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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-12-18

When we advertise that We will guar
antee DR.. Kings New Discovery,
Electric Bitters, Bucklen's Arnica Salve
or DR.. Kings New Life Pills, it mean
that we are authorized by the proprle.
tors to sell these remedies on a positive
guarantee, that if purchaser is not salts
fled with results, we will refund the pur.
chase price. These medicines have been
sold on this guarantee for many years
and there could be no more conclusive
evidence of thew great merit. Ask about
them and give them a trial. Sold at
G. H. Woods drug store.
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"LDr. Feuner's Dyspepsia C.re."
as the name implies, ia simply for Dys.
pepsia Or Indigestion. 1t should be gu
perior to the general run Of preparations
and prescriptions because prepared by q
physician Of many years study and OK.
perience, whose writings on medical
questions are accepted as authorities
II not satisfied after using one bottle
your money will lie refunded by Frank
Smith of Madison.
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MEDAL, SCHOOL, LODGE.
Anti Saloon League Oontest-Whittiel
Birthday Celebrations in the Schools
The Good Templars.

A large audience was present at the
opera house last night to listen to the
Antl-Saloon League medal contest. The
opening selections by the juvenile band
were we'll rendered and enthusiastically
received. Miss Clark, president OF the
Us, presided, and in a pleasing manDer
introduced the speakers of the evening.
Every one did we'll, and the judges, Mrs.
|Tolles. D. d. Holdridge and Rev. Mr..
Waters, had no easy task to decide who
was entitled to the medal. According
to their total markings, the medal was
awarded to Miss Mabelle Ashton. With
a few appropriate remarks, the medal
was presented by Supt. McClenon.
While the decision was being made, the
audience was entertained by a very pleas
ling recitation by Regina Brennan and a
song by Colletta Fitzgerald. Each re-
Ice. we'd a hearty encore to which they
responded in a charming manner, The
Exercises we're varied with music. The
solo and encore by Miss Christianson
were especially pleasing.
Whittier's birthday was celebrated
yesterday in the High school by appro
pirate exercises, and music was furnished
by the orchestra.
The Model department of the State
Normal school had a pleasing Whittier
exercise yesterday afternoon which was
largely attended by parents of the little
folks, and a generous collection wa
taken up for the Children's Home al
Sioux Falls.
The I. O. G. T. lodge will mold a regu
lar meeting in the parlors of the Presby
Iterian church, Monday evening, Decem
Der 20, the Anniversary meeting, a
which all Good Templors are cordial,
invited to be present. The program
will be given as follows: Cornet solo
G. D. Yates anniversary GRAFTON, r. b
McClenon; select reading, "Our Require
ments OF Reform" Alice jerks; music
Messrs. Gilbert and Stacy; recitation
"Who Stood by the LODGE" Mary Bliss
select reading, "What it Costs" Franz
Palmer; music, Eloise Gilmore; characte
! sketch, VIM. McGrath; select reading
Miss Hutchinson; music, Messrs. Gilber
and Stacy.
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ii OF SUBSCRIPTION
TO ADVERTISERS.

IKE DAILY LBArER makes a special feature OF
furnishlr Information concerning the advants gee
and resources of the city of Madison end Of the
st tie ut lsrge emitting it to the patronage ofad-
1e.ti-ers of every class.
:. T.. TAB Pr oprletor
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MORSE & nUNRO.

serious as we'll as 'big fun" at that
initiation.
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Kidney or BLADDER Troubles

For rent, six room house, stable and
two acres of land. CHAs. b. KENNEDY.
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One Minute Coug'1 Cure cures quickly.
That's what you want!
FRANK SMITH
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T" you are looking for some
thing fine, and also bar
gains in China, Glass
ware and Crockery, go to G. A.
.kELLEY'S. He has one of the
finest assortments In town.
~
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When bilious or ccstlve eat a Cascaret
candy cathar:io. cure guaranteed, 1Oc. 25c
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-22

