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The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1898-02-05
STATEHOOD Bills KILLED.
House Committee On Territories Rejects
the Measures.

A Washington dispatch says: State
hood legislation at this session was
killed Wednesday by the house COM
mittee on territories rejecting Arizona,
New Mexico and Oklahoma bills by o
vote OF 8 to 8. The first two meas
ures were punched and defeated
Then the Oklahoma bill was taken up
and beaten by the same vote. There
was no discussion as it was under
stood at the last meeting that the vote
was to be taken without further pre-
liminaries.
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German army Not that there is ANYTHING
~ ~ German law or in that OF any of the
sr ~ states TO prevent Jew becoming
AZ olncer-the circumstance Is entirely due
70 the officers themselves and to the system
corps.
it will be easily understood from this that
Jews and Jewesses are not looked on favor
ably In the best society"
When there are officers wanting money,
winch they can easily obtain by marrying
Jewish ladies who wish to get into society"
Intermediates will be found who will aid in
bringing about the necessary intrOductions.
When. however. these Intermediates do not
Is1eiVe sufficiently high brokerage" or
they are forgotten in the subsequent happi-
ness, the public learns interesting details.
The most recent case has been of peculiar
interest, as one of the married parties, be-
slueS being an artstocrat and a prominent
political parsonage. is the proprietor of an
extensively read Berlin newspaper. Some
time ago the following advertisement, which
IS a sample OF what are published every day
~ the leading German newspapers, appeared
IN a Berlin paper:
AN aristocrat Of the old nobility forty
years old, of agreeable, distinguished APP
pearance, of scanty means, though abso-
lutely free from debts, wishes TO marry
lady possessing a large fortune.
A marriage agent answered this advertise
ment and contract was drawn up, by vir-
tue OF which the agent was to receive D
per cent. or the fortune brought by the lady
If the advertiser, a count found a wife
through his instrumentality. The count was
pat into communication with several
the agent that he had reconsidered and in
tended to remain single. The agent ac-
cepted a small fee for out-of-pocket ex
penses and considered the matter closed
Shortly afterward however, he heard that
the count had married one of the ladies NE
had introduced and forthwith claimed his
percentage.
Again the count tried to evade expense by
giving the lady's dowry as less than it
really was. The agent discovered the truth.
and, as the count refused to pay, the mat
Ter was brought into court. After going
through the lower courts, the case has now
been thrown out by the Supreme Court of
Judlcature on the ground that payment Of
fees for promoting a marriage cannot be
enforced by Prussian law.
That this mode of obtaining a partner for
life is largely practiced is also proved by
the fact that a newspaper devoted entirely
TO the interests of the business has, for a
long time, been issued weekly in Berlin.
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They Build n Dam to Make a Swim
ming Pond.
Boston Transcript.

Boston Transcript.
In the ineffable old town of Wrentham
great business is made of raising ducks,
and the eXuberant fancy of the native in
habitants consequently cJrnS itself loose
nowadays ON duck stories. Perhaps the most
remarkable ducks in the town are those that
belong to Mr.. Greening, the Storekeeper.
Mr.. Greening keeps his fine white Pekins in
a small pasture or Enclosure through which
trickles-or did trickle-a rivulet of water.
Mr.. Greening, of course, erected about this
Enclosure high chicken wire fence so that
his ducks could not get out. But on the
lower side of the pasture, where the stream
let went through, there was space enough
between the wire screen and the water for
the ducks to get through and escape, and
so Mr.. Greening drove down some stakes,
side by side. into the bottom of the stream.
to prevent the ducks from getting out.
Then the ducks rose magnlticently to their
opportunity. They discovered in these
stakes put there merely to restrain their
liberty, the foundation of great happiness.
They assembled in the rivulet close up
against the stakes; they padded the bottom
of the stream with their webbed feet; they
stirred up the mud and forced it against the
stakes, and little by little they made dam
which caused the water to back and create
for them beautiful pond. And now. every
day. these happy and astute ducks may be
seen gayly swimming on nne, smooth eX-
panse of water which is the result of their
own engineering talent.
And yet, this is not the most remarkable
instance of the intelligence of Wrentham
ducks. There is another breeder out there
ming pond, of which they are very proud.
Last fall When the colu weather came OH the
pond began TO skim over with a thin crust
ing of ice. Now, these wise ducks had dis
covered that If the water were disturbed it
would not freeze over so readily; and in or
der that their pond should not freeze, they
spent one entire night going in and com
ing out of the water, and so necessarily
troubling its surface that it could not
freeze!
The proud owner of the ducks, having been
out at a lodge meeting, discovered them thus
engaged at about midnight, and stayed up a
while to watch them. After he went to bed
he could not sleep, and got up and looked
out of the window; the ducks were still in
dustriousy waddling in and climbing out or
the water The result was that next day
when ali the other duck ponds were frozen
nm and their possessors wandering and
IUiIacking disconsolately on the banks, these
Wise ducks were complacently floating and
padding on the free and silvery bosom of
their charming lake1et.
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Kansas City Journal.

