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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-24
Good Attractions.

The Lyman Twins in that famous
musical comedy, GA Merry Chase, "
which comes to the opera house
November 28th, and the Carpenter
Company in "For Her Sake, which
gives a performance here December
5th, have been playing to large au-
diences through the state. Both
are good attractions and the people
of Waxahachie will make nc mis-
take if they attend them when they
come to this city.
We come after and take you any
and everywhere. Try our prompt
ness. NJ. NJ. Mosiey d Son. u
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Attention.

Cadips ed Gents clothing cleaned,
pressed, repaired. Clothing made &c
order. S4c, d hand clothes bought
and sold. 4 hare of your patron.
age solicited J. > Perrin, tt
2i3 East Main I.
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W. A. Herren of Finch, Ark,
writes, 81 wish to report that
Foley's Kidney Cure has cured a
terrible case of kidney and bladder
trouble that two doctors had given
up" Sold by b. w. Fearis.f
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Phone us TO. meet your Thanks
giving visitors. oar cab meets all
trains at all hours of the night as
well as day. NJ NJ. Mosley q Son.
o.
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Look Here

Rosser Gin Co. sells Coal, Corn
and Oats. Will not be undersOld.
Free delivery to any part Of the
globe. w
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Foley's Honey and Tar always
stops the cough and heals the lungs.
Refuse substitutes. Sold by b. w.
Fearis.
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We win appreciate your patronage
and influence. Our aim is to aeco-
modate and treat you, right. Both
phones. NJ. NJ. Mosley d Son. o.
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The Light Want column is read
az the young and the old.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-24

one dollars worth of goods for
30 cents the first week in December
at the Nickel store Buy there. save
money and get first choice. d01wi3
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Licensed to Wed.

Henry NJ. Levy and Miss Belle
Neal.
w. F. Hagood and Mrs. +. A.
Thomas.
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Try a want ad tomorrow and see,
Douglas Island news., 1902-02-26
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. Information for Everybody.

The new hotel at Valdez is nearing completion.
 There will be 15 steamers on the Se- attle-Nome run this year.
 Eighty cents an hour are the prevail ing wages paid in Dawson.
 Skagway's school held memorial ex- ercises on Lincoln's birthday.
 Now a Skagway Indian has been ar rested for practicing witchcraft.
 The Nome feet in it's first sailing ex- poets to handle 5000 passengers.
 c. Grant Perkins, a prominent mill man, died Dawson, January 31st.
 Sea Level mining stock at 50 cents per share looks like good investment.
 The gold commissioners force at Dawson has been reduced from 30 to 20.
 A deal, involving quarter of mil lion dollars, is on in the Porcupine dis trict.
 Up to Dec. 9th the coldest weather experienced in the Koyukuk was 45 below. The Alaska Prospector is the name Of new paper about to be launched at Valdez.
 The future of the great North de- pends upon it's quartz and not upon it's placers.
 Valdez has been enriched to the ex- tent of s25O by the collection of dog licenses.
 Promising discoveries are reported from Lake Clarke in the Cook Inlet district
 The mill and improvements at the Sea Level will cost in the neighborhood of s1Oo,OOo.
 Dawsonites are seeking a government appropriation for building road from White Horse.
 Three Washington steamboat menare going to build s5o,oOo steamer for Alaskan waters.
 Hon. Clifford Sifton says that the royalty on gold will be reduced 50 per cent this season.
 The log hotel-6O x 78-at Eureka Landing, on the Big Salmon trail, is nearing completion.
 There was two feet and seven inches of snow on the townsite in Valdez the latter part of January.
 It is rumored in Skagway that the steamer Humboldt has been purchased by the Alaska s. s. Go.
 A match game of base ball was play ed in Ketchikan February 12th. A rep resentative of the New York World took snap shot at the exhibition,
Douglas Island news., 1902-02-26