Atch. Top. & s.Fe RR gen As s6h s6A
Atch:, Top. q 5. Fe adj gen As. 5S% 50
Brooklyn El LIST Trust Go. eff 6s. 80 SO
Cent RR N. J. gen mtg IS. -. .112h 113
Chi, Il. !. & Pac ext IS. ..... .1Q5M 106
Ches. & Ohio gen & AS, ....... 70I5 so
nrie LIST con prior lien As. ....... 81 s1h
Manhattan RR con mtg g 5s. .93A "a
Mo-, Kan. & Tex. LIST mtg As. :. SO s6A
Mo-, Kan. & Tex. mtg rs. 80, 61h ca
Mobile q Ohio, gen mtg As. -. 71% 72A
N. Y, Ont. & West. gen. mtg as 96% OF
n. Y, Sus. & West gen mtg 5s.. 81
Northern Pac. prior gen mtg As. 903s 905s
Nothern rae, gen lien 5s...... 59M 59@
Oregon Short Line gen. 5s. $50. 92 92H
Pi 4 Read gen mtg 4s,,... s4h SAN
Southern Ry LIST gen & IS. 91b 92I
St L. & South. Is, mtg 5s.,.. 73h 74H
Tex, & Pac. list mtg 5s. ... 95b ne
Wabash RR list mtg 5s.. 1O7T 107lb
Wabash RR I'd mtg g 5s........ 7s& 10
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tive crust that checks evaporation and
retains the moisture in the subsoil.
Owing to the long roots, cotton plants
strictly require irrigation only once
every other year, although corn ana
wheat must receive it at each planting
Cotton fields Of the Tlahualilo belt after
the spring irrigation resemble tracks Of
newborn rye, so modest are they in
their size of plants, but the same fields
after the fall irrigation, when they have
blossomed in snowy white, show cotton
plants so tall as almost to conceal from
sight a man on horseback. 1t is said
that the cotton during those few
months can almost be seen to grow.
At all events, the finest cotton in the
country is now being produced upon
tracts of land, leagues wide, which only
few years ago We're deserts of sand.
The question Of fuel at Tlahualilo is
an important one, as at present more
than three hundred horse power are in
constant use and the amount is steadily
increasing. The main supply of fuel is
from the mezquite brush cleared from
the new lands as the process of ditch.
ing advances, and the hull of the cotton
seed also makes hot, quick fuel for
some of the larger stationary engines.
The wheat straw and cotton bushes are
utilized for brick burning. The engines
and fixed machinery as we'll as all the
agricultural machines are operated by
peon labor, these native workmen being
found quick and efficient in acquiring
mechanical knowledge. During the pc
riod of greatest activity, when the cot
ton crop is coming in, the water service
by irrigation is calculated at about SIX
hundred and sixty cubic feet per sec
ond, a remarkable Improvement over
the waterless, rainless condition that
prevailed but a few years ago. The
company during the cotton crop season
run their gins and presses and oil mills
day and night, and keep up large cleo
trio light plant for that purpose. The
products Of the hacienda are shipped
direct from the station of Zaragoza; the
cotton, wheat, corn and soap being
marketed in this republic, and the oil
cake being shipped to the United
States. Most of the machinery and i'm
plements employed are of American ORR
gin, and their aggregate is very large,
there being at present some seven
thousand American ploughs of different
types upon the estate.
| A branch line, recently constructed
from the Mexican International rail-
road at Matamoros across the plains to
| the central Tlahualilo property, has
made it possible to extend cultivation
to the remainder of the basin, and it is
estimated that by the end of 1899 nearly
two hundred square miles will be under
! ditch and producing Republics.
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METHODS OF THE JAPANESE


