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The morning times., 1897-01-21
Mrs. c1eveland's New Ring.

(From the New York Herald)
The ladies of the Cabinet have just pre-
sented Mrs. Cleveland with a turquoise
ring, which she has sometime fancied. The
souvenir is OF dainty design and valued at
$3.50.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

Mark Hanna has been sounded; and
since such II thing is impossible in his
case or in any otllcr, it is learned that
he is warmly in favor of the election of
Senators by popular vote.
The morning times., 1897-01-21
Getting in Fine Trim.

The Danbury, Conn, woman, who has
slept eleven days, says the Chicago Post,
is probably new woman training herself
to be a policeman.
The morning times., 1897-01-21
They Require Long Girls.

Length in female clerks is required for
some reason by the British postoffice,
which proposes to discharge all girls who
at nineteen are not five feet two tall
The morning times., 1897-01-21

Three men are left in the Senatorship
race in Kansas, and it is understood that
either one OF them would take the office
if sufficiently urged
The morning times., 1897-01-21

It ought not TO be forgotten by the gold
standard advocates that there is a fine
valuable reserve of fifty millions slowed
away in the teeth of American citizens.
The morning times., 1897-01-21
Watterson Warns Democracy.

From the Louisville CourierJournal.)
Go on with your rat-killing, gentlemen.
You may think that it is your turn today.
But it will be truths turn tomorrow. Then
look to it.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

The fight for the collectorship of the
port of New York seems To be mario wing
down To Hon. John Everlasting aIilholland
and Hon. Wilbur Feanaught Wakeman.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

All who desire office under Hon. Chester
Socrates Lord should appeal directly at
the Sun office i'll New York; third floor,
front; don t ring. =
The morning times., 1897-01-21

Our advice to all journals that are adj
vocating new Secretary of Commerce in
the Presidents Cabinet would be, first
catch your commerce.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

to touch Baron RothSchild for his PASS
age home.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

OF course it remains to observe that
Uncle Joe Cannon, the real big gun in the
Illinois Senatorial fight, went off at half
cock
The morning times., 1897-01-21
The Cigarette Habit
in the Capital City

Hundreds of Them" the swell Avenue
vender OF the weed replied. They come
in elegant turnouts and send their footmen
in, and they walk up the Avenue from
the large drygoods houses, and the jew
ellers', and make their own selections
Unquestionably, the ladies who smoke
cigarettes are more numerous every year
every month. The lady who just passed
out told me that she was procuring them
for her sick husband, and L do not wish
to doubt her word Tor the shortest mo-
ment. but she bought cigarettes which
contain only a pinch of Turkish tobacco,
and two or three puffs OF smoke, and paid
So hundred for them"
The morning times., 1897-01-21

Senator Hoar won't be obliged after
all to object to Senator-elect william
Lorrimer, OF Illinois, because he WAS once
a street car conductor.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

The train time between st. Louis and
the Mexican line has been shortened to
twelve hours, but Canada is still much
nearer and much more practicable.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

and let it be considered settled, then, that
in certain recent debate of considerable
length the noes have IT,
The morning times., 1897-01-21

The harrow trust, OF Pennsylvania, is
said to be turning a good, clean furrow
these days.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

The critics need not feel so big IL John
Sherman has forgotten more than they ever
knew.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

Senator Thurston declares that there
are things that are worse than war. Per
haps he has been shopping with Mrs.
Thurston lately
The morning times., 1897-01-21

Major Mckinley is working his great
Cabinet trick, YOU observe, with no mus
tache to deceive you.
The morning times., 1897-01-21
DELINQUENT DISTRICT TAXES


A very elaborate and comprehensive
bill, to replace existing laws and to pro-
vide for the collection OF delinquent taxes
in the District, was favorably reported and
has passed the House. Ifit becomes law
the District Commissioners will annually
prepare a pamphlet containing list Of
delinquent taxpayers in arrears on the
first day Of July OF each year, and in the
March following advertise the fact of
such publication, which taxpayers may
secure on application, and fix day for
sale. At the sale, if nobody else shall bid
the amount OF taxes, etc, ON any given
piece of property it will be knocked down
to the District for such amount. Equity
OF redemption will run two years. Pur-
chasers of tax titles vii, not receive deeds,
and persons redeennng will not receive
release until all arrearages, costs, and
penalties have been paid in fun. Tax
certificates, issued to purch asers. Will
carry 1 8 per cent per annum, and 10 per
cent interest additional on amount Of
taxes annually.
There are other provisions of interest to
property holders, but the foregoing are
the most important.
When the bill reaches the Senate il is
possible that amendments may be offered
in connection with the judicial powers
it confers upon the Commissioners. In
this and some other directions the measure
deserves the attention and study of citi-
zens who may be interested.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

