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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29
INCREASED FARM VALUES

It was the com plant of the farmer
four years ago that, while everything
which he needed for his maintenance
and comfort in the way of mauufac-
tured articles had risen in price, the
products offered for sale by him had
fallen. He declared that the laws of
the land had been framed in the in
terest of capital, so that dollar would
buy more wheat, land and other prop
erty, whereas the earning capacity Of
money remained uudiminished or had
advau ced.
This plea, il it was ever sound,
no longer possesses any justification.
1t is estimated that the produce OF
United States farms last year WAS
worth 81, 500. 900, 600 more than in any
of the depressed years, an average ad-
vance of 81 per cent. In the total
live stock leads with $780,
900, 900, staple crops with $500, DOC, 900,
other crops with 5000, 0O0,O 900, and the
produce OF live stock and the output of
dairies with $500, 900, 600 The price of
cattle has advanced IS per cent above
the low point OF 1893, while milch COWS
are worth As per cent more than in
1892 and 53 per cent more than in 1896
Farm real estate is estimated to have
made up all it lost aud to have risen
81 22O, OoO,O 900 above the valuation of
1889.
Nor is this all. Cotton now brings
almost twice as much as it did one year
ago, having gone up from five cents to
somewhat less than ten cents, and the
staple is likely to command still higher
prices. Wheat, corn, oats, rye and
other cereals bring excellent returns.
The country reioices in the farmers
prosperity, and especially so because it
has thoroughly disposed of the free
silver fallacy.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29
On the Republican Leaders And
On the Republican Situation In
Texas
Special Correspondence of the HERALD.

Special Correspondence of the HERALD.
AUSTIN, Tex, March 24.-Editor
HERALD: The Waco convention has
come and gone. 1t was double bar
relied affair aud has caused much i'll
feeling among republicans. There
seems to be rule or RUM element
in our party determined to stide the
voice of the me- ority. 1t was evident
to every one at the Waco convention
that Ferguson WAS the choice for
temporary chairman, but this fact did
declaring Mcdonald elected Such
arbitrary rulings do not often succeed
and il is quite evident at this writing
that when the national committee re-
views the matter full Justice will be
done.
AS Il result of the election, and the
subsequent action taken by several
congressional conventions, it now
looks as though State Chairman
Green will have bigger fight on his
hands in short time than when Dr.
Grant and he were pitted against each
other. This time Congressman Haw-
ley will be likely to take up the cudgel,
and If he does there can be no doubt of
the result. Hawley is square man 10
business aud politics He believes in
the majority ruling, and whatever
may be the result he will be found in
the future, as in the past, unflnching
for the right. Republicans of Texas
ought to feel proud of their one con-
gresham. He has done, and is still
doing, more for this state than the
dozen democrats who are his col
leagues. Talk to the business men of
Galveston and they will tell you that
the commercial interests of that dis
trict could have no better representa-
tive than r. B. Hawley.
L notice that J. A. Smith tried to
pour oil on the troubled waters at
Waco and succeeded IN doing some
good. Smith Is always practical.
CORRALITOS.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29
CONDITION OF CUBA.

General Emilio Nunez, civil governor
of the province Of Havana, is visiting
Washington, and in an interview con-
corning the situation In Cuba, he said !:
"Cubs is in what may be called pros
porous condition today when compared
with her ondition twelve months ago,
for at that time no less than 80, 900 peo-
pie might have been seen on the streets
begging for bread and pleading for
work, whereas today it is a rare thing
to encounter "a beggsr on the streets
and the people are generally employed
on the tobacco and sugar crops" In a
subsequent interview he said:
The condition of the country fnan-
cially, industrially and politically is
showing marked provement. The
tobacco crop this year will be as big as
ever it was before the war, aggregst-
ing 600, 600 bales, valued at S24 900, 600.
On account of the extreme dry season,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29

