judge Swayne of
the federal court, at Dallas on Tuesday.
The court room was well filled with
spectators and several promine ut law
yers were in attendance. Judge Geo.
Clark of Waco and j. d Johnson of
ST. Louis appeared as counsel OF the re-
lators and Attorney General Crane and
Hon. Cullen F. Thomas
of Waco represented the state.
The defendants were indicted in Nc
Lehman county over two years ago Ga
Dec. 9 last they sued out writs of
habeas corpus before Judge Swayne,
who set Jan. i for the hearings to be-
gin. The case was opened by Judge
Clark at O'Clock this afternoon. He
presented long petition for the rela-
tors, making the allegation that the
state had never seemed willing to bring
the cases to trial and the relators were
unjustIy deprived of their liberties.
The petition attacked the constitution
atty of the antitrust law and alleged
that it con fiicted with the Fourteenth
amendment to the federal constitution
which gives to every man equal rights
before the law. Mr.. Thomas read the
states answer. 1t was strong paper
and took opposite grounds to that held
by Judge Clark. The state essayed to
prove that it was not the states fault
that the defendants had never been
tried and that the REALTORS had several
times had their trials postponed. The
petition closed with the prayer that re-
lators be remanded back to the custody
of the sheriff of McLennan county.
After some slight skirmishing Judge
Clark began mis- argument. He
arraigned the state administration for
passage of such an act as the antitrust
law, and claimed that it Disseminated
against citizens in favor of others.
Much of this part of his speech was
construed as being of a political nature.
Clark spoke about an hour and half
and will resume his argument at 10
o'clock tomorrow. Attorney General
Crane, it is said. is primed for the effort
of his life. He will likely answer
Clarke's political utterances in his
reply. Judge Swayne is called upon to
decide whether the law in question
conflicts with the federal constitution.
He is expected to write lengthy
opinion at the conclusion OF the bearing,
which will last day or two longer.
The hearing is the talk of the town
and is looked upon as an event of
interest throughout the cOuntry.-Dal-
las News.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14

yer needed for the gradual replacing Of
their paper currencies. In Russia, the
estimated requirement is $500, OOo,O 600,
equal to eight times the present yearly
output of this country. Should bar sill
yer advance to seventy-fve cents per
ounce by the first of May, as some Lon
don authorities predict, a resumption
of silver exploration would mark the
summer Of 1897, causing increased &C
tivity in this and the neighboring stat
es, with a wider demand for labor, for
idle money in the banks, for machin-
cry and supplies. News.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14
Sam Mas, one of the landmarks of
Galveston, is dead, at the age of 81.

Just full of mprovements-Dr. Pier
ce's Pleasant Pellets. TO begin with,
they're the smallest, and the easiest to
take. They're tiny, sugar coated,
anti-bilious granules, scarcely larger
than mustard seeds. Every child is
ready for them. Then after they're
taken, instead of disturbing and shock
ing the system, they act in a mild, easy
and natural way. There's no chance
for any reaction afterward. Their
help lasts. Constipation, indiee stiOn,
bilious attacks, sick or bilious head
aches, and all arrangements of the
liver, stomach, and bowels are
promptly relieved and permanently
cured.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14
Religious R4nCOr.

A dispatch to the n. Y. Herald from
Conssantiuople says: Official advice5 re-
ceived here from Jerusalem show that
there has been further trouble among
the worshippers at the church OF the
Holy Sepulchre. 1t appears that the
Roman Catholics were opposed TO
mem bers cf the orthodox Greek church
entering the church by a certaio door
on the evt: OF Jan. 8. the day obs rved
by the orthodox church It's Christmas.
Tie latter insisted upon their rights
to enter and the result was that the
two factions became involved in a
serious fight, which did not end until
the Turkish authorities interviewed TO
restore order. Some of the combat
ants were badly injured, but it is not
known if any were killed.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14
A FORECAST.
What May be Done at the Coming Ses-
sion of New Mexican Legislature.