First class fare from Seattle to Nome this season, on first sailings S2OO and second class S125.
 Sitka claims to have the best equip ped postofffce in Alaska since it has it's new lock boxes in place.
 The steamer Jeanie, after one trip to Nome will be transferred to the Southeastern Alaska run.
 The Alaska Mining & Milling Co.,, of Ketchikan, has listed it's stock on the Portland mining exchange.
 The Olympic Mining company, oper- ating near Wrangel, is installing quantity of new machinery.
 A party of eight that recently arriv- ed in Skagway from Dawson, had S5O,- GOO in gold dust with them.
 Sam SiIverman has secured bond on the Reed, James and Gervais prop erty, in the Ketchikan district.
 Between 25 and 30 new houses have been erected in Bettles, the Koyukuk district metropolis, since Oct. 25th'
 A socialist colony is to be established in the Klondike, men and women to share and share alike in it's benefits.
 A new placer camp has been discov- cred on Peace river, in British Colum- bia, that pays S35 per day to the man.
 Panama Indians are supplying Ram part miners with caribou and moose meat at from 40 to 50 cents per pound.
 The light house on Sentinel Island has been turned over to the care of light-keeper Mcbride and his assist ant.
 A mine on Skowl Arm has showing in nickle. A part of the ledge runs from 1114 to 21I per cent in that min eral.
 J.C. Heney has submitted report to the Rothchilds of the estimated cost of railway from Valdez to the Yu- kon.
 The Skagway mining committee on the 2Oth inst. had 1,695 for the devel- opment of the property it recently ac- quired.
 Messrs. Coleman and Carroll, of Dawson have contracts for the delivery of $50 cases of eggs at that point in March.
 The Alaska Yukon Mining Journal says that the actual output of the Klondike last season did not exceed s14,5Oo,OOO,
 A sportsman showed up on the streets of Douglas the other day with 125 ptar- migan, which he readily disposed of at 20 cents each.
 A smelter test of S126 per ton is re- ported from quartz taken from group of claims near the Dome, in the Klon- dike district.
 The Southeastern Alaska Mining Co.,, is the name of new Portland organi- zation which will operate in the Wind ham Bay district.
 The officials of the W. PAIR R.R. and the traffic manager of the Cana dian government railways have reached an agreement relative to freight and passenger rates. The new schedule has not yet been announced.
Douglas Island news., 1902-02-26

The Ketchikan Journal says that Blanchard and Stevens have shipped five ton of ore from their mine at the head of Skowl Arm. The ore averages by assay g per cent copper, s6 in gold and $4 in silver.
 The Valdez News says that Charles Hammond, of Hammond Bros., the packers who operated pack train to the interior last year, arrived on the Excelsior with his horses and outfit and will continue in the business this year.
 The Valdez News says that Messrs Davis and Murphy will open a hotel at Copper Center, and that they will establish a road house at Tonsina. They have also secured a franchise to operate ferry across the Copper river near the mouth of the Tonsina.
 The Atlin Board of Trade, recogniz- ing that in the past, capital had been drawn from the district by the indis- criminate jumping of claims, has taken steps to prevent reoccurrence of this practice this season. An example will be made, if necessary, of some of the more prominent offenders in this direc- tion.
 M. E. Warren, who has been working for quite awhile on hillside claim ad- joining No. 6, on Seven Pup, a tributa- ry of Victoria Gulch, in the Klondike, has been rewarded by striking excel lent pay. Seven Pup has the distinct feature off being in any manner like other creeks, inasmuch as pay is found in slide which has no wash gravel.
 James De Lemare, manager of the big French syndicate operating on Boulder creek in the Atlin district, be- fore he left for Paris last fall, offered mining engineer all the gold he could take out this winter if he would develop the claim in a certain direction. He struck pay almost at once and has 50 men at work who are hauling up dirt that runs S5 to the bucket.
 Jim Hayden came up on the Thom- son from Virgin Bay, says the Valdez News. He reports things quite lively at that place. Work is progressing rapidly on the new wharf, and new ma chinery is being installed in the Glad hough works. Toredo proof piles are being put in the new wharf, as the own CTS do not intend to have this one col lapse in few months, as did the old one.
 Stamp mills in operation and in course of construction in quartz mines in Alaska are as follows: Windham Bay, 10; Sumdum, 15; Snettisham, %; Sheep Creek, 30; Douglas Island, 8S0; Ebner Gold Mining Co.,, 15 and 9 under construction; Nowell Go. 10; Silver Bow Basin, 35; Perseverance Mining Co.,, preparations under way for 200; Rod man Bay, 200; Yankee Cove, 5; Berner Bay, 35; Seward City, 70; Funter Bay, 10; Sea Level, 30; sundry small mines constructing an aggregate of 2o5. To- tai number 1900.
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Douglas Island news., 1902-02-26