REPRESENTATIVE SULZER. of New
York, has made strenuous efforts to
utilize the Idaho investigation for the
ma nufacture of political capital for the
democratic party, and he seemed to
get along swimmingly until he struck
snsg in the person of Gov. Steunen-
berg. It happens that Steunen berg
was elected as democrat and fusiOnlst
and when he appeared on the witness
stand he boldly and manfully assumed
entire responsibility for all the social
ed outraees perpetrated in connection
with the Occur d'Alene mining
troubles. Sulzer had been trying to
fastep the response bility upon the
republican administration at Washing
ly nonplussed him. 1t has proved to
be a complete boomerang to the demo-
cratic section of the Investigating COM
mitsee. They thought they hed'unearth-
ed.a rich mine of repu blicsn tyranny"
when, 10 and behold. man elected by
forward and shoulders the whole
blame, If blame there is. Partisan
ship should have been kept out of the
investigation, the probing should be
upon the merits of the case-but since
Sulzer went out for republican scalps
it is rather amusing to see him return
ing with the solitary top knot of the
most prominent democrat and populist
in the state dangling at his belt.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29

ONE Jack Carr, United States mail
carrier in Alaska, says he has been in
all parts of the world, ard has travelled
more miles in Alaska than any other
living man, and he AYERS that the
climate of Alaska is pleasant and
agreeable, and preferable to any other.
He says: 'If you will go with me to
Cape Nome, 100 miles from St.
Michaels and 1900 miles west of the
Klondike, you will find instead of Ice
and snow an evergreen country of
beautiful grasses: remarkably
regular summer climate of almost
perpetual daylight, and you will see
miles and miles of gold baaring coui-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29

try and the sands of the ocean at low
tide producing thousands OF dollars a
day. You will see at Cape Nome City,
which was barren of houses in 1898, .
place of 10000, where fortunes are
made in q year"-in all kinds of bust
ness as well as in mining. He advises
energetic young men to 60 to Alaska,
and asserts that it is possible to live
more cheaply there than in the states,
despite the high price of provisions, II
one will discard all attempts to keep
up "style." Jack must have some
claims he wants to sell cheap.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29
SOME REMARKS

Mr.. MACaUM is very amusing.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29

WHAT an important little instrument
the telephone is, The governor of
Monta Ia recently stopped hanging by
telephone. If the girl had said: Lines
busy"-but she didn't. The usefulness
of the telephone was further illustrat-
ed few days ago by Ben carp at the
Reynolds Brothers Y ranch, near
Kent, where be entertained a couple
of enterprising young men (who had
borrowed two horses until the wires
brought an officer to the scene to ar
rest them. The story is ntertsiningly
told today by the special correspondent
OF the HERALD at Kent.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29
ADVERTISING RATES.

Rates of advertising in the Daily or Weekly
aERALD will be made known upon appltca-
Non at the business Office. Those who pre-
fer can have a representative of the business
department. call upon them. who will quote
prices and make contracts for space. Call
telephone No. 115-
Classified advertisements locals. ten
lD cents per line for first insertion and FIVE
fS cents for each additional insertion.
pecial rates upon Eve hundred ZOO or one
thousand QeOO) lines of local. to be used in
one month. will be. furnished upon appltca-
zion.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29

THE circulating medium had already
begun to increase before the passage
of the currency act The banks have
added some SIC, 900, 900 to their circu-
lation since the end of January, and
there Is also continuous increase of
gold from the product of the mines.
The minis are busy, and there will be
gold money enough to redeem all the
currency that the banks may issue.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29

the sugar crop will be small, but the
planters hope to do better next year.
The great trouble in every branch
of industry and trade in Cuba Is the
scarcity of working capital. Planters
whose estates were damaged during
the war have not the means to repair
these losses, aud this is true in every
line of business. There are excellent
opportunities for American capitalists.
Havana has already shoe factory and
a brewery operated by Americans, and
every branch OF manufacture awaits
development. Tobscco and sugar
plantations also require ready cash to
be worked to advantage.
When asked If Americans were en-
bracing these opportunities, General
Nunez replied:
Slowly. The trouble is, it seems to
be the opinion among Americans that
conditions in Cuba are unsettled and
will remain so until the form OF gov
eminent becomes decided upon. Such
is not the case.
Cuba is one OF the richest islands on
the face of the ear tn, and its nearness
to the United States makes its lands
and all its enterprises 80 much the
more valuable. But as Governor Nunez
says, the island will not prosper as it
deserves to prosper until there Is
settled government. There can be no
doubt that In the course of time the
island will be annexed to the United
States. Many believe that If the vote
were to be taken tomorrow the apnexa-
ton proposition would pass by an
overwhelming majority. 1t seems,
therefore, that the sooner the in
habitants of the island take this course
the better 1t will be for them.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29

