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The Natchitoches enterprise., 1899-05-18
Peas.
Peas.
Open Air.Concert.

Clay and WhIppOorwill Peas cheap
for cash. Williams, Weaver & O'Quln'
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Scriven's Drawers

7sc per pair at williams, Weaver &
O'uuin's.
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Pants. Panfs.

See williams, Weaver q O'Quin's
. wash Pants Cor boys.4 20, % and so
cents.
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For Sale.

The square of ground IN front Of the
Normal school, containing ten hne
building lots, on advanta geou terms.
Apply te - n
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Railroads.


Not word have we heard during the
past week regarding the mauv railroad
projects In this aseaons and while this
is dampening to our spirits we possess
ourselves in peace with the soothing re-
Election, mo news is good news"
The report lie the Edenborn tax pro-
position In VIM parish will be defeated
and the Edenborn road will soon come
knocking at our door,
the Shreveport Times Of Tuesday
contained the fOllowinRi
Capt. L Caspari, Of Natchi.oches, is
on visit to the city 10 see friends. He
told the Times last hight that the pro-
moters Of the NatGhitocGes and Shreve-
port railway whi.lIst run on the west
bank of Red River ar now In confer.
ence In New Yorl 1rf; ging the finan~
cial details. He + vs. expects In the
near future to cat apr the people Of
shreveport to gee mai Iey Will do to
aid such ar et rpri' He thinks It
would add much o Z eveUort's trade
and materially eloT nd aid the sec.
ton through wh IL II pass.
~
Odss
Mrs. q. w. CoeKHrh' entertained the
Round Table Cit on ednesdaV after
noon in honor Nj Es MacCombe.
Mrs. j. Al DHeo NAT DR.. carried of
the fret Brlze. WI ts1 r. p. Chaplin
captured the boo 2. delicious refresh
ments consisting ice cream and straw
berries and cake ere served At .he con-
slasion IT the ~ c.
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Sheriff s Sale

We'll Bros. 6 Bauer VS.. w. 7. Grape;
ct ais.
10th District Court, Parish of Natchito-
ches-HN1o. 1920.
BY virtue of writ of Fl. Fa. issuing
out of the above entitled and numbered
suit and to me directed, 1 have seized,
and will offer for sale, at public auction,
to the last and highest bidder, at the
principal front door of the courthouse
in the City and Parish of Natchitoches,
La, on
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FILING
TO HELP

Securing Jre<.
M from MFgYY
raf0Trk makes
yaI UftH6s for
'e H6rI0f0T.
Pe-ru-na has
been making
friends of this
kind for many
! years. It cures
) catarrll wher-
/ ever located.
n Mrs. r. Fades.
IS Twenty
eighth St. De.
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BIG VALUES.

Rescue Plaids 44c. 10-4 Sheeting 25c per sheet
Genuine Green LIgnt Lonsdale sc a yard.
Fine Sea Island Domestic 41sc yard.
Ladies oxford Ties Soc a pair.
Standard Lawns 10 yar0s for Doc.
1914 BIeached Sheeting only 25c per yard.
Mems dotted Swiss Puff Bosom Shirts only 75c.
Mems Wash Pants Sc per Pair.
Our lOc Lawns 10 yards for SOC.
15c White Dmity to go at l0c per yard.
White Bed Spreads at 65c pair.
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BIG BARGAINS.

White Shirt Waists EOc apiece.
White body colored front Shirts, with extra CUTS AGO.
Sweaters, cream, blue and black 35c each.
Children's linen pants only 20c pair.
Mems good straw hats Csc each.
Good quality Brown drilling &c per yard.
Simpson Prints 413c yard.
Mems eros Grain Coats and Vests 1915, value $780,
Mems Blue Seerge Goats and Vests 81, value S.
ALI solid colored organizes for DC. value lac
80 inch White Organdy for 5Oc, regular price zoe.
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To obtain rood results you must ad
verTlse freely.
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Victory.

LIcHTENSTRIN BLOCK
The record-union., 1899-09-16
HELD TO ANSWER.
Jose Sanches Will Have to StanG
Trial in the Superior Court.