To Jack Dalton, the "path finder" it is said belongs the credit of gaining the first knowledge of the copper deposits of the Copper and Tanana rivers.
 It is becoming evident that the W. P. & Y. R. R. will have to extend it's road to the interior or find the ground cut from under them by rival company.
 The steamer Clutch, which has been thoroughly overhauled and repaired, has received an American register and will be placed on the Seattle-Skagway run.
 Commissioner Gerton tells the Skag- way Alaskan that snow is piled in Por- cupine City in drifts IS to 20 feet deep, and that snow on the level is six feet deep.
 From 25O to 300 cords of wood are burned in Dawson daily and it keeps 1000 men employed during the winter to keep the supply equal to the de- mand.
 The Gladhough mine at Virgin Bay has installed 60-horse power hoisting machine, a 13 9 Rand air compressor and a full complement of drilling machines.
 In the basket ball tournament just closed at Skagway, the Bremen, team composed of employees of the w. P. < Y.R. R., won the trophy. Four teams contested.
 The sleigh bringing Gov. Ross and party from Dawson to White Horse was overturned and went down a fifty-foot embankment at Four Mile Hill. Luck fly, no one was injured.
 A great portion of Dominion, two years ago was considered worthless, now. according to Dawson advices re- ceived by the Skagway Alaskan, 1000 men are employed there.
 G. N. Arbuckle, of the Dawson Mug get. who recently went south, says there will be a great exodus from Dawson to Koyukuk in the spring, and that the Stewart river stampede is still on.
 A strike of gold quartz on Pine creek in the Atlin district, resulted in trac- ing the lead distance of 15 miles. At the discovery point the ore assays SloOO to the ton, with large amount in sight.
 Following Skagway's lead, Juneau is discussing the advisability of organiz- inc a Miners Association for the encouragement and development of prospecting and mining in tributary territory.
 The steamer Nome City, which is ad- vertised to sail from Seattle on April 21st, offer rebate on passenger and freight rates if that vessel is not the first to drop anchor in Nome harbor this spring.
 One of the finest quartz nuggets ever found in the Yukon district was found on John Days bench claim the right limit opposite the lower half of No. l7, Eldorado, says the Dawson Nugget. The nugget weighs S13l and has the appearance of having not travelled any great distance. The white rock is heav- fly filled with gold, shell of gold pro- iecting from the rock, showing where the rock had fallen from its place.
Douglas Island news., 1902-02-26
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NI LIVER WARE, Tea Sets, Water A Sets, Comb and Brush Sets, Smok
 ing Sets. ALASKA JEWELRY yCO., Juneau, Alaska.
Douglas Island news., 1902-02-26

Douglas Aerie, No. ny, F. O. E. Meets every Sunday at Ohman's Hall atz o'clock D. m.
 All visiting Brothers invited to attend.
 ELMER E. SMITH, W. P. RUDOLPH c. TROLL, Worthy Sec'y.
Douglas Island news., 1902-02-26

To Jack Dalton, the "path finder" it is said belongs the credit of gaining the first knowledge of the copper deposits of the Copper and Tanana rivers.
Douglas Island news., 1902-02-26

It is becoming evident that the W. P. & Y. R. R. will have to extend it's road to the interior or find the ground cut from under them by rival company.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-19

world except Belgium, half Of whose trade con
ssts of goods in transit to and from the north.
western and central parts Of Europe The Aus.
tralian figures Of total trade for 1890 are $685..
100000, equal to about $50 per capita. The
showing would be still more favorable except
for the heavy fall in the prices Of produce be.
tween 1881 and 1891 and the financial crisis OF
1875. From 1894 to 1909 the recovery has been
rapid, thus auguring well for the future OF the
commonwealth, whose total trade with all other
countries for 1909 was S4s5 or about $40
per head Of the population
Prior TO the year 1888 the European trade of
Australia was confined almost exclusively to Great
Britain, but since then it has been changing
As compared with 1891 the year 1890 shows a
decrease with Great Britain OF liz per cent
an increase with the British possessions of 80 10
per cent and with every other countries OF
5870 per cent.
Every year steamers of greater tonnage and
higher speed are visiting Australasia (the COM
monwealth and New Zealand) from Europe, and
considerable expansion of European commerce
must of necessity take place, owing to the new
outlets for trade thereby opened up. The atten.
tion OF congress is respectfully called TO the
fact that for want Of ship subsidy bill shat
will give us an ocean marine we are shut OUT
from this expansion, besides being compelled to
pay these foreign lines 0l.s Of the freights the
goods we do with great difficulty sell there.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-19