SANTA FEE. Jan. 10.-The New Next
co legislature will meet next week and
from what can be CLEANED in advance,
there will be no more bills introduced
the first week than have ever been
introduced in the first week OF any
previous session OF the Legislature OF
this territory. There will be no county
division bill, except it be bill pro
viding for the division Of counties in
general, can be passed. One of the
first bills to be introduced Will be d
bill providing for a radical reduction
in the fees and salaries of officials, al d
this will have such a strong backing
that it will be holly useless for Off
cials to attempt to defeat II. The
Commercial club of Albuquerque is
taking very active interest in this
matter and its members will be beard
from. An old resident of Grant county
has a bill already for introduction
which will go through practically
without opposition. The bill IS j. e.
Currents bill in relation to public
printing. The bill provides that no
shall not have been published for at
least year, shall receive
any public printing, and that
such publications in papers
which have not been established at
least year, shall be void and of no
effect. MIR. Curren was resident OF
Grant county for four or five years in
the early eighties. He established the
Deming Headlight in 1881, and ran it
uutil 1885, when he sold out to A. G.
Lowry. Since he left Deming he has
b en- engaged in the newspaper bus
mess in Hillsboro and at Clayton, in
Union county. There will be bills for
the improvement of the public school
system, for reform in elections, for a
reduction in the number of county Of
ficials, and it Is not improbable that a
bill for the compilation of the laws of
the territory. The laws have not been
com piled since 1884
There is a great deal of speculation
concerning the organization OF the
legislature, and up to this time, there
is nothing to indicate that there will
not be a tie in both houses. Very few be
certificates have been filed with the
secretary of the territory and when
the remainder of these certificates are
filed there may be a surprise in store
for both parties. The members will
sworn in by the secretary of the ter
ritory unless Delegate Catron's bill,
which provides that the members may
swear in each other, becomes law this
week, of which there appears to be alb
sOlutely no ospect.-COrrespo
of Silver CITY Eagle.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14

The Sing Sing plan of putting con-
victs in military training in order to
relieve enforced idleness might ulti-
mately rebound to the public welfare
is generally developed. There are
many thousands OF idle convicts in the
various state penitentiaries who are
neither required nor, permitted to work
and if Uncle Sam is to enter upon the
Don Quijote business of going to the
relief of all the distressed or oppressed
people of the earth an army of cOnVicts
trained to the use of arms would make
a handy lot of Sanch PanzaS.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14
Co.Operatiye Iron Works.

at Braddock, Pa and It lesteaC,
Duquesne and PIttshurg. aud employ 8
of the Westinghouse works at Tutt.e
Creek and Wilmerding are forming a
joint stock company 10 build a s., 900, 0CO
iron and steel plant at Port Angeles.
on Puget sound. The company has
been incorporated under the Washing
ton laws.
Twelve hundred prominent mill
workers have in the past fOrtuig t
subscribed for about 81 ,0OO,O GOO worth
of stock. The plant will employ 1000
meu. and will cover thirty acres of
ground. The work on the mill buildings
will be started in April, ard the sub
scription books will remain open until
that time
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14

The Chicago Tribune makes it a
habit every New Years day to compile
and publish q statement OF the suicides
and murders in the United States. The
report OF suicides for the year 1896 was
6510 an average OF twenty day, against
$3.50 in 1892, and 2O4O in 1890, while the
number of murders in 1896 was 10.625,
against 1870 in 1890.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14

OUR creed embraces AN untarnished
national credit, adequate revenues for
the use of the government, protection
to labor and enterprise, preservation
of the home market and a reciprocity
that will stand our foreign markets.
VIM Mckinley.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14

The land court at Santa Fee has ad-
journed to sit again at the same place
on the fourth day of May. No term
was set for Arizona, but the chief JUS
tice was authorized to call the court to-
gether in Tucson at any time before
the date mentioned. The court is
waiting to see what will be the decis-
ion of the United States supreme court
in the Arizona cases tried heretofore.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14

Rowls, of Hollands, Va, has to saw
below. will remember their own exper-
fence under like circumstances: Last
winter l had la grippe which left me in
10 - state of health. / tried numerous
remedies, none OF which did me any
good, until | was induced to try bottle
of Chamberlain 5 Cough Remedy. The
first bottle of it so far re lieved me that
was enabled to attend to my work.
and the second bottle effected cure -
For sale at % and 30 cents per bottle
by all druggists.