Jose Sanches was before Justice An
derson yesterday morning, and was
held to answer to the Superior Court
for stealing a pistol belonging to Vet
erinary Surgeon D. F. Fox.
On Thursday Sheriff Johnson ap-
peared and gave as his reason for
not producing the prisoner, that Su-
perior Judges Hughes and Johnson had
advised him not to do SO.
Sanches is now serving a. six months
sentence for petty larceny, and when
he was arraigned several days ago in
the City Justices Court the Sheriff
claimed that he was removed from the
County Jail without his knowledge by
Police officer Max P. Fisher. He so
informed City Attorney De Ligne, and
the latter returned the prisoner.
The City Attorney consulted with
Judge Hughes about the matter, and
it was agreed that Sanches should
take his preliminary examination be-
fore City Justice Anderson.
The evidence taken agreed with the
account already published in the Rec
ord Union The prior sentence placed
against the prisoner was a burglary
committed in San Bernardino County.
Sanches was held to answer, bail be-
ing fixed at $4,000.
officer Fisher has hunted up Sanches'
record, and says he found several
prior convictions against him.
The record-union., 1899-09-16

domains, the Commercial Travellers, the
Woman's Club of 80; to the Governor of
the State, Henry T. Gage, and to the
State officials having residence mere,
and many who reside abroad; to the
Athletic Associations, to the parlors of
the Native Sons and Native Daughters, $,
to gentlemen of the army and navy,
and the members of the National
Guard, the Acknowledgements of the
State Board of Agriculture are surely
due, and likewise, and not by any means
least, to the California Press Associa-
ton. which with splendid spirit has
aided the good work and lent its en-
deavors to cultivate among the people
proper sentiment concerning the
scope, purpose and benef1cence of the
State exposition.
From all which let the State board
take a lesson, namely, that really all
that is needed to make all future fairs
it holds successful, is to disabuse the
public mind Of the misinformation it
has had concerning the fair, and to
thoroughly inform it, in a manner i'm
pressive and aggressive, concerning the
work, the true status and the possi-
bic beneficence of the fair, for every
section of the State and all the people
within its bounds.
The record-union., 1899-09-16
Mrs. pinkham's Advice Saved
Mrs. Hayes From an Operation.
TLErrER 40 MRS. PINKHAM no. 64,z83l

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM- Words cannot
express my thanks to you for your kind
advice to me in regard to my health, /
had been running down in health for
about seven years. ] had doctored
with good doctors and taken a great
many patent medicines. My trouble
began when my first child was born
/ had a very bard time and after its
birth would have severe flooding spells.
After my second child 1 had very
good health until last winter when /
again became pregnant and suffered
very much and miscarried. came
very near dying, and the doctor said
must have an operation, which fright
ened me very much, and concluded to
write to you for your advice, and take
your medicine. Was troubled with the
whites, great pain in back and hips,
sometimes when lying down or sitting
was unable to get up. Would have
such pain in groins could hardly walk.
81 can say / have never seen any
thing so wonderful as Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and Sana-
tive Wash. Your remedies have done
wonders for me. Hoping that many
of my suffering sisters may be led to
take your medicine from reading this
letter, remain, sincerely yours, Mrs.
MARY HAYES, HARDINsBURe, KY"
Letters like the foregoing should
convince everyone that Mrs. Pinkham's
advice is certain help.
The record-union., 1899-09-16

The present indications are that the
Beers and the English will come to no
satisfactory understanding, and that
war is inevitable. The general opinion
obtains in the United States that if
war is declared it will have for its pur-
pose the extinction of Boer government
in the Transvaal and the substitution
Of English domination While this
country entertains the idea that the
redress of grievances of the Uitlanders
is the least Of the purposes of English
aggression, we have no reason for even
suggesting, by offer Of our good Offices.
to act as umpire for the two contest
ants. Mr.. Bourke Cochran's S suggestion
to President Mckinley to propose to
act as arbitrator on the grounds OF
humanity, and because American inter-
ests in the Transvaal are imperiled, is
disingenuous. Mr.. Cochran must have
known that such a suggestion from the
President would be taken as a bit of
impertinence, because one of the par
ties is not bound by international
agreement to the compact which per-
mits neutral to intervene with sug-
gestion of arbitration. We suspect that
the shrewd Democratic lawyer had for
his purpose the leading Of President
Mckinley into trap that would yield
campaign material for the Democratic
raid about to be made against the Ad-
ministration
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Anti-Cigarette League.