american shipyards and on American vessels than
in foreign yards and on foreign ships. Il Is
this greater cost Of the vessels, and, moto partic
ulary the larger cost Of operating them, to say
nothing Of foreign subsidies, that inakes 1t I'M
possible for the owners Of American ships to com
pete with foreign shipowners in our own ocean
carrying trade The senate bill makes UP the
difference by small subsidy. That subsidy will
have TO be voted at each session of congress. the
same Us river and harbor and other appropra
tions. Hence the matter will remain entirely in
the hands Of the people through their rcprcscn.
tstives In congress
The other part OF tile bin provides postal stub
sides for carrying the mails. The bill for that
purpose was passed in 1901, but the payments
provided under that measure as IL originally
passed the senate were reduced in the house OF
representatives just az the end Of the session,
hence the bill has proved failure. Not single
line of American ships has been started as the
result alone OF that measure. The bill that passed
the senate yesterday restores the rates TO what
they were in the bill as it originally passed the
senate in 1891 with provision for competitive
bidding to provide against any possible favortisu.
There Is every assurance that this will result in
the establishment Of new lines to South America,
China, the Philippine Islands and other ports
Of the world where American lines are now
greatly needed. IL will increase our commerce,
keep at home for repayment TO American work.
men vast millions of dollars now sent out of the
country to pay foreign workmen, furnish needed
auxiliary cruisers and result in other benefits,
and the entire cost will hardly be more than
congress votes for q single battleship II is
wise measure and ought to 20 on the statute
books as early as possible.
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Not Un.American.
HOSE who oppose subsidy
encouragement for American
IL ship-building labor under

HOSE who oppose subsidy
encouragement for American
IL ship-building labor under
the disadvantage of not pro-
posing any better plan. They criticize
fluently but construct nothing. Sub
sidy Is not an un-American arrange
ment Every mill or factory located in
a village or city by offer of bonus
represents the subsidy idea 1t is true
that when u city becomes famous as a
manufacturing center ii no longer has
to hold out such inducements to attract
new Industries. But in the infancy Of
industrial growth the subsidy is often
essential and the price asked Is paid
willingly because 1t means bread
thrown on the waters, to return after
many days.
relationship of an infant enterprise
which needs encouragement. The ship
subsidy bill proposes to give this en-
couragement. Some of the details of
the bill may not be just right; the
whole matter is necessarily eXperi-
mental But unless something is done
there will be no growth of this indus
try. The American people want it to
grow, and they are willing to give it
moderate amount of substantial as.
sistance. One thing is certain about
this subsidy business. IF the merchant
marine does not increase it will not
cost much: If it does, we shall be
getting our moneys worth. Let our
Democratic friends remember that.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-19
cRossBoWs USED AGAIN.
From the New York Herald

From the New York Herald.
Many persons in Europe, an especially in Switz.
erland, now practice constantly with crossbows,
hut it is mistake 10 suppose that they Use
the same kind OF weapon as that used by William
Tell. This improved crossbow was invented about
twenty years ago by Colonel Bollinger, a Swiss,
his object being to fashion a weapon which
could be used at night against an enemy's sent.
nels without attracting attention. This Swiss
crossbow is worked by lever. The arrow is ,f
linden wood, and is 165 milmeters IN lcngcth
and about fifteen millimcte,s in diameter. 1t is
tipped with iron, over which is brass ferrule,
and the wooden shaft is OF an ovoid form in front.
Constructed in this way it possesses the double
advantage of opposing to the air the least possible
resistance and Of compelling this resistance to
communicate to the Saft rotatory motion dur
ing fight. The initial speed of the arrow is not
exactly known, but at a distance of seventy feet
it will penetrate wooden target to a depth OF
three centimeters.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-19

