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If the plans that are now maturing be
successfully carried out, the problem OF
regulating import traffic so as to minimize
IL as a disturbing factor in West-bound
rates will be solved. Leonard's Railway
News says: For years the question of
controlling traffic from abroad coming
through the different ports has been con-
sidered in an official fashion, but no step
has ever been taken looking to an abandon
ment of the evils growing out of its manip-
ulation. That the volume of business en-
tering the country via the Atlantic ports
was important was not so regarded, but
the privilege enjoyed by import agents
TO manipulate business. with the resulting
tariff disturbances, has been frequently re-
ferred to and assigned as reason for
speedy and effective action looking to
changing of conditions. or late the matter
has been officially considered by the trunk
lines, and while ii was conceded that, Tor
instance, manipulation during the past
year has not been so fragrant as during
the same period in 1899, still the urgency
for concerted action remained present.
The Trunk Line West-bound Committee
had the matter again up for consideration.
and it is expected that the plans proposed
will result in the regulation Of that char
acter of traffic so far as Boston, New YORK,
Philadelphia and Baltimore are concerned
1t is proposed TO have a conference or all
the initial lines running from the Atlantic
ports some time in January, and while 1T
is not expected that the Canadian lines or
the Southern port lines will take kindly to
a plan to regulate their incoming foreign
traffic, ii is believed that they will CO.
operate in a plan that will control import
rates via New York, Philadelphia, Boston
and Baltimore. Under the arrangements
advocated, joint agent may be appointed
on the order of the Buffalo ex-lake grain
plan. and he would see that the interested
lines were properly served" 1t is stated
that the leading through lines are disposed
to look favorably on the proposed reform
or any move that will control import traf-
fic rates 1t is believed that the coming
year new methods will govern rates on
West-bound tonnage TO an extent that
there will be less scheming to get around
tariff schedules.
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TIP" IN THE SOUTH.
New York Press.