Kansas City Journal.
There are more wonderful things in a set
than are dreamed of in the realm of COM
moa life Here. for instance. is a set of
questions prepared by President Will, of the
AgricuItural College which are to be an
svered in less than two hours, of which the
folIowinq are two samples: Compare and
contrast the eastern and western hemis-
eiIs and fat country. deserts. forests, seas.
e1Ilfs. bays. lakes and river systems; give a
55oIiticaI review of the ten chief nations of
ne world showing the relations of each to
the others in forms of government. friendli-
ness hostility or armed neutrality. And the
victim is asked to answer eight such Ques-
lions in less than two hours and spend his
dav over FIVE or six sets of similar ques-
lions In other lines.
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AT the Second Floor
Department

Fireside Readings, containing from loo to
200 stories, profusely illustrated. E0c
4 kinds. prices 45c and ............. .OOS
Special Photograph Albums atE2 S0
81 ana -
Stories, with Illuminated board 81
cover and 50 illustrations. for. ......... "
Young Folks Natural History and Child's
Life of Jesus, with Illuminated OGc
board covers, choice ...-.............&O 49,
History of the United States. for young
people illuminated board cover 3Oc
History of England for young people, 154
pages. illuminated board cover Soc
Andersens Fairy bdgyd Tales Tales s pages 3Oc
MH 5mG eGede b RT esys ns chyme Zoe
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WIVES FOR NEEDY MOBILES.
H'Sv Such Matrimonial Matters Are
Arranged in Germany.

Belin Letter in London Mail.
1 Is notorious that marriages are made
In ea9en, but--to Judge from facts brought
to light by several lawsuits which have
Iatay occupied Berlin courts-considerable
assstance is rendered by earthly interme-
otaies OF both sexes.
ltFanspired in one case just settled that
2 considerable business is done in Berlin
- lromoUng marriages between officers in
lne army and rich JeweSses, The German
hobAlty and upper classes (the Junkers) are
fH general poor; they are. however, very
cllqley, and very careful whom they admit
lntoithe favored circle of their society.
Ehe bulk Of the capital in Germany Is in
the lands Of Jews indeed, If the truth were
kho9n, Il would probably show that the
PIT prosperous state Of trade and COM
Mereh IN Germany is attributable rather to
SeWiih than 70 purely German enterprise.
MS applies. at any rate, TO the capital.
Ihf Germans themselves almost acknowl-
ssoge ttheir fear Of the superiority OF their
leilof -citizens OF Jewish extraction by care
luily excluding them from almost every
position Of political influence. There Is. too.
aaFdF one Jew among the officers OF the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-11
The Girl Tint Believes in Me.

OF all the pretty msidens
There's none so sweet as she,
That simple, trusting lassie,
The girl who believes in me.
There are some with greater beauty.
And some that Whittier be-
But there's only one wee grille
That ever believed in me-
She's never been to college,
Knows not her A. B. c,
Yet she has stores OF wisdom
COR she'd not believe in mel
She's not an ancient lassie.
Her years they are but three:
Which, may be, Is the reason
That she believes in me-
Jean LCall. in Truth.
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CHAPTER l.
A life on the ocean wave,
A home on the rolling deep;
If the winds would only behave
This breakfast / would keep.
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life on the wave,
A home the rolling deep:
If the winds would only behave
This breakfast l would keep.
Lord Byron
Eyes: now that you drive me to the wall
and force me to speak with bicycle pump,
/. l, /, l. l, ], l, 1. I, l. l, /, L. Incidentally,
Me. Me-"
Then with a modest blush playing hide
and-seek around the outskirts of his whis-
kers, Admiral Sampson sent for his secre-
tary.
fit General Shafter" he commanded.
Shortly afterward another report was
heard.
CHAPTER H.
To ran ia IA To ia ra!
OH hear the bugle's notes!
Oh! will we have bean soup to-day,
Or shall we dine on oats?
-Barrack Room Ballads,
do not force me to tell the TRUTH
The speaker was a large man with a de-
Hghtfully rounded figure which bore a
startling resemblance to the State of Rhode
Since you insist however, I must admit
that ] whipped Spain-I myself. In the in
terests of truth l make this admission"
Then General Shafter started into make
remarks about Admiral Sampson, utilizing
the Choctaw language and an asbestos-lined
apartment in a fire-proof building.
CHAPTER III.
At midnight in his guarded tent
The Turk in dreamland made research
When suddenly dark brown hand
Came in and yanked him off the perch.
Songs of the South.
What are you doing Secretary Alger?"
Il am writing a report, he answered. Il
think | have discovered who won the war"
He arose.
With a delightfully."- graceful gesture he
grasped a large bouquet and threw it hastily
at himself.
CHAPTER w.
Lives of great men oft remind
We should not talk out OF turn;
Keeping We IL leave behind
Heroistic fame to burn.
-Longfellow.
Dewey smiled and continued to saw
wood.
Schey smiled and refrained from using
his hat as an adjunct to conversation.
History picked up its opera glasses and
gaZed long and earnestly at these two.
Meanwhile the loud booming Of reports
came from another quarter.
The End.
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Special Calendars