An American manufacturer, writing
from Japan, says that those alarmists
who would make the world believe that
the Japanese can do everything don't
know what they are talking about, and
that the people of the Flowery Land,
unless they change their entire nature,
or, at all events, their methods, can
never become formidable commercial RI
walls with any civilized power. The real
fact is that the "Japs' do nothing; they
only half do it, and therein lies the
cause of their failure.
The Jap" thinks of nothing but the
present; of what he can make now, and
how, by making his commodities little
inferior, he can add few more cents to
his profit If he has to pay more for
his labor the idea of economy, or the
bold declaration that he can no longer
sell at the original price, never strikes
him, but he extends the whole of his in
genuity in trying to diminish the quail
ty without any loss in the appearance.
There is no such thing as standard
quality. You are never sure of getting
the quality you are asked to pay for. So
much is this so in Japan that man
seldom buys an article without unwrap-
ping and examining it on the spot. The
correspondent continues:
THE Japanese mind is so small that
it is difficult to weigh it with American
scales; in fact, it may be said that it is
made up of trifles, and it is the atten-
tior-the labored attention--the Jap
gives to these trifles which makes him
incapable of ever becoming anything
more than a unit in whatever he may
be concerned in. AS an illustration of
what I mean, I will give examples
which are of daily occurrence. You
want to buy an article, and you, ask
how much it is. The answer is, say,
one cent. Then you ask how much the
articles are by the dozen, fully expect
ing that you will get them for ten cents.
You are not a little amazed when the
merchant tells you thirteen cents the
dozen. You get mad, call the man a
fool, and insist that you ought to get a
reduction by taking a quantity. Not so
with the Jap; that is not his way of
doing business. If you take one he rea-
sons that is one cent, but if you take a
dozen he will have to count them, and
then it will be thirteen cents. 1t is the
same with the manufacturer. You
give him an order for a hundred of q
kind, and then wish to make it a thou
sand. Immediately he demands an adj
vance in the price. Should he, however,
reluctantly agree to take the increased
order at the original price, you will
probably get the first hundred articles
fairly up to sample, but as the delivery
goes on the quality is sure to fall off.
And this smallness is not confined to
small people. 1t permeates the whole
country, and one of the leading banks
advertises that it allows 4.3S5 per cent
interest on current accounts and 5.115
per cent. on savings bank deposits -
Boston Transcript.
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centuries old, and stands in the imme-
date locality. Having an unpreten-
tious exterior, it is entered by q long,
narrow passage, where two persons
cannot walk abreast; and the contrast
between the noise and hustle of the
street and the quietude and repose of
the coffee-room is striking. 1t is a
large chamber, with oaken beams on
the ceiling, and looks into Hare Court,
with its trees and its conduit once a
pump, which, according to Charles
Lamb, yielded refreshing water, good
drink with or without brandy Hid
den on the north by Butterworth's, the
law publisher, perhaps the oldest shop
in Fleet street, and on the west by the
quaint wooden Elizabethan houses at
Middle Temple Gate, formerly known
as "the old post-house," where it is said
the business of law-stationer has
been carried on, as now, for two hun
dred years, it is apt to be ignored by
the passing wayfarer.
Though for some years Dicks has
been conducted as a modern restau-
rant, knot of literary men and Tenn
plars, with q reverence for the past,
have frequented the place; but they
will assemble there no longer, for the
door has been finally closed, and the
ancient ediflce will speedily be RACED to
the ground to make way for the wants
of an adjoining assurance office This
corner of Fleet street is exceptionally
crowded with remarkable memories of
the past At No. /, next to Temple Bar,
stood the old Child's Bank, with it's
sign of the marigold, graphically de-
scribed by the pen of Charles Dickens
as Telson's in the Tale of Two Cities;"
and adjoining that the Devils Tavern,
with a sign representing Saint Dustan
tweeking the devil by the nose, where
the famous Apollo club, with Ben JON
son as chairman, and Shakespeare and
other great men of that age foregath-
cred. Towards the end of the last CEN
tury the Devils Tavern was pulled
down, and it's site occupied by Child's
Place, which in recent years again
gave way to the fine edifice now occu-
pied by the celebrated bankers-Lon-
don Telegraph,
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A MONSTER COTTON RANCH.

1t is in Mexico and Covers One Hun
+ dred and Seventy Five Square Miles
How the Dry. Beds of Extinct Lakes
Were Made Fertile by Irrigation-A
Plantations Canals, Railroads, Elec-
trio Lights and Telephones-The Most
Improved Agricultural Tools.
What is probably the largest individ-
ual cotton plantation in the world is To-
Gated in the republic of Mexico, within
the Tlahualilo cuenca or cotton belt
that lies between the watershed of the
Rio Grande and the Bolson de Mapimi.
There are one hundred and seventy-fve
square miles under cultivation, covered
with the snowy blossoms for miles.
The great plain of northern Mexico, in
which rests this immense cotton-grow-
ing district, embraces almost the entire
states of Chihuahua and Coahuila.
This immense plain is four hundred
miles in width by six hundred in length,
and although broken here and there by
mountain ranges, it maintains gene
raj level of about four thousand feet
above the sea. The Bolson de Maplmi
has much the same formation as the
basin of the Great Salt Lake of Utah,
and is one Of watersheds, while the 9TH
son receives the drainage of all the
eastern slopes of the Durango sierras
and the western slope of the Coahuila
range, but it possesses no outlet. Hence
the rivers melt into little lakes, whose
waters are lost by evaporation in the
dry season.
Like broad sword of silver, the riv-
er Nazas pierces the Mapimi Bolson.
III which n n of aY,1,y
three hundred miles from it's source to
where it is lost in the shadows and
swamps of the dusty desert, is very
1nischievous river, and during the rainy
season it frequently overf1ows its
banks. Sixty or seventy years ago the
Nazas discharged it's waters into a Sc
ries of extensive lagoons, occupying
what is now known as the Laguna dis
trict of Durango and Coahuila. About
that time phenomenal rainfall so
overcharged the bed of the Nazas as to
cause it to open a new course, and leave
the lagoons into which the river had
drifted, and which were known as the
4 Cayman Lagoons, thirty miles to one
Z side In the course of years these Ia
goons were converted into mezquite
wilderness, almost dead level and COM
4 posed of a deposit of the finest detritus
of unknown depth. This desert waste
Nof hot drifting sand, under a sky of
brass, ran north and south surrounded
ssby a para,lelogram of mountains The
Aarea thus comprised was about two
hundred and ten square miles of purely
vegetable loan locally known as the
AXE of TlahualiIo. There was nothing
ITO break the vision on the broad desert
sxva etc bu+ tho scrawnv meZullite hush
les. about whose roots swarmed the rat
tlesnake and it's strange companion, the
prairie dog, possibly the only living
things that could exist under tropical
sun and far from water. Such was the
icuenca or bowl, chosen about six years
ago for the establishment of the great
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Government Bonds.
Closing