The foremost citizen OF north Georgia
says to me: when things get so bad that
I've got to lock my doors and windows
I'm going to move to some other country"
He would be as quick with gun and rope
as any father or husband i'm Dixie in de-
fcnse OF the chastity of the women Of
his family, yet there Is not n negro in
all this region but loves him as the slaves
used 10 love the kind. gentle master. Not
house since he occupied il. Not a win
dow nailed down There is not weapon
OF any kind on the place-no pistol, no rifle,
no shotgun. There Is no bulldog 10 scare
of providers with his nonest bark. There
are no traps in the chicken coop, yet never
does fowl mysteriously disappear. IL is
Gods country.
This contented citizen permits himself to
be imposed upon most numerically by the
aged and INDECENT darkies who lie about
looking for odd jobs One veteran so be-
moaned his fate that he was INDUCED with
a quarter before starting in on the cord of
wood which he had been engaged to cut up.
After chopping one stick he sent word to
che good wife of his employer that he reck-
oned he'd go home and rest, as he was do
ing poorly, etc. She. bless her, knowing
nothing OF the advance installment of a
quarter. said she supposed he wanted his
money: how much? He figured out that 10
cents would be about right. and she en-
tered the house 10 get that sum of her lord.
why. the grand old scoundrelE' the con-
tented CITIZEN tACldlTltu. Il We ALREADY
given him % cents What do you mean by
demanding more money of my wife when
you haven't done lick of work and I've
already given you a quarter he added.
bristling up 10 the darkey. Very humbly
came the reply. BLESS yo' soul, sab. An
ain 'mandin' er akin nuthin'. Yo' wife
asst me ef All didn't want money.
An lowed All wuZ lettin her down easy
when All sed Il cents All hope. sab. we
ain gwiner quawl bout dat. sah." He got
the Is and never finished the job
The solid South is rapidly cisintegrating.
this contented citizen declares. What
agency il at wOrk2 Prosperity. Every
banker in Atlanta voted for Mckinley with
the single exception of one. who controls
a Democratic newspaper. The same might
be said Of bankers in all parts OF this
State The richest county i'm the State
went for Bryan by majority 50 small
that IL will be In the Republican column
IN 1904. Polk county. hitherto Democratic.
went for Mckinley. Think OF that, And
all this without coercion. The leading
Democrats who quit the ranks OF Bryan
Ism and either voted for Mckinley or did
not vote at all say: There Is no more
solid South. Northern sentiment, as we
can get at H. tells Us 10 go ahead and
do as we darn please with the negro ques-
ton and We are doing IT, That question
taken out OF national politics will break
Up the solid South, for the South Is only
solid against the common enemy-the med
ding Yankee politician.
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Thomas Quill. who represents the Chi
cago Great Western at Pittsburg, spent
Christmas with friends in this city.
1t is definitely settled that the Big Four
and other roads running through Spring
field, O., will erect, the coming spring,
union station, the estimated cost of which
Is $1,000
George w. Spencer on Monday became
superintendent at Chicago Junction for the
Baltimore & Ohio lines. He had been
trainmaster at Garrett. Ind.
This year 259 miles OF new railroad were
constructed in Texas and SIS miles add
tional Is practically under contract to be
built in that State In the next eighteen
months
By a decision of the directors of the
American Railway Engineering and Main
tenance of Way Association the next
nual meeting will be held in Chicago,
March Il, IL and IA.
The Baltimore & Ohio. notwithstanding
the large number of new engines ii has
purchased in the last two years. is short
of power. and is leasing engines from the
Lehigh Valley road.
John Player superintendent of machinery
of the Santa Fe lines. will retire from that
position on Jan. on account of i'll health,
and he is succeeded by X. p. Sanderson.
assistant superintendent.
President Ingalls, OF the Big -Four, has
donated half the money necessary to pay
FOR the new building at Bellefontaine erect
Mems Christian Association. and will at
tend the dedication ceremonies on Jan. r.
Stuart r. Knott, president of the Kansas
Southern. passed through the city yester
day en- route TO Louisville. his former
rome. for Christmas. 4. Il. Smythe, gen.
eral freight agent of the same lines, passed
through the city en- route to Tif1n, o.. to
spend Christmas with his parents.
The Indiana. Illinois & Iowa has issued
81 500, 600 first mortgage per cent. fifty
year gold bonds. The fund will be used in
retiring the present Sc. coo. 600 first mort
imburse the company for advances made to
purchase the Streaton & Clinton Railroad
Executive officers OF Western roads have
adopted resolution that on and after
Jan / the car mileage rate for cars of
private ownership shall not exceed ~ mills
per mile for refrigerator and tank cars.
and mills per mile for other than re-
frigerator and tank cars permanent
committee has been appointed to see that
the resolution Is carried out.
Travel i'm the West and Southwest will
be cheap the next four months. as the
several roads interested have set aside
two DAYS OF each month on which tickets
practically to all points I'm that territory
will be sold at fare and one-fifth the
round trip. The tickets will have a long
limit. and will be good to stop off at
principal points. The dates on which these
tickets will be sold Jan. ] and 10, Feb
5 and 10 March and 10 and April and Is.
The annual report of the railroad commits
sioner of the State OF Connecticut lust
published. shows that the year ending June
D. 1890. was of the most prosperous
i'm the history OF the steam roads OF that
state The gross earnings OF all lines were
So. 024 SOL. against ssS. Cos, 732 the previous
year: net earnings. however, increased but
s5i2S49 over the previous year IL costing
7o-A per cent OF the gross earnings To
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tisemenJ were to be put is not revealed.
but they were probably used in making
soft soap. John Tremper tells the people
OF Kingston through the columns of the
Gazette, that he has commenced business
in the mercantile line. and has a general
assortment OF dry goods and groceries.
cash or produce only; cash paid for wheat
and fur
An advertisement that brings to mind a
veritable flood of disagreeable historic
memories Is the following:
For Sale-The one-half of sawmill,
with a convenient place for building, in
the town OF Rochester. By the mill Is an
inexhaustible quantity of pinewood-and
also stout. healthy, active negro wench.
Any person inclined to purchase may know
the particulars by applying TO John Shoon-
maker, at Rochester"
AT the present day one occasionally en-
counters notice similar to the follow
ing:
Second Notice-Of my wife Hannah is
hereby given, forbidding all persons what
ever from harboring or keeping her and
from trusting her on my account. as
am determined 20 pay no debts OF her con-
tracing. MATYS VAN STEENBERGH
.'Sangertiesi livingston Precinct
NOV. $780,
Loose methods in the transaction sac OF
ance in those days as well as at pres
eEt as witness the following:
Notice is hereby given that L shall not
hereafter consider myself responsible for
The receipt or execution of any writ or
process whatever, unless delivered to me
personally, or lodged i'm my Office. fSigned)
Peter Ten Brock. Sheriff Ulster county"
No paper would be complete without
the Advertised Letter List" nor is the
Gazette any exception TO this rule. The
great value of this relic lies not merely IN
the fact that il contains account of
the funeral services over the remains OF
Washington, or in its interesting foreign
news of a hundred years ago, but also
in the wonderful diversity OF its contents.
II one had the power 10 invoke the aid
OF the spirit of the past To furnish him
with any given copy of a paper of bygone
days, he could scarcely obtain issue
that would comprise in so small compass
such faithful reflex Of the character OF
people and the events OF period as that
given in the four pages OF the Ulster Coun-
~ Gazette of Jan. 4. $500.
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Girls Stolen Despite the Vigilance Of
British Cruisers.