SIT is now almost that swell dinner is
incomplete without cigarettes for the
ladies. We constantly have orders for
dinners and read the next day of the fine
people present, and of the beautiful COS
tunes and the flowers and the music
but not Of the cigarettes. This will come
in time, though. And it is not so long,
either, that we shall have to wait. The
cigarette for ladies' habit is growing as
fast as the bicycle habit did ten years ago.
In another ten years you win think no
more OF cigarettes in feminine lips than
you do now OF bicycle short skirts.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

The mischievous Massachusetts Republi-
Democratic refrain, common formerly i'll
the Bay State; Man wants but little here
below, nor wants that little Long
The morning times., 1897-01-21

The only possessions now left to Spain
besides Cuba are Puerto Rico, in the West
Indies, and the Philippines, in Oceanica.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

1t is a great pity when so many legis-
latures are electing United States Sena-
tors that there was not a chance some
where for Gen Lew Wallace.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

The popular fashion in Washington ties
bunch of five or six cigarettes together
with little ribbon. The ribbon and some
times the cigarettes themselves tear the
monogram OF the lady who gives the din
ner. The ribbons are saved for coIeC-
tions much as book plates are. a coIIec-
ton Containing all the Washington mono
grammed ribbons would number five hun
dred, may be.
Certainly sir. You think you would
prefer the kind I called your attention
to? Two dollars. il you please"
The morning times., 1897-01-21

1.-THE favorite brands come in little cloth
covered ornamental boxes which would
hold forty ordinary cigarettes perhaps.
They contain an even hundred quaffs of
delight. Each cigarette has a small mouth
piece, and each, with the mOuthpiece. is
two inches long. They are OF the thickness
of the slender little white corsage pencils
that pretty women sometimes affect. A
woman with dimples and bright eyes with
such a dainty smoke between her lips is
quite bewitching, | am told"
The morning times., 1897-01-21

Hon. Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, will
long be remembered as the stiffest hand
in poker in recent contemporary politics.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

the ashes that we must soon put upon our
headsl"
The morning times., 1897-01-21

The Detroit Free Press thinks it strange
that Major Mckinley should still be looking
around for Cabinet officers when Hon
Julius Caesar Burrows has just been at
Canton.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

If Hon. John Sherman is looking about
for real spry assistant Secretary OF
State there is Hon. Josh Quincy, OF Boston.
The morning times., 1897-01-21
Is 1T DOG IN MANGER?

Without here discussing the merits or
the question of engine ering feasibility,
or the other one, OF the propriety OF govern
ment financial Endorsement or direct aid
TO the enterprise. 1t is sufficiently apparent
that a combination of vast interests is
arrayed against the splendid project, and
that its success under American auspices
appears probleH1atc, to say the least.
The great trans-contincntal railway sys-
TENS OF the country, and all their east
and west freight connections, appear to
be opposed to it. Their moving spirits
think that they can kill it and then in
woke the Monroe doctrine to prevent its
construction on British or other foreign
account.
The English financial interest, which
owns the United States in even greater
degree than do the railways, desires, it is
said, to slaughter the bill and the American
Canal idea, that the way may be left
clear for British capital and British con-
troll. With practical dominance over the
present Congress, and the expecta-
ton of like power over the ensuing one,
the prospect seems an easy one to the
exponents OF this bi-national governing
syndicate.
Weakly modified against these obstruc-
ing and determined forces, there are only
the elements OF national sentiment and
pride among the people at large, and the
agricultural and commercial interests of
the Pacific coast country. An American
canal, under American guardianship, would
establish the United States in a Position
the wise utilization OF which would render
it the first power of civilization. An
American canal would enable our Pacific
States to compete in Eastern and foreign
markets with the wines, fruits, and other
products Of the Mediterranean and the
West Indies, and with the grain and lumber
OF the Central Western and Atlantic regions.
But these considerations are of bit little
weight when cast in the balance against
the traffic interests of the railways, and
the Unsuitable appetite OF the syndicate.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