Aurora girls have formed league.
the purpose of which is to aid in
bringing about an abatement of the
cigarette nuisance. as they term it.
This league, the Argus" says, will
have among it's members the leadins
young society women of the city, "and
they will be pledged to neither enter
tain nor keep company with any young
man who is addicted to the use OF
cigarettes. The girls are not organiz.
ing a farce movement, but are in dead
earnest and they will try to make their
pledge so binding that no one will dare
break it, indeed, we are reliably in,
formed that after membership very
severe punishment will be inflicted ON
any one so doing. kansas City Jour-
nal
The record-union., 1899-09-16

the world, is that the one has read lit
tie, seen little, thought little The
other has rubbed up much against men
and things; mas travelled much, read
much, seen much, thought much Time
was when a native of the Orient was
a great curio in the Occident, and vice
versa And when occidental thought
and occidental affairs rarely were
known in the Orient; when Oriental
ideas and conditions seldom reached
the knowledge of those in the Occident
But with the marvellous strides con-
stantly going on in the world of trans
portation and in the transmission of
thought. undreamt-of changes are con-
tinuously taking place, and the whole
world is speedily becoming like unto
one land. Thought can be more quick
ly transmitted to-day over a distance
of ten thousand miles than over one
hundred miles in the days of our fore
fathers. One can cross the American
continent to-day in half the time it
took the early colonists to go from Phil
adelphia to Boston
1t is these marvellous changes that are
tending to tear down the false barriers
between man and man. Men are get
ting broader; nations are getting more
tolerant; religions are becoming more
liberal and man is coming closer to
man.
You and I may not live to see the
day when prejudice and hatred will
have entirely Disappeared: you and T
may not live to see the day when uni
versal peace shall prevail and when
man shall learn no more war; but you
and /, in our humble way, can do our
fullest share to hasten such day and
to speed the good time coming.
Remembering that the two enemies Of
prejudice are enlightenment and con-
tact; we can fill our minds with high
thoughts and with a broader culture;
we can aid the cause of education by
our voice, our deeds and our means; we
can bring ourselves into sympathy with
our neighbors and our fellow-b beings
and thus learn to know them more in
timately; we can emphasize in our
hearts the thought that others pos
sess wisdom, goodness and intelligence,
and that, at best, we are the merest
mites in this great world of men and
things. We can search out the good
IN others and respect it, instead of
seeking out the evil and hating it. By
thus walking humbly before God we
can better learn to fill our hearts with
love instead of dislike, with tolerance
instead Of hatred. We can thus hasten
the day when hate shall be no more
and prejudice shall be no more, and
when our children's children may en-
joy the blessing of living in a golden
age, when all men shall look upon each
other as brothers and call God by one
name
The record-union., 1899-09-16

The Bicklayers' and Stonemasons'
Union Of Chicago elected President Nc
Kinley a member of that organization
without consulting him, that he might
perform the ceremony of laying the
cornerstone of the new Federal build
ing in that city without violating the
laws of the union and laying himself
open to be called a scab." What a
farce. The laws We're violated in elect,
ing him in the first place, because the
association code requires that members
even honorary members-must be
craftsmen who have been examined
and found to be skilled in the trade.
Then, again, the President was not con-
suited and consent is essential to VII
tality of membership. But the real
purpose was to corner the President,
for the stone is made by non-union
labor, and if he now lays it he will be
liable to expulsion, say the movers in
this scheme. and then a strike will be
ordered on all Federal stone and ma
sonry work in which the President has
had any part in the matter of laying
corner stones, etc. This is about the
most selfish, assinine and insulting ac-
ton an organization of sane men could
take The thing is so obviously silly,
unmanly and ridiculous that it only
needs to be stated to be seen.
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HEAD-oN COLLISION.
Fireman Seriously Injured and
Other Trainmen Hurt.

About $50 o'clock yesterday morning
there was a head-on collision near
Clarks Station, New, about fifteen
miles east Of Reno. which resulted in
Wrecking both locomotives, seriously
injuring fireman, and severely injur-
ing several others of the crews
The collision was between a lone en-
gine and an engine drawing a passen-
ger coach. Conductor H. P. Steele of
this city was in the passenger coach,
and sustained some severe cuts about
the face and head, and a bad sprain
of the back.
Fireman G.. w. Williams, whose home
IS at Lovelocks. New, had both legs
and one of his arms broken. Just what
are his chances of recovery was not
known by the railroad officials in this
city.
Both engineers escaped with only
slight injuries. Just where the blame
lies is not definitely known.
The record-union., 1899-09-16
THE LATEST YARN.