Beauty Calendars, six parts each, &C. &c,
1Sc and zoe.
Poets and Little Ones Calendars,
parts each, Sc.
Calendar of the seasons, drops, sc.
Calendar of Young Folks. 8 parts, for Sc.
Calendar of the Poets, parts, for sc.
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Books for Boys and
Girls

We rame few, just to show you how
our prices run.
Set of Julia Horatio Ewing CT 0S
Works, vols, boxed. .P s%O
Little Maid of Concord Town, by Mar
garet Sidney, publishers price 81 10
$3.50; our price ...................ApA" ~
Margaret Montfort by Laura F..
Richards, publishers price SIPS; OSc
our. price ........................
Poor Sallie and Her Christmas, by May
D. Brine, publishers price $l.25; OSc
our price ''....'.'..'''..'......'
Young Volunteer in Cuba, by Edward
Stratemeyer, publishers price 00c
$1.25; our price .......................O
Henty's Wellington's Command
publishers price $3.50; our CT IN
price ........ ...................'.'A ~
Henty's At Aboukir and Acre and Both
Sides of the Border, publish e. III
ers price $3.50 each; our price. APA" ~
Dainty volumes in leather bindings, in
Guiding Lucille. Evangeline, Princess
Able Constantine, Vicar of Wake
field, etc, green morocco, calf S2c
finish, choice .........................
Lady of the Lake, Childe Harold, Hia-
watha. selections from Browning,
etc, in padded Morocco bind OSc
1ngS, at ......-.-..........-.''.'
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UMBRELLAS FOR PRESENTS

UMBRELLAS FOR PRESENTS
Ladies' 26-inch Taffeta Silk Umbrellas,
with case and tassel and
fine. assortment of handles,&2 90
choice 1880. .......-.......-....-f
A great value in an All-silk Umbrella,
with case and tassel, and a fine assort-I
ment of handles, good s. Um-&2. ~
brella for .........................AP
A few of those $3.50 Umbrellas. for La
dies and Men. left from Satur- cNS 0fAI
days sale, go at.................APO
Mems Cane Sets, with detachableI
handles in fine Horn, Boxwood and Fir.
new and very convenient, especially for
travelling. prices $3.75 to IS.
Mems Canes, special holiday assort-
n2ent.
Right of Entrance
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The Newest Fiction

Battle of the Strong, by Gilbert Parker,
publishers price, $1.5O; our 81 m
price $500. .....................AP A"A ~
Seats Of the Mighty, by the same author,
publishers price $1.5O; our &1 ~
price ......... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. p Az
Adventures of Francois, by S. Weir Mitch
ell, publishers price $15O; our e. ~
price $500. .-.....-.'..-.. ~ ~
Red Rock, by Thomas Nelson Page,
publishers price $3.50; our CT ~
price 1850. ...........'...s.:... ~
When Knighthood Was in Flower.
publishers price $3.50; our &110
price ......... ..................:..A PA'AO
Rileys Child Rhymes. with Hoosier Pic
lures. by VIII Vawter. pub CT M
lisher's price $1.25; our price. ~ AsOO
One Way Around the World by Delight
Sweetser, publishers price N.25 OSC
our price OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. y
House of Hidden Treasure, by Maxwell
Gray, publishers price $150; 81 IN
our price ..........................A PAe AZ
A Golden Sorrow, by Maria Louise Pool,
publishers price T5O; our 81 IN
An Idyll of the Wabash, by Anna Nicho-
las. publishers price $1.25; our OSc
Johnnie, by f. o. Laughlin, pub OSc
lisher's price $125: our price. .......1|S
The WeIl-bred Girl in Society, by Mrs.
Burton Harrison, publishers 22c
price SOC; our price .................O
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COBBLER'S ENEMY SHOES