II patrons of The Times, whether
I'm the city or suburbs, who do not
get a prompt and regular delivery
will notify the office, the irregu-
tion. Telephone No. 337.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

''Yes, they buy them ten dollars worth
at time. They smoke them incessantly.
Many of them don't even try to hide this
new fad of theirs any more.
"Of course, not all women cigarette
smokers are ladies any more than all men
who enjoy their after dinner perfectos are
gentlemen. But married women belong
ing TO their husbands and living in the
northwest, in the set whose doings the
papers chronicle, are our constant patrons.
Sometimes their husbands come along with
them and give advice. Sometimes the
ladies choose their own cigarettes and
advise the gentlemen about cigars.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

Richter asserted that no man could live
pkously or die righteously without wife;
The morning times., 1897-01-21

manent Family Circulation much
greater than any other paper, mo rn-
ing or evening, published in Wash
fnpton. As a New and Advertising
Medium it has go competitor.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

1t is an unfortunate fact that people buy
pianos who do not know anything aboutthe
Instrument. They are offered 800
pianos for $500" and they take them, and
after awhile are sorry.-Eddie Droop.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

MY friend, E. w. Barrett, my predecessor
in Washington, has a fine opening for his
newspaper at Danville. He is expecting to
start it in a few days. His prospects are
rosy, he tells me.-Correspondent Oil,
Atlanta Constitution.
The morning times., 1897-01-21
January Sale of
Boys Clothing.
$2.6S EACH
Earlier $3.50 and $3.50.

Boys Jack-Tar Refers; made OF all
wool Chinchilla-the kind that you can
depend on, as TO wear and color. Some
have storm collars; all are the finest
goods and the very pTettiest styles OF
the season. Sizes to 16 years.
The morning times., 1897-01-21

length the noes nave IL.
OF course it remains to observe that
Uncle Joe Cannon, the real big gun in the
Illinois Senatorial fight, went off at half
cock.
II Mr.. Mckinley wants to begin the Sc
lection of "A real good Cabinet. there is the
new Senator from New York, who has
always been ambitious in the direction of
OF the Treasury.
Three men are left in the senatorship
race in Kansas, and it is understood that
either one OF them would take the office
if sufficiently urged.
Mark Hanna has been sounded; and
since such II thing is Impossible in his
case or in any otllcr, it is learned that
he is warmly in favor of the election Of
Senators by popular vote.
All who desire office under Hon Chester
Socrates Lord should appeal directly at
the Sun office i'll New York; third floor,
front; don ring. =
The fight for the collectorship of the
port of New York seems To be mario wing
down TO Hon. John Everlasting aIilholland
and Hon Wilbur Fearnaught Wakeman.
Senator Hoar won't be obliged after
all to object to Senator elect William
Lorrimer, OF Illinois, because he WAS once
a street car conductor.
The train time between st. Louis and
the Mexican line has been shortened to
twelve hours. but Canada is still much
nearer and much more practicable.
The critics need not feel so big / { John
Sherman has forgotten more than they ever
knew.
The harrow trust, OF Pennsylvania, is
said to be turning a good, clean fllrrow
these days.
1t is a great pity when so many iegis-
latures are electing United States sena-
tors that there was not a chance some
where JOr Gtn- Lew w Naildce.
The mischievous Massachusetts RepubIi-
cans are now recalling "A mscbiev Gus old
Democratic refrain, common formerly in
the Bay State; Man wants but little here
below, nor wants that little Long,
II Hon. John Sherman is looking about
for iStu y,t of
State there is Hon. Josh Quincy, OF Boston.
Hon. Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, will
long be remembered as the stiffest hand
in poker in recent contemporary politics.
Senator Thurston declares that there
are things that are worse than war Per
haps he has been shopping with Mrs.
Thurston lately.
MAJOR Mckinley is working his great
Cabinet trick, YOU observe, with no mus
tacht to deceive you.
Perhaps Senator Wolcott is preparing
to touch Baron RothSchild for lis Iass-r
age home.
Our advice to all journals that are ad-
vocating new Secretary of Commerce in
the Presidents Cabinet would be, first
catch your commerce.
1t ought not to be forgotten by the gold
standard advocates that there is a fine,
valuable reserve OF fifty millions slowed
away in the teeth of American citizens.
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Al
Csn.a - Tn -aaa.n nSoo1