A Pittsburg drummer tells this new
yarn: / always carry "a bottle, of Kemp $
Balsam in my grip. take cold easily and
me we'll man. EveWwhere / go I speak
a good word for Kemp. take hold of my
customers-I take old men and young
do when take cold. AT druggists, 25c
and SOC.
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Weather Forecast.

Northern California: Fair Saturday;
continued warm weather in the interior,
with light northerly winds; brisk west
erly winds on the coast with fog.
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Notaries Public.

Governor Gage has appointed the fol-
lowing to be Notaries Public: s. f.
Ramage, Davisville; John McConnachie.
Los Angeles; t. NJ Marvis, Napa; f.
B. Power, Nevada City; f. v. Voll-
mer, Paso Robles: Isaac McCandliss
Fielding; H. c. Richardson, Stewart s
Point; c. NJ. c. Peters, jamestown; A.
Caminetti, Jackson; E. S. Rigdon, Cam
bria.
Major General Otis was intended for
a lawyer and graduated from the Har-
ward law school.
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Sister1y Comment.

"She is two-faced that is what she
is!''
We'll, she does enough talking to
keep six ordinary faces busy."-Indian-
apoliS Journal.
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The Rest of This Week Only.

Claret regular 35-cent bottle for 70
cents; eight-year old bonded whisky.
regular S1.25 bottle for 80 cents; fine
old port regular S1.50 a gallon, for ~
cents; all goods guaranteed or money
refunded. The Pacific. J, near Eighth :
The record-union., 1899-09-16

One would scarcely think that in a
proclamation directing a census Of
the people to be taken Cubans could
find cause for distrust Yet the fact
that President Mckinley has ordered a
census of Cuba to be gathered as a pre-
liminary to his duty to establish a
stable Government in Cuba Of and for
Cubans, certain people of that island
take the order to be sinister They ap-
pear to be unable to accord sincerity
of motive to the chief official Of the
United States. These objectors think,
or pretend to think, that by census
enumeration we are endeavoring to as
certain the fighting strength Of the
island, and to determine just what the
capacities Of the people are. On the
other hand the broader minded Cubans
hail the proclamation as indicative of
desire that Cuba shall become speedily
self-reliant, and have ability to stand
alone. No matter what we do in
Cuba we are certain to be sharply crit
icised from some quarter. Our duty
therefore, is to go straight ahead in
preparing the island for independence
and in doing just what our own judg
ment approves regardless of the advice
from either of the several political hosts
Of the island.
The record-union., 1899-09-16
IN HIS OWN HOME.


Evidently in the Capital of Mr.. Bry-
ans own State there is not a great
deal of sympathy with his present
mouthing We are told by dispatches
from Lincoln, that Chaplain Mailley,
himself a Populist who was spiritual
counsellor to- the First Nebraska, made
the opening address before the State
reunion of the Grand Army of the Re
public at that city the other day In
that address he took the most radical
expansion position. declaring that there
should be but one opinion on that
question and that the policy of the Ad-
ministration should be sustained and
have undivided support. He declared
that the war in Luzon is holy one.
and rather than see it have a setback,
he would return to the islands and
fight. These sentiments. we are told
in the dispatches, were echoed by other
speakers at the meeting, and that the
soldiers, Grand Army Veterans and
people generally. applauded them to
the echo. Evidently Mr.. Bryan is not
in favor regarding his assault upon
the Administration. even in his own
home and door yard.
The record-union., 1899-09-16

Call for Glenbrook Whisky, Blauth.
The record-union., 1899-09-16

Arrived. sorosis snoes. welden. 527 K.
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Cat Kills a Rather.