COBBLER'S ENEMY SHOES
we have decided to give prizes as stated
below to the nine boys who draw, free
hand mo trRcing), the best reproductions
Of the picture herewith. To make the con-
test even, have divided the boys according
to their ages, as follows:
Boys to years Of age.
Boys to 10 years of age.
Boys II to IA years of age.
To each OF the THREE boys in each OF
the three divisions whose pictures are de-
rided to be the best we will give pair OF
COBBLER'S ENEMY SHOES.
These Shoes are made of selected Satin
Calf Skins. with medium round toes. oak
tan soles. steel circlets in heels and heavy
dongola tops. Sizes 912 to 1872, with spring
heels, sell at $1.25 a pair. Sizes 12l5 to 51a
sell at $3.50 a pair.
Sign your name, address and age TO the
drawings and deposit them before the
store closes next Saturday night In the
box at the Shoe Department. The winners
will be announced during the week before
Christmas.
The winning drawing will be displayed
at the Shoe Department We put you on
honor, boys, not to trace or do otherwise
than make a free-hand drawing-get out
your pencil now
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Baltimore American
Qxpurgated and carefully brought up to date)
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Children's Chairs, in white, in white o.
and red enamel and oak, choice. 80
Childrens Extension Tables for 81.
Toy Ironing Board and Stand, n
while they last ....................... ~
Saw Buck and Saw, a great thing 1E
for the boys OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Boys Tool Chests for...............4S
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Great Selling
in Sets of Books

Our prices are creating the biggest stir
of years in sets of books. Aren't you in
terested?
Five-volume sets Of Henty, Cooper's
Leather Stocking Tales and Sea Tales,
Macaulay's History of England
the Duchess che and Others neatly 7Sc
Dumas Twenty Years After. large OQc
octave volumes, illustrated, for. .SOC
The Three Musketeers, to match, O2c
George Eliot's Works complete, %1.3O
George Eliot's Works. LibraryT2. rs
Edition, VOlS.... APA%" a -
Dickens's Works, complete, in $500 OQ
VOiS-... ....-.-.-...........AP ~~S
Victor Hugos Works, vols, 60 az
Library Edition .................F@sE
Washington Irving's Works, 6 81 E0
NoiS.....- $3.50. ..'.--'.'.'.'' -'-r
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MEDICINAL.
THE SUCCESSFUL REMEDY FOR
NASAL CATARRH

N ASAL NAl Akhti
Must be non.irritatiDg, easy of application,
and one that will ty its own action reach the
inhaued ard diseased surfaces.
ELY'S CREAM BALM combines the i'm
portsnt requisites of quick action and specific
curative powers with perfect safety to the
patient This agreeable remedy has mastered
catarrh as nothing else has, and both physi-
ci4ns and patients freely concede this fact.
All druggists chs erfu ly acknowledge that in
it the acme Of pbai msceutical skill has been
r. ached. = be most distressing symptoms
quickly weld TO IT, lie acute cases the Balm
imparts almost instant relief
BY ABSORPTION.
Catarrhal sufferers should remember thet
El,'s Gre IN Balm IS the only ca'aIrh remedy
which is quickly and Thoroughly absorbed nv the
diseased mem brane. 1t does not dry mp the Sc
cretions, but changes them to a llmpld and
orlcss condition, and finally to natural
and healthy character.
yhe Balm can be found at any drug store
or by sending 80 cents to Ely Brothers, DO
War; street, New York, it will be mailed.
Full directions with each package.
Cream Palm opens and cleanses the nasal
passages, allays inflammation, thereby stop
ping pain in the head, heals and protects the
membrane and resi- ores the senses OF taste
nd smell The Balm is applied directly into
the nostIils. mhlo tm94
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Opening and Closing of the Mails.