a Fnction Takes P~osscssien of .
Church and Threaten Blood.
Dodgeville, Wis, Aug. IA church
var has broken out here and the
streets are filled with excited people.
The congregation Of the Primitive
Methodist church last fall resolved
itself into a Congregational church and
continued TO use the church and par
sonage. no change being made except
In name. About a dozen Of the PRINT
tive congregation refused to unite with
the new organization and determined
70 secure control or the property. They
elected some of themselves trustees.
Last night certain parties forced them
selves into the church. ~barricaded the
doors and posted a notice on the front
door that the property was in the
hands of the trustees of the Primitive
Methodist church and that any person
interfering with il would do SO ut his
reril. The barricaded party had re-
vOlvers and clubs and were prepared
to hold their position. Then the ex-
element became intense and nearly
the entire town fiocked down to the
place. One of the party was arrested
and locked in Jail. He halls from Min
eral Point. He says he was hired by
the pretended trustees.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-08-12

The blight that has constantly fallen
upon this country, and which has kept
1t in a continual condition OF business
prostration, has been the inability of
the factories Of this country to find
purchasers enough at home to consume
their products. Under this almost un-
varying condition the manufacturers
have been compelled to close their fac
tories down for long periods. with the
consequent throwing out of employ
ment of thousands Of people who at
once become a vast army of non-pro-
ducers and non-consumers.-"Regis-
ter" Mobile. Ala.
True. This Democratic "blight" per-
mitted the factories of Europe TO sup
ply our markets. hence. as the Reg
lister" says, our manufacturers have
been compelled to close their factories
down for long periods, with the conse-
quent throwing out of employment of
thousands of people," And these thou
sands of people" will never forget the
destructiveness of the deadly blight"
OF the Democratic party's free trade
policy.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-08-12

accepted by the eenferees ard by con
gress 1t would nave compelled the trust
to pay in internal revenue taxes prob
ably Is million dollars upon the sugar
which 1t had piled up in its warehouses.
The conferees and congress, however.
did not adopt Secretary Cages recom-
~mendation for reasons which they
looked upon as entirely sufficient and
the moment this fact became known,
first that the sugar trust would make
this large profit by reason Of the in
creased duty on sugar and second. that
y -ouid not be compelled to pay out
any OF that profit in the proposed in
ternal revenue tax upon its sugar stock,
those who calculated the profits which
1t would make during the coming year
on this enormous mass OF sugar which
ie holds saw readily that the profits
would be great and the dividends large.
The result was the advance in sugar
trust stock about which there was so
much talk and denunciation. This adj
vance was not due to n permanent
advantage which the new tariff bill
gives the trust over the old law but
on the contrary the difference be-
tween raw and refined sugars under
the new bill is. as already indicated
l2h cents per hundred while under the
Wilson law 1t is 221a cents per hun
dred pounds, thus making 1t apparent
at once that the permanent "differen-
tial' or difference in tariff rates which
the sugar refiners get under the new
law is far less than that under the Will
son law, while this loss to the trust
is Offset by the mere temporary ad-
vantage in the advance in prices which
they are able to make upon the enorm-
Gus accumulation of sugar which they
have on hand.
GEORGE WILLIAMS.
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GEORGE WILLIAMS.
Tbs Relation Of Wages to the Reduction
In Tariff.