Allen Sangree, in Ainslee's Magazine.
And vet the anti-slavery societies cry
wildly that slavery must be eradicated at
Zanzibar, and the civilized world, between
consul and his officers work industriousiy
to that end. 1t is not an easy task, either,
with the number of cruisers supplied. The
territory TO be watched is so wide that the
consul could make use of a small fleet. in
stead of which he usually has one ship.
When was there last summer the Barossa
had the station. but two days after she
sailed north to Mombassa n courier rushed
into the consulate to report that two dhows
with twenty girls had slipped away to
Arabia under cover of moonless night,
and there was no ship to make pursuit.
II is this sea-borne traffic that Is most
difficult to suppress. Just now Tin Decem-
ber), when the southwest monsoon sweeps
the Indian ocean, il is active. The lean
dhows from Muscat steal along the coast,
and, concealed in many creek and river
mouth, wait for their agents inland TO bring
them a cargo. Then, Selling u moment
when the warship is engaged elsewhere
they slip out and dart eastward. The ia
vorfte girls are those captured from the
Nasal and the Boran Calais, whose charms
appeal to Arabian Moslems somewhat as
those of the Circassian women do TO the
Turks The Borans are particularly re-
nowned for their beauty, and a slave thief
will risk his life to obtain one. This tribe.
which occupies the northernmost district
In romance. White men have never reached
its capital, where the stockade or the royal
palace is said TO be OF pure ivory. The
Boran warriors are the only ones IN Africa
who fight on horseback, and such is their
valor that they have time and again re-
pulsed the fierce Somalis from the border
The Nasal girls are considered the equals
of their Boran sisters In attracuveness, but
not in refinement; the latter rumor has it.
practice the rites of Abyssinian Christian
itv and the lost arts OF centuries past. The
Nasal girls are easier 10 capture, and are.
therefore. more common. The tribe was
formerly celebrated for it's vast fiocks and
herds but devastating famine some years
ago left IL almost destitute. The warriors
thereupon began system of raiding on all
sides. and another fierce tribe, the Waki-
kllvu. took advantage OF their absence to
descend on the Nasal. kill off the Old men
and steal all the women ana girls These
are now being disposed of at comparatively
low rates TO local Arab or Swahili middle
men. who retail them at big profit.
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operate the lines, which in the West would
be considered high figure.