HARPER'S Bazaar reminds Ameri-
cans of the fact that we have 100, 900
soldiers away from home doing army
service in the Philippines, Cuba and
Porto Rico, and that although our
people have contributed $40. 900 to help
British soldiers. they have not applied
one cent to the needy homes of our
own absent soldiers. Charity should
begin at home in such "a case, most as
suredly
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29

REFERRING to the profits of S2l O00,-
900 on capital of S25, 900. 900 earned
by the Carnegie company last year and
to the estimated. profits of $40 900, 900
for this year, the New York CORES
pondent of the Philadelphia Ledger
gives some figures upon the earnings
of mercant tile establishments that are
that the actual investment of the Car
negie company is much larger than
S25, 600, 900. The correspondent says
his statement was prepared by a lead
ing banker of New York, and was
based On returns made by some of the
largest mercantile houses in the coun-
try. The statement shows the business
of sixty leading concerns, in fifteen
trades and fourteen different states, in
the territory extending from New
York to Colorado, and from Georgia to
Minnesota. The trades represented
are wholesale and retail dry goods,
wholesale groceries, tobacco, cigars,
silks, hardware, furniture, packing,
gloves, clothing, leather, cloaks, collars
and cuffs and boots and shoes These
firms have an aggregate capital of
S122, 1872 900, an average of 81 156, 600
for each firm. The net profits in 1899,
according to this correspondent.
amounted to the enormous sum of
S35, 225, 900. The rate of profit was %
61O per cent.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29

CECIL RHODES estimates that the
Beers have never had in the field
more than 10000 men of their own,
foreign ecruits-making in ali 40, 900.
Mr.. Rhodes frankly adds that the
num- ers of the Boer army have been
exaggerated in order to explain the
British defeats.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29

THE social democracy which recent
ly nominated E. V. Debs for president.
has a record at 33. 545 votes for its can
didste at the last general election. 1t
had $3.50 in Massachusetts,, 2600 in
Wisconsin, 100 in Missouri and 400 in
New Hampshire.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29

IN Kansas City political row seven
teen shots we're fired, and no one was
hurt. What wretched Workmanship
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29

TO ADVERTISERS.
In order to insure proper changes in adver-
sising, COPY for same should be at the busi-
aess Office not later than 10 a
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02
DEVICES FOR FEEDING.
Little COntriynnccs Which, Though
Seemingly Unimportant, Are
Grent Labor savers.

The principal employment of farm"
Crs for the next three months will lie
caring for their live stock. Anything
that will facilitate the work of feed
ing is in order. Two convenient home
made tools are illustrated in Fig. I.
A is a half-peck feed box, made fro1n
piece of stove pipe. The bottom is
piece of one-quarter-inch board tit
ted nicely in the pipe and well nailei
to its place. The top should be bert
over n ring of No. wire to give 1t
sufficient strength. To hold the even
half peck for seven-inch pipe, the
depth should be just seven inches. Ii
is a grain scoop for filing sacks, eto'
II is made from piece OF sheetiron
Is inches long by IA inches wide. the
be st way to fasten the sides to the
crosspiece is to bore hole through
il. from end to end and draw the
sides up with small bolt. The
handle is attached to this cross-piece
and to the end piece, as shown. The
edges of this, also, should be wired.
Spouts with "cut offs" for drawing
small grains, ground feed, etc, from
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02
HIS MISTAKE
An American Girl Gives an Engiish-
man a Littic Light on
Ladies',