# "pol' FRIEND CoIonel
3 Watterson, has been viewing
NJ men and affairs at the nation
al capital and putting the re-
suits on paper. He finds the Repub-
leans AT skies and sevfns, and is con-
WINGED that If the Democrats had
enough sense they would be in fine
position TO make winning sortie.
President Roosevelt he calls Il "bron-
cho- buster"-u clean, honest man of
good impulses and the best of inten-
tions but inconsiGerate, combative and
aggressive; somewhat ON the Grover
Cleveland order, minus Growers cold
ness and stolcal self-reliunce. Colonel
Watterson reports, as do all other OBJ
observers, that among the grandees of
Washington .,siife, the unconventional
way4 Of the il1an.in the White House
the hman FSeiirssshoikeback," TO borrow
the golone esss. phrase-are irritating ana
unpopularsssasHee does things so differ
entlSr YOU Know The colonel is i'm
pressed With the corridor talk In lauda-
ton -of Mark Hanna Unquestionably
Mark has grown in favor of late be-
yond any expectation a few months
ago. What it means we leave to others
to guess Colonel Watterson does not
assume, as do many, that it means that
Mark is going to try to take fall out
of Roosevelt in the next national con-
vention :. but he senses the possibility
Of dramatic developments along that
line and fances there may be music in
the afr,
ThiS thohght, however, suggests it,
self: j, Colonel Roosevelt has the conf
denee of the people, The people do not
feel the rasping OF little nannerisms
whichiaaS not please the grandees, They
do not=aa rule order their politics to
acconlmQdate the ease and comfort OF
the gfandee element. They look upon
the president as a man who is honest
fearless and sincere. They do not con-
slider him above mistakes. but they
have 1t in. their minds that so long as
he is at the head there will be no funny
business in any branch OF the federal
service and no undue intimacy between
the treasury at Washington and Wall
street This belief pervades the great
mass of those who elect national dele
gates and setup or pull down senators.
1t is pager that. when organized,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-19
Free Tuition
AT A
Good School.

Send for a catalogue of the Literary
Institute and State Normal School.
located at Bloomsbury, Pa. This
school maintains several courses Of
study for training teachers, a Prepar-
atory College Course, courses in Voice
and Piano, and a course in Physical
Culture. Send for bulletins of these
special courses.
1t is perhaps the only boarding school
where students enter the dining room
at their leisure, and order their meals
to suit their appetite and digestion as
al a first class hotel
1t has faculty of College and Uni
versty trained specialists, abundant
apparatus of the latest and most APP
proved kind, and every comfort and
convenience for the students.
TUITION has recently been made
FREE for those preparing to teach.
These are some of the additional ad-
vantages: A passenger elevator in
operation all day; A new kitchen with
the latest appliances; Boys beds made
and their rooms swept and otherwise
cared for; A large gymnasium, recog-
nized as one of the best in America;
Athletics Uhe wholesome kind) en-
couraged and facilitated by tennis and
hand-ball courts, running track, ball
field, golf links, groves, etc.; A manual
training department mot a pretense.)
Splenddly equipped laboratories.
IN fact there are many things here
that belong to an up-to-date school,
that people learn about only after they
are here. They all aid in giving that
culture and training which always dis
tinguishes the man or woman educated
at this school. Write, stating what you
want, to
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-19
RHYME-O'-REST.

write the rhyme OF Plenty Time;
| would not celebrate
In vimful verse the Hurry Curse
The Busy Dizzy gait.
sing the song OF Linger Long:
| would not sing, not 1,
The jerky chant OF Push and Pant,
The dirge Of Do or Die.
The spur and knife OF Strenuous Life,
70 them lift no ode;
Through Sing a Song loaf along,
!tnd rest beside the road.
Robert Love, in the Sun
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-19
THE ATMOSPHERE OF BOOKS.

From Success.
If our homes We're furnished with more chirac-
ter.buldng books and less bric.a-b and costly
furniture, our children would get mucl, better
start in life. To bring child lip in an atmos
pherc OF books to surround him with the works
of great minds from his infancy, and lead him
gradually to an appreciation Of the works OF the
intellectual giants of the race, is equal to lib
eral education
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-19

As a consequence Of the Boston strike
ut least 600 men who had employment
ten days ago and left 1t without sense
or reason now have none. Experience
teaches a dear school but its instruction
Is thorough
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-19
SCRANTON, MARCH 19, 1902.

OF so delegates already elected TO the
state convention, 81 are for John T..
Elkin, are for Senator Sproul of
Chester, and are for Colonel Watres.