operate the lines, which I'm the West would
be considered high figure.
Last year there was not through sleep
Ing car, much less an entire train, in opera
tween that city and Hot Springs. This
season there will be two solid limited pas
senger trains in service between Chicago
and st Augustine and Jacksonville, Fla:
via the Pennsylvania-M onon-Big Four and
Queen q Crescent and the Eastern Illi-
ncis and Louisville * Nashville lines and
three through sleeping car lines between
Chicago and Hot Springs, one each via the
following roads: Illinois Central, Wabash
and Eastern Illinois.
The pension fund plan OF the Pennsyl-
vania lines extends to representatives OF
the Union Star line and affects a number
OF men well known in Indianapolis railroad
circles. OF the number are j. A. Perkins.
formerly division freight agent Of the Pan
handle at Indianapolis. now general agent
or the lines at Milwaukee; Jules G. Lurn-
land, agent at Omaha, retireS and is sue
ceeded by W. NJ. Buchanan, promoted; Z.
w. Patrick, agent at Evansville, is sue
ceeded by w. L. Hague Eighteen Union
Line officials are affected by this pension
fund plan. Many of them have been so
long ir the service OF the company that
their pensions viii be ample to support
them through life
There some railroad men in this sec
ton who seem confident that tariff rates
on packing house products will be MAIN
tanned after Jan. l. while there are many
others who point to the past as an object
lesson. Every packing house in the West
has man whose special business is TO
look after rail rates 10 the seaboard, and
IL ne Is unable to get as low rates as
some OF the opposing packers are supposed
ID enjoy new man is placed at the head of
the transportation bureau, which accounts
for the short time of service many of
these traffic officials are employed by pack
ing houses of Kansas City. Omaha and
Chicago Under such conditions it is very
doubtful II the railroads can carry OUT
their attempts to maintain rates.
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When i'm the dim. gray East shall rise
The morning OF thy birth
When thy first dawn steps from the skies
Upon the hill OF earth
Shall waiting nations breathless stand
Oppressed with haunting fears.
OF what thou holcest in thy hand.
Thou coming Hundred Years?
or shall a glad world welcome thee
With laughter and a song
Thou unborn child OF Destiny
Whose reign shall be SO long,
Who knowsi-we only know that thou
Shalt enter like king
Into thy courts-that We must bow.
What ever thou dost bring.
What matter. whether war or peace
Thy heralds shall proclaim
The story OF the centuries
Is evermore the same
Thy children years shall tell abroad.
Through all thy mighty span.
Naught but the Fatherhood of Cod
The Brotherhood OF Man.
Jennie Belts Hartswick. in the Independent.
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Parallel Case.
Springfield r,

Springfield Republican.
Governor Pingree's attitude toward the
Supreme Court judges WHO disdained the In
vitation 20 his farewell banquet has been
lskened TO that OF Ebert Hubbard and his
fellow Philistines toward Yone Noguchi
the japanese poet. Hubbard rendered a
dinner 10 the poet. but neglected 10 take
HIM into his confidence. When IL was re-
ported to the Roycrofter that his guest
would not be present he replied after this
fashion: 1.-THE Philistines will give dinner
ic honor of Yone Noguchi Thursday
evening Mr.. Noguci may come IN he
chooses. or stay away and be damned"
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the paper is devoted TO the princinal event
OF the time-the death and burial of George
washington. The messages from the Senate
ana House of Representatives to President
leans thia and his reply thereto, concerning
s si sao event. are set out in full. Then
.olloWs unique and graphic account OF
the funeral, which is well worth reproduc-
ing In full. 1t follows:
WASHINGTON ENTOMBED.
Georgetown, Dec 20.
On Wednesday last the immortal part
OF washington the Great-the Father of
ms country and the Friend of Mankind
was consigned to the tomb with solemn
honors and funeral pomp. A multitude of
persons assembled from many miles around
at Mt. vernon, the choice abode and last
residence of the illustrious chief There
were the groves. the spacious avenues, the
peauuful and sublime scenes, the nobler
mansion-but alas the august inhabitant
was now no more. That great soul was
gone His mortal part was there indeed;
but ali, how affecting, how awful the spec
tacle OF such worth and greatness, this to
mortal eyes fallen! Yes, Fallen, Fallen!
IN the long and lofty portico where oft
the hero walked in all his glory now lay
the shrouded corpse. The countenance,
sun exposed and serene, seemed to express
the dignity of the spirit which lately dwelt
In that lfelesS form! There those who
paid the last sad honors to the benefactor
well view
On the ornament at the head of the cof-
fin was inscribed:
SURGE AID JUDICIUM.
About the middle of the coffin:
GLORIA DEC.
and on the silver plate:
GENERAL
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Departed this life on the 18th of December.
1893, Aetat. 6S.
Between and o'clock the sound of the
artillery from a vessel in the river firing
minute guns awoke afresh our solemn sor-
row-the corpse was removed-a band of
music with mournful melody melted the
soul into all the tenderness OF woe. The
procession was formed and moved on in the
following order:
Cavalry \
d Gaara with arms reversed
Music.
Clergy.
The Generals horse. with his saddle. hol
sters and pistols.
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wANTEp-FEMALE HELP.