George Mathis, a farmer living near
Red jackets Mound on the Naples
Road, Geneva, N. Y, has a three
old-daughter and large Maltese tom
cat. The child was in the garden
playing with the cat, it's almost con-
slant companion. She saw'a rattle
snake, about four feet along, down the
path. She started toward it to play
with it. The cat looked after her and
saw the snake. As the child ap-
preached, the rattler threw itself into
coil, sounded the alarm and pre-
pared to strike. When the child came
almost within striking distance,
streak of gray flashed through the
air, struck the snakes tail and
bounded to one side.
The rattler turned to attack the cat,
which backed up, yowled and spit.
The child ran screaming toward the
house. Mr.. Matthias, who was close
at hand heard the scream, picked up
a club and ran into the garden. He
saw the snake strike at the cat and
the latter dodge the blow. Before
the snake could recover itself the cat
rushed at the snake, but failed to
secure hold. It bounded out of
danger while the snake recoiled. Mr..
Matthias approached and the snake
turned it's head. The cat rushed
again, caught the snake just behind
tue head and held Oh. The rattler
twisted, wriggled, writhed and rolled
over. 1t threw the cat off its feet two
or three times, but could not loosen
it's hold. In few minutes the rat
tier Strengthened out and lay still ex-
cept for a jerky movement in its tail.
It was dead.
The cat has been snake killer
since it was kitten. Mr.. Matthias
says he would not take $1,000 for it,
New York Sun.
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30, and whether he is unmarried, No

30, and whether he is unmarried. No
married man IL accepted. The shrewd-
ness Of the officer must supplement
the answers he receives, and must
further be called into play to deter
mine at cursory glance whether his
physical characteristics are sufficient
ly near the mark to make it worth
while submitting him to the necessary
examination by the army surgeon.
If he succeed in passing the ser
geant, this examination is the next step
before his final acceptance. Every
morning beginning at half-past eight
the applicants who have passed the
preliminary examination are mustered
before the surgeon. I. Tests are made
of the heart, the lungs, the eyes, the
teeth, the hearing. The body is
stripped and the individual is made to
go through calisthenic exercises.
It is curious fact that more people
fail through defects of the teeth and of
the eyes than any others. Uncle Sam
requires a good digestion and good
eyeslght. The applicant must have al
least two sound pair of molars, each
directly above the other, so that they
can properly perform the function of
masticating the food.
The eyes must be at least three
quarters of the normal. Printed test
cards arc placed at distance of twenty
feet, and the man is made to read let
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has excellent qualifications in other

has excellent qualifications in other
respects.
Then there is the large army of the
unemployed who have no vagrant
habits save those entailed in the
dreary pursuit of work. These are
what the French call conscrits de
faim-conscripts of hunger. Though
they are nominally volunteers, they
are driven into enlisting by that hard
est form of compulsion-starvation.
For one that wants to fight, ninety
nine simply want bread. But if they
have been earnest and willing and
honest in their search for bread, if
they have always purchased it by the
sweat OF their brows, and if they have
the mental, moral and physical quail
Gcations for fighting Uncle Sam will
not deny them the bread which they
are more willing to purchase with
:heir blood.
But not even these form the best
material Which Uncle Sam has thrust
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"I'll be all right to-

of robust health. "I'll be all right to-
morrow"
But the fat had gone out. It could
not be recalled. He went out angrily,
rubbing his eyelids, as though they
were rebellious children who had will
fully brought their parent to shame.
To all the men, indeed, who fail in
the final test, just when acceptance
seems in sight, rejection is crushing
blow. They who survive are proper
tionately jubilant. To each of these
is given meal ticket and a comforta-
bic cot in a room back of the recruit
ing Office which he makes his head
quarters until he is sent off to camp
for the training which will turn mem
Der of the awkward squad into SOL
dier. Then he is ready to be shipped
to the Philippines.
From two hundred to three hundred
men day apply to tho three stations
in New York. but rarely have more
than twenty-five or thirty been Sc
lected.
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Booted Geese.

1t is not generally known that in
Prague there exists goose "bourse, I"
where yearly some three million geese
change hands. Its most active time
lasts generally from about six to eight
weeks, from the middle of Septembe,
till the first days of November. Dur
ing this time immense locks of geese
are driven into the suburbs, especially
from the districts lying on the right
bank of the Weichsel. These are then
conducted st night over the bridges to
the Jewish quarters, the trade being
principally in the hands of the Israel
ties. As the geese are driven in from
long distances they are "shod," that
is to say, walked repeatedly over
patches of tar mixed with fine sand.
This forms a hard crust on the feet oi
the geese, and they, thus ''shod," are
able to cover immense distances with,
out fatigue. - Rumanlsche LloyG
(Bucharest).