A Louisville girl, who was recently in
Germany, met a young English officer who
was in the same city, and, in fact, in the
same house with her for two mon tbs study
ing German for his promotion. like most
Europeans he had the usual absurd ideas
about the girls of this country, who, in the
minds of the untraveled foreigner are rather
hoyden creatures who smoke and have other
masculine traits.
After dinner one day, in the early ac.
quaintance of the couple, the officer offered
the Louisville girl cigarette, and, upon her
refusing IT, he said:
"Why, ! thought all the girls in the
United States smoked"
$50 we do replied the girl, "but never
cigarettes; only pipes. If you will get that
pipe off the mantelpiece in the next room
shall be charmed to smoke with you"
Not suspectng the joke she was playing
on him, the officer brought the pipe and
filled it, and il was not until he saw the wry
faces his friend iaade in attempting to carry
out the joke that he appreciated the situa.
ton, He was continually telling the Ameri-
ran in a tone of surprise that she was just
like the girls at home in England, and her
rejoinder was:
Lieutenant, don't you think a lady is q
lady the world over"-Louisville Courier
Journal
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02
IMITATION BUTTER.
every Pound of Ii should Have
stamped on Ii the ingredients
of Which II Is Composed.

The healthfulness Of oleomargarine
is question that is constantly being
considered. The difficulty of properly
answering the question is increased by
the fact that the oleomargarine of to-
day is not necessarily the oleomargar-
inc of tomorrow. and the oleomargar'
inc that is turned out by one factory
is not the same as that turned ont by
another. Chemists have now discov.
cred that some oleomargarne contains
paraflin, to give it firmer composition.
Paraiiin by itself is indigestible, and il
may also be indigestible when incor-
porated with the fats that compose
oleomargarine, but we are not yet GER
tain of that point, for the reason
that no one appears to have investigat-
ed what paratlin will do in such com
bination. 1t may be less harmful than
by Itself or it may be more harmful.
with fat permits some of il TO get
through the tissues with the fat, and
there it may work all kinds of mis-
chief-or it may not. However, people
do not care to take their chances on
such uncertainties. 1t is manifestly
the duty of the government to ascer-
tain such facts for the people. If par
afiln is to be sold as butter we should
at least know what effect ii will have
when taken into the human system.
We believe that every pound of cleo
margarine that goes out should have
stamped on the package containing it
the ingredients that are used in its
manufacture, including all the preserv-
atives.-Farmers' Review.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02

There are only two carriages in town.
One belongs to the archbishop, and the
other carriage is the property of the
government and one of the perquisites
that pertain to the presidential power.
1t is an ordinary landau imported from
Paris in pieces and put together by 10.
cal talent, and a native artist has paint
ed upon the panels of the doors a bril-
liant reproduction of the coat of arms
of the republic, about foot square, in
the national colors-green, yellow ard
red. This is greatly admired by the
populace. who see the carriage only oc.
casionally, on state occasions, when il
is drawn by four big black horses wear.
ing harness heavily mounted with sill
yer and decorated with rosettes, tassels
and streamers of the national colors.--
La Paz Bolivia) Cor. Chicago Record.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02
To Mnster Il Kicking Cow.

There are few things around farm
that are more eXasperating than a
balky horse or a kicking COW. No
trouble will be had with the latter if
this plan is tried: Take two straps
with a buckle on the end of each
Buckle one Of them about the animals
hind legs just above the big joint and
back of the udder. This should not be
loose enough to slip over the joint, and
not tight enough to prevent slipping
the other strap through it. Slip the
second strap through the first and
then buckle around the other leg the
same as the first, and draw up until the
legs are held close together. You can
then proceed in safety with the milk
ing. Your COW will neither kick nor
run away. L. Irwin, in Ohio Farmer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02
DEVICES FOR FEEDING.