women TO sell Happiness at
Home" 1000 Of premiums. One with each
paper. LIS Virginia avenue.
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SEALED PROPOSALS.


NOTICE.
The Board OK Trustees Of the Central Indiana
Hospital for Insane will receive sealed proposals
until Friday. Dec. p, at 10 a.. for furnishing
a full line OF supplies for the month OF Janu-
airy. 1901.
Reqcisition book will be on file at Room A.
Statehouse, from and after Monday. Dec. "a
1900 By Order Of Board OF Trustees.
Depot Q. NJ. Dept, Jacksonville. Ind,
Nov. IS, 1So0.-Sealed proposals in duplicate,
will be received here until 10 O'Clock a. m.
Central standard time). Dec "a. 1900. for the
sale OF Duck and Flannel Cuttings All infor-
nation furnished on application The right
Is reserved TO reject or accept any or all pro-
posals or any part thereof. Envelopes contain
ing proposals should be marked Proposals for
Purchase OF Cuttings" and addressed 10 the
undersigned. c. r. BARNETT, Deputy Q. NJ.
General
Depot O. NJ. Dept, Jacksonville, Ind. Dec. 49,
1soe-seaied proposals, in triplcate. will be re-
ceived here until 10 o'clock a. m Central stand
ard timel Jan. T. 1871; for furnishing 200 Army
right 10 reject OF accept any or all proposals OF
any part thereof. Information furnished on ap-
pitcation- Envelopes containing proposals should
be marked Proposals for Escort Wagons" etc.
and addressed c. X. BARNETT. Deputy Q. M.
General
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The Lady Mob.


Baltimore American
Women in Kansas City wanted TO get up
q lynchlng party 20 lynch a woman accused
OF murder And so the latter-day ciylliza-
ton thrives apace. now that Il has accom-
piished the evolution OF the lady mob.
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FOR SALE.
Z DEL MONTE STABLES.
WWW~w.asDAw

FOR SALE
THE DEL MONTE STABLES.
61z HUDSON ST,
will have for sale the first OF the week fifteen
head Of r0adsters, coach horses and workers
One pacing mare, i've years old, Is hands high.
and has been miles in 2:1J half-mile track;
one pair OF coach horses trot in three min
utes together. i've years old and sound; one
trotter that can trot ia 2:12 and one that can
tr0t in 2:15: three geldiDgs that can trot in
three minutes. c. ID. CLANCY co.
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The following shows the results of opera
ton of the Lake Erie & Western for the
year 1900, the last fifteen days of December
being estimated, and it will be seen that
the year just closing was one OF the most
prosperous in the roads history:
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'3H per cent.

The earnings now published for 1899 do
not agree with those issued in the 1899 an
nual report.
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STORAGE.
NOTICE.

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NOTICE-JOSEPH GARDNER, tin work and
furnaces, 90 Kentucky ave. Telephone SZ2
WANTED-Do not freeze. but keep warm see
Indiana Oil Burner, at 20 East ohio street
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much the same as lock on your door.
You may not need it very often, but
when you DO need it, you need it bad.
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The Generals horse. with his saddle. hol-
sters and pistols.