The Relation of Wages to the Reduction
In Tariff.
President Ratchford, In a letter to
the New York Herald, says:
"A miners wages In the western
Pennsylvania field ranges from 54 to
AZ cents per ton In thin-veined dis
tricts and from 30 TO % cents per ton
in the t~hick-veined. In 1893 the min
ing rate In t~hin-veined districts was
10 cents and in thick-veined SIS cents
per on. During the same year the
rate in Ohio and Indiana was 20 and
rs cents. respectively. Now it Is 81
cents. with a reduction proposed in
Ohio to As cents per ton. This ratio
holds good in a general way all along
the lines; Illinois. a portion of Iowa.
eastern and central Pennsylvania and
the Virginias are all equally effected"
The fall in the wages shown by these
figures is certainly a remarkable one.
and unless the miners were exceeding
ly we'll paid before, they must find IL
difficult to live decently now. Mr..
Ratchford's figures also suggest a
parallel between the tariff rates on coal
and the wages paid for digging it.
During the years cited they were al
o exactly the same, the duty under
the Mckinley bill having been rs
cents a ton and under the Wilson bill
40. -Jacksonville Times-Union (Dem.).
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-08-12
suing Bankers I'm milwaukee.

Milwaukee,, Aug. The papers are
ready and suit for ever $1,00O,000 will
be filed within a day OF two against
the directors OF the defunct Planking-
ton bank, charging them with miscon-
duet in their official capacity as di-
rectors and seeking to hold them liable
to creditors for the full amount of de-
posits made in the bank, less dividends
already paid thereon. The suit will
be brought by a number OF the depos-
itors. A test suit. involving the same
propositions. was brought by William
Gordes, a creditor of the bank, against
the directors Of the bank, and has just
been decided in Gordes' favor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-08-12
pr,oxing Trnmp. to Time.

kauid CITY, s. d., Aug. 10-A gang of
h huns were arrested here. One OF
I gang entered n house in the east
! section of the city and used insult
4 language to the lady of the house.
beers o had the gang rounded up
in the cooler. They were all
bught out on the street and an at
tupt was made TO make them work.
key all refused and made sport Of the
eers. Another attempt will be
he, and if ii fails again the fellows
be chained in n gang and made TO
Tx behind a dray wagon until they
! willing to work. This is the may
order.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-08-12
south Dakota waterspout.

Hot Springs, s. d., Aug. "a water
spout struck this town. 1t raised the
water in the creek which runs through
the town between ten and twelve feet.
This creek winds through the town in
a circuitous way and the railroad
crosses II several times. Four small
wooden bridges of the Elk Horn rail-
road were carried away. Three or
four bridges Of the company within a
radius of four miles of the town are
badly damaged, but have not been
swept out. Several small houses were
carried away. One life has been re-
ported lost.
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woLFEn's ma FAMILY.
The Prison P~opu,.t,or
Than for Years.

ihe rrfson Population =. r.-
Than for Years. "
81. raul. Aug. S.-The wardan.s
port 70 the board of prison osr.
SHOWS a prison population Of 53s =
larger number than has been in rho IN.
s,i,ution for years. OF these ten arc
women. which breaks the record for
number of female convicts. Two %
inc ten VIII soon become mothers and
VIII probably be paro,ed before that
,ine . sent back to Minneapolis,
where they live. Their husbands are
IN prison also and win be releases
WIN them, ali their rerms being short
ones; The board of managers has dc.
iued 70 purchase additional binder
wine machinery. increasing the daily
output 0 pounds. and bringing il mn
70 a total OF $1,000 pounds. Irvine
from the prison has been In demand
sn,S year and the entire supply of
5,oootsG pounds was sold. bringing in
500. 600. N
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Bringiug Tramp. to Time.

Rapid City, s. D.. Aug. "a gang or
nine buns were arrested here. One OF
the gang entered n house in the east
ern section Of the city and used insult
ing language to the lady of the house.
Officers soon had the gang rounded up
and in the cooler. They were all
brought, out on the street and an at
tempt was made to make them work.
They all refused and made sport Of the
officers. Another attempt will be
made, and if it fails again the fellows
will be chained in n gang and made to
walk behind a dray wagon until they
are willing to work. This is the may
or'S order.
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Cr-N for

Springfield, H., Aug. 9.-Gov. Tan
ner has received the following tele-
gram from Sheriff Randall of Mont
gomery cour-v, at Coffeen, ILL.,: "Coun-
ty and local exhausted. Must
have militia"
In reply Gov. Tanner sent a telegram
saving: please advise fully of the
nature of the trouble and what you
have done. In the meantime it is your
duty to protect life and property ana
preserve the peace. 1t Is your duty TO
call every able-bodied man between
the ages Of eighteen and forty-1ve in
your county 10 your aid