bins on higher level, are quite Com
mon but such ccnveniences are not so
common about corn-crbs. Fig. 2 rep
resents a form of spout or shoot by
which corn can be drawn from a
crib very nicely. The opening in the
crib should be not less than 16 inches
square and the shoot, the same size,
is set sloping down at an angle of
10 degrees. 1t should be about two
feet long. The bottom is in two
pieces, the lower half being hinged to
the upper. To shut off the corn, this
portion of the bottom is simply
turned up and hooked. A, Fig. ?,
shows the shoot with the top off and
the bottom let down. b shows the
shoot closed. Two or three shoots
like this along the side of a crib will
save a great deal of shoveling and of
lifting also. if the crib is so situated
that the corn can be run directly into
a sled or wagon.-Albert Rex, in Ohio
Farmer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02
Parts of Trees Hearing.

There are many apple trees that bear
from one-third to one-half a crop every
year, the portions being barren al
ternately, so that the tree is never en-
trely barren. This is apt to be the case
where different varieties are grated on
the same tree, and especially if the
gilfting is done in alternate years. In
other cases cold storms or frost in the
early life of the tree destroyed the fruit
at blossoming time on the exposed side
Of the tree, and as in the years that a
full crop is produced on the limbs in
bearing there is little chance for fruit
buds TO be formed on those parts of the
rec and the habit of bearing alternate
years formed by accident becomes full.
~ established.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02
SepInp nv Wire.

Nearly two years ago it was an
nounced with some sensation in most Of
the daily newspapers that a certain
Jan Szczepanik had invented an appa.
ratus for seeing by wire, much in the
same way as one can hear by wire
through the medium of telephone.
The publication of his patent, in due
course, however, revealed nothing more
than the old selenium cell idea of ply.
sicians in a dress of no very startling
novelty, and it was fair to surmise that
Szczepanik was no different from the
nany working at this enticing problem
except in 50 far as he had been indis.
Greet enough TO make a premature an.
nouncemen. of success.-London Elec
trioity.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02

There is more Catarrh in this section OF
the country than all other diseases put to.
gether, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great many
years doctors pronounced it a local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con.
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by +. j.
constitutional cure on the market. 1t IS
taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a
teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi.
monials Address F. j. Cheney & Co., To.
ledo, o. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02
The Craving for stimuInnts.

This question has lately attracted great
deal of attention from the medical profession.
The use of stiinuants seems to be increasing
This clearly shows an exhausted condition Of
the nerves and blood, which may be RENE
died only by strengthening the stomach.
Hostetters Stomach Bitters will do this for
you. 1t brings all the energy OF stimulant
with no injurious effect, 1t cures dyspepsia,
constipation and nervousness.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02
A Tran of Her own Setting.

We have all met people whose pride in
their possessions is so great that they can see
no charms in those of others. A young bota.
mist was showing party of ladies and gen,
tlemen through a conservatory of some OF
the choicest plants. Among the visitors was
a would-be younglooking, mddle-aged lady
who at every description volunteered the
statement that the plants and flowers she
had at home were quite the equal of any.
thing here or indeed anywhere.
Just as they were passing a giant cactus
she was heard to exclaim:
well, this is nothing extraordinary. |
have a cactus at home that is still larger.
planted and reared it myself"
Reared it YOURSELF" the professor
gently observed. "How remarkable This
specimen is 63 years old, and if yours is still
larger"
The lady did not stay to hear any more,
but executed a strategic movement to the
rear.-Philadelphia Press
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02
just Like a Razor.

The. other day man walked up to the
cashiers desk in large stookbroking con-
Germ and asked for pen to indorse note.
70 his disgust, the pen sputtered, blotting
his signature, and he threw it aside with the
popular exclamation:
Hair on it,
mo wonder" one of the bystanders re.
marked, when it is shaving notes all day."
Chicago Chronicle.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02
A Meddjesome Amateur.

Uncle Bill, what is a political love feast %
well, it is when big lot of politicians
get together and pledge themselves to keep
outsiders from getting on to their scraps."-
Indianapolis Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02

The tonnage of the whole mercantile
steam marine Of Russia, Japan or Hol
land does not equal the tonnage of the
merchant vessels taken over by the
English government as TRANSPORTS.