Northern mails close at 80 ard II 45 d
m. and 10, 2 so, 6 so and s 30 p. d
Open at s 90 a. m, u 90 M and 5 90 D. m
Southern mails via Charlottesville, close
at T so and 10 So 3. M. and ? 10 and
80 y. m. Open at s 90 a. m. and 2 so
and 4:30 p. m.
Southern mails, via Richmond, ciose st
10 4O 3. IN. and 8 13 and s 80 p. m.
Manassas Division mails close at so g. No.
and 3 As p. m. Open at 1 p. m.
Alexandria and Round Hill mails close at
40 q. m. and 90 p N. Open at 8 90 a. IN.
and so p. N.
Chesapeake and Ohio nails close at 2 is
2. IN. and 30 p. m. Opee SOC a. m. and
4 As p. m.
Washington mails close st ? 80 and IL As
g. NJ, and 1 15, > SO, so Snd s 80 n. m.
Open at 8 90 a. ~, - % m. and 3 90 and
4 30p.m.
Office Hours-open at 90 a. m. Close al
6 90 p. m
Sunday Hours-Open at 900 a. m. Close
ut 9 so 8. II.
Carriers Observation-Disclosures made on
inside routes-6 80 and 10 90 a. m. and
8 90 and so p. m. Full route--6 so a. IN.
and 80 D. III. Sunday collection 5 90 D..
IN. Carriers window open Sunday 8 90 a. m,
close 8 so s. m.
Deliveries made 8 90 s. ~, ID 90 H. and
90 p. m.
All mail should be in office ten minutes
before hour indicated for clozing.
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RAILROADS.
uTAsBINGTON, ALEXANDRIA AND
w MOUNT VERNON RAILROAD.
IN Eff,act Novemher IA 1897

w MOUNT NLRNON RAlLRORl.
In Effect November IA. 1897.
FOR WASHINGTON.
Leave Alexandra, corner King and Boysi
streets. also stops at King and Washington,
King aud Payne streets week days. at 30
6 %, 6 50, 20 texpres-l ! 40 ,express
s 90. S 20 express s 30 express. 9 90
8 80 1000. II 04 and il A. q. d. exc
pressl. spd IL 20, / 90 express, o.
, 90. > 40. 3 90 (express). , 30 ID. 4 ;5
(express), 5 90, 5 30texpress), 40, u 10
Cexpressj, 6 %, 7 90. I 10 lexpressl To-
8 Is, 10 ! 5 and II l . p. IN
Sundays 90, 8 90, 9 90. 9 40, 10 3l.
II Is a. m. > 90 noon, II 10, 80, 49,
300 3 10, 30. 5 is, 90, -, : 30
Is, 915, 10 Is and II - p. N.
FOR ALEXANDRIA.
Leave Washington, from the corner
Pennsylvania avenue and 1872 street, wees
days, 30, 7 %, 30 lexpressl, u0.
and IL 40 a. III. IL % express - 30
115. / 45. > O5 (express), > 40, 3 20 3 80
(expressl, IS (exprcss), 30, 05. 20
(express) ) 40, s 05, 8 30. o. : 90,
8 CO. 10 90. II % and II SO D. m.
Sundays As, 5 40, 9 -. 10 30, II 10
a. M. / = 90 noon, and u 40, / 30 > H.
90, 3 45. 4 30, . 10, 600, q A.,
7 80, SIS, 900. 10 90 and II 20 p. m.
FOR MOUNT VERNON
Leave Alexandria for Mount Vernon, week
DAYS. at 7 OF, s 80, 10 81, i - =. III.
and II %, / At. = 3D. a 43 and 40 ?. m.
Sundays 20 and 10 20 a. m, j. 30.
30, 30 and 7 Is pm.
Leave Mount Vernon. week days AT 40
ID and II IA a. N. and - 40, ! 30.
40, 4 10. 5 30 and 5 20 p. m.
Leave Mount Vernon, Sundays, at 90
and / % a. NJ and ! 40 3 30, 20 aud
8 90 III.
Leave Arlington junction fof Arlington
and Rosslyn hourly.
Baggage $50 pound rec checked from
stations.
Parcels carried on all trains at the follow
ing rates Under 10 pounds. 3 cents; 10 Il
% pounds, IL cents over 20 to 30 pounds,
Is cents
Freight car led daily. morning and even
ing in each direction at freight rates.
Tickets are sold at the offices of tho Rail
road Company at the following rates:
Fare. Alexandria to Washington, l 5 cents,
round.trip % cents.
g. f. ABBOT. GEO. e. PHILLIPS,
General Manager. General Passenger Agt,
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Train No. So connects at Calverton for Warren'on
rnc,r crDurOu,

LOCAL SERVICE.
for Dnv Charlotte and way stations Connet, at 5s
franklin junction for Rocky Mount and intermediate
returning arrves a F.
No
Wa eurning rivese
daily Sunday for Harrsonbarsi
Alexandra 30
Ola
Hill and To-
SLEEPING
Limited through Sleeping Cars between
NewY
and Tampa via Charlotte Columbia svnn"
Pullman Richmond
New York and Nashville Tenn @
Dining Car bewe Greens
Mall Pullman Sleeping Na D't
Orleans and from Birmingham sn
Pullman
Knoxville Chatanoog
between
Lynburg for Lexington
urday to Sa1 Fancisc change.
ickeI
TrahcM
Sc
3rd Vice resdn
Washington, C.