The following quotations on bonds are
furnished by Body, Mcclellan & Co., bank
ers, 81 Broadway, New York, and 81 Or
ange street, New Haven:
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BLUE PEOPLE BRIGHT.

The business mans FRIEND Bicola Pills,
are scientific remedy and the only perfect
cure for the diseases of the nervous system.
a remedy adapted for the banker, lawyer,
doctor, preacher and merchant. While
Blcola Pills are intended for all who are
afflicted with nervous weakness, they are
particularly adapted to women suffering
from weakened condition of the nervous
system. with prostitution, fainteness,. etc.
Bicola Pills give Immediate relief.for
rheumatism, all blood and nervous troubles
discovered and Perfected by THE TURN
ERS, of Philadelphia. THE TURNER'S al
so make
TARzINA-The only ointment for skin
troubles. Cures piles.
TURNER'S LITTLE LIVER TURNER'S
A very small pill. Turns your liver.
Duly appointed agents in New Haven; T.
5. Leete & Co, distributing agents; j. J.
Aliing, D. ]. Brennan, Arthur H; Barnes,
g. ID. Farovid, f. A. Gessner, b. Hewitt &
Co.. Hotchklss Drug Co., p. Healy's mar
macy, The Hutchinson Pharmacy. Hull,s
Corner Drug Store, W. p Keegan; A. r.
Leighton, Thos J. Lynch, Loves Pharma-
cy, l. H. Levy. Chas. f. Messenger, Willis
!. Mix, s. L. Salisbury. T. i. Schurman,
L. n. Sperry. s. H Williams. z. Wadewitz.
Mon Wed FIR n N
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THE LAST OF DICKS COFFEE
HOIrSE

Dicks Coffee House-an interesting
remnant of old Fleet street-will soon
disappear. There may be doubts
whether it is the actual building where,
in the last century, DR.. johnson and the
wits, poets and politicians assembled,
for within the last forty years this
historic quarter has seen many struc-
tural changes. But if the hostel is not
the famous original it is about three
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Itchlnr. Rurning. oreepinr. Crawlinc

itching, Burning, Creeping. Crawling
Skin Diseases relieved in few minutes by
ment relieves instantly and cures letter
Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Eczema, Ulcers
Blotches, and all Eruptions of the Skin. It
Is soothing j, ana a, anie5ing and ACTS Ike
the Scalp, or Rashes during teething time
30 cents a box. Sold by e. A. Gessuer, +.
Hewitt & Ca Of
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Chicago Market.

Chicago, Oct. q, 1907,
Wheat Oct, 9o1sN; Dec, new, OILS; old,
GSo'rn@oct., 3iH; Dec, 25a; May, 291aa77s.
Oats-Oct., 17QIl$; Dec, 1S0l1s; May, 203sb
Pork-Oct., 7,S2; May 1871; Jan, $50,
Lard-Oct,, 437; Dec, 4.40; jan, Abs.
Ribs-Oet, 4.62; Dec, 4.57; Jan, 4.62.
N. Y. Wheat-Dec., 9411a; Jan, 92Ia
N. Y. Corn-Dec., 305s; Jan. 341a
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-13
OCEAN FREIGHTs.

COtton-Market firm; rates quoted are
per 100 pounds: Boston. per bale SIPS;
New York, per bale, 800; PHILADELPHIA
per bale, 500; Baltimore. per bale, SlOO;
Direct-Barcelona 52c; Genoa, soc; Reval,
pc; to Liverpool. via New York, 3Oc: Brc-
men, via New York. 3Sc: Amsterdam. via
New York, BE; Hamburg. via New York
Soc; Genoa, 46c; 81. Petersburg 5sc.
Lumber-By Sail-Freights are steady ct
ruling rates Foreign business Is more
or less nominal. The rates from this and
nearby Georgia ports are quoted at S37Ja
425 for a range-includlng Baltimore and
Portland, Me. Railroad ties, base "A feet
20 Baltimore. l2c, 10 PHILADELPHIA. i3c; to
New York l3lzc. Timber rates. JOcnsi %
higher than lumber rates. To the West
Indies and Windward, nominal: to Rosa
rio. SlZO0Nl3o0; TO Buenos Ayres ana Mon
tevideo, $40 00dii.O0: 20 Rio Janelro sl4O):
20 Spanish and Mediterranean ports. ST. 30
Nli.50. 20 United Kingdom for orders.
nominal for lumber. pounds D. standard
BY Steam-To New York. $3.50; 70 Phil
adelphia, $50; 10 Boston. $50 via New
York; 70 Baltimore. 800
Naval StOrcs-By Sail-The market ls
firm. Large sized. Cork for orders. Gre as
follows ROsin. p, Cd. for barrels OF 80
pounds and per cent. primage. spirits, -
Oh; Genoa rosin, b 3dGf3s 81; Adriatic p
Gin2s 9di South American. rosin. Soc per
barrel OF $50 pounds. Coastwiso- Steam
TO Boston. ne per 100 pounds on rosin, glc
on spirits, 70 New York. roslD. SEC per 100
pounds.
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Money-Good demand at per cent.
Foreign EXchange-The market is
very weak. The following are net Savan-
nah quotations: Commercial demand
S4S4I2; sixty days. A821a; ninety days,
S4S2; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty days,
5.2l Swiss, sixty days, 5.227s; marks, sixty
days, "a 9-16.
Domestic Exchange-Steady Banks are
buying at u per cent. discount and selling
as follows: Up to 49, 10c premium; S25 to
$50 15c premium $50 to 800, zoe premium
$500 and upwards at par.
Securities-Market is fairly active for
Central incomes and Southwestern rail-
road stock
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
3lR per cent bonds of 1880, 1929 bid. -
asked; Georgia 49, per cent, due 1915, 1O2lh
bid. asked; Georgia AZ per cent
bonds, 1915, 1l515 bid. 1862 asked; Georgia
per cent, due 1926, 1l015 bid l12 asked;
South Carolina AS. 1OS bid. 100 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 1O4 bid.
los asked; Augusta 4l2s. 1925, 1922 bid. 1914
asked; Augusta Z per cent, 112 bid 1l3
asked; Augusta 6 per cent, III bid, l12
asked; Columbus 5 per cent, 1881 bid, 1Oi
asked; Macon 6 per cent, 114l5 bid, 116
asked; Macon 4l2s, 1926 10352 bid. 104 asked;
Savannah per cent, quarterly October
coupons. 1898 bid, 40 asked: Savannah
3 per cent, quarterly November coupons.
1898 bid, 10 asked Charleston As, 81 bid,
IS asked
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds.
9 per cent. interest coupons, ll3 bid ia
asked; Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage 8 per cent. gold bonds
due 1884, 1852 bid, LOG asked aud interest:
Central Railroad and Banking Company
collateral gold IS, "a bid % asked; Central
of Georgia railway first MORTGAGE IS, so
year gold bonds ia bid 1l5 asked: Cen
trail Of Georgia railway first consolidation
mortgage 5s. 93i5 bid. 9ii5 asked: Central OF
Georgia railway first preferred incomes.
2Sib bid. 39ia asked; Central Of Georgia
railway. second preferred incomes, "A
bid. Is asked. central Of Georgia railway
third preferred incomes. s bid, So asked
railway. second preferred incomes, 1879
bid, 1ps asked. Central OF Georgia railway
third preferred incomes7iA bld.Sh asked.
Georgia railroad Co. 1910. ll2 bid IA asked.
f05 bid. -- asked, Charlotte. Columbia and
Augusta second mortgage Is, 1i3 bid rs
asked: Georgia Southern and Florida now
5e. g6 bid, 81 asked. South Georgia and
Florida FIRST mortgage e. l02Ia bid 1881
askcd: South Georgia and Florida second
mortgage Is. zoe bid. l3 asked; Ocean
Steamship 3 pcr cent bonds. 1895. 1885,
h.d. iOp. asked; city and subur.
ban railroad nrst mortgage
par cent bonds. SD h.d. 81 ask.
cd. Alabama Midland per cent indorseI
SIS bid gl asked; brunswick ana Western
g. 70 h.d 20 asked South Bound railroad
o. bid Gis asked, southern railway
hanna nrEl preferred aa ll-s BID lD nfK.
81. and Interest. Georgia aga Alabama
fret couaols. bid 10 asked.
Railroad stocks A1eifta nnd Sayan-
common. ies 30. ia asked, .goa,h.