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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-09-21
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lflch?" II don't know: but Id like to
tEy."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Milton-"Wonder why 1t is that light.
ming strikes twice in the same
spotr' Bilton-'There's nothing there
20 hit the second time"
He could still face ais equals in life.
lis this adds the sting to his shame
he has naught in the name Of his wifsI
Puck.
Naggsby-"What was that racket
out at the Druid Hill Park Zoo this
afternoon" Waggsby-"some NEEDLE.
some person fed the Russian bear .
japanese persimmon." Baltimore
American.
sister-"You have told me her name.
yet I know no more than I did before.
Il she beautiful" Brother-"Beaut!.
ful, why she could make even the
present fashions look artistic. New
York Weekly.
The gas mar once loved q mans daughter;
He came around evenings to daughter;
Keep the gas high" said Duty;
Turn it down." said his Beauty;
30 be lets business slide-and he saghter.
sonny" said the good old man, I'm
surprised that you should tease that
cat ID that way" "Why." replied the
boy, pausing in his inhuman work;
do yer know any better ~way?"-Phil-
adelphia Press.
Ellis wife must be the worst house
KEEPER in the world" "Why so:"
why, her husband stated publicly
that there wasn't a day in the year he
wasn't perfectly comfortable at homer
New Orleans Times-D Democrat.
II saw you crying at the play last
night, It was very Affecting, wasn't
1T" Yes. The Duke Of Portland
eat In the box next to ours and I only
had on $4,000 worth Of my dia-
monds."-Chicago Record-H Herald.
whats the matter, little boy?"
asked old Mr.. Goodart. "What are
iyou crying fort" "Boo. hocr' "Come,
somei Don't mind! Dent mind..'
7sDoo, hoo! ( didn't, an that's what I
MAS licked fur."-Philadelphia Ledger.
Fair Passenger-sT've paid my fare
snce. why do you ask for it again:"
Conductor-"I beg pardon. lady. but
ron look 70 much prettier every time
{ pass through that / thought ron
Wses another passenser."-Chicago
NeWs.
ssSmlth. have you saved anythlng!'
sxes: thousands Of dollars" 'In what
Wayys ''Oh, there's 4 big fortune In
9cotland coming to the Smith family.
an0 I've never spent Z cent trying to
ose Il o. its-Cincinnati Commercial
Waahington had crossed the Dela-
sWixs. '.tt;s Z good thing We didn't
oid1n i bridee.~ he reelected. "for the
ooposttion papers might claim that We
seooaplred With the county commits
o61nGED - hot the public tfeAsury."-
sC3ovG1aDa Ieader.
exoo ne IN favor. are you mol, Of
eonht ara senstble observance Of the
t61tsA q t1lys' said the reporter.
xo poblIe. I an sure. would b giad
MI zen, views on" sYoung
0aass lnteEfupted the othef. do ron
f1ln6k lAotae . proper sQpesfjoa "a AK
snWoouH-CA1canos ItibunA
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81 Win always recommend your wonderful remediee, and hope that'
these few lines may lead others who suffer a. / did to try your
semediea"-MRa I. G. sWmLADszs, r r Mo- l. Manning, Iowa
Such unquegiouahle testimony proves the power Of Lydia e. PtAkp
hams Vegetable Compound overd hesss Of women
Women should remember that they are pr1v1leGe6 70 con0u0
Ma Ptnkham 1t Lynn Mass, about their nlneGA entirely heeA
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Miss Hapgood tells how she was cured
Of Fallopian and Ovarian Inflammation
and escaped an awful operation by using
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

"DEAR Mna PlN4nAM:-.I suffered Tor tour years with what the
doctors called Salpingiis inflammation of the falopan tubes) and ova-
rtis, which are most distressing and painful ailments, affecting all the
sus1ounding parts undermining the constitution, and s,pping The LIE
Pinkhamrs Vegetable Compound. and had noticed the sanken eyes,
sauow complexion. and general emaciated condition. and compared that
person with me g I am today, robust. hearty and well You would not
wonder that / feel thankful to you and your wonderful medicine,
which restored me to new life and health in I've month"; and saved mo
from an awful operation Miss IRENE HAPcooD. 1ea2 Sandwich st,
Windsor, Ont.
ovarits O Inflammation Of The ovaziss OF ialepia. tubes whichsaioin tAe
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etnco. / used fourteen bottles Of
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and Blood Purifier
together, and am now restored %
perfect health. Had Il not been for
You. I would have been IN my grave.
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/ suffered much pain. Iwould daily have
fainting spells, headache, backacke and
bearing down pain, and was % weak that
IL was hard for mo to do my work.
II used your medicine and treatment
~ directed, and after taking three bottleD
Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, menaes appeared, my womb tron-
bles left me, and l have been regular ever
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The Washington times., 1904-04-24
FOREIGN BOURSES
TAKE ON EASIER TONE

LONDON, April 2S.-Business on the
stock exchange is suffering from week
end slackness and the nearness of the
settlement ConsOls were fairly steady
though a fraction lower, owing to ex-
changing into the new Indian loan.
American shares opened irregular, re-
covered somewhat. became inanimate
and closed quiet but steady.
Despite the war there are signs of re-
turning good times throughout the con-
tinent of Europe. Low tide was marked
by the panic on the Paris bourse a fort
night after the first attack on Port
Arthur. when IL looked as If hostilitles
could not be localized TO Korea and
Manchuria. The danger was exceedingly
real and had not the dipiomatists de-
voted time to making peace instead of
stirring up the trouble IL could not have
been averted. But Lord LansdoWne
smothered France with kindness in the
shape Of Morocco and 5000 square miles
on the Gambia, and now all is lovely.
The tone of the Continental bourses has
steadily improved. hope Teigns on the
London stock exchanges, and the year
which opened in dread promises to end
In prosperity.
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ANCIENT DRINKING VESSELS.

At Christie's. London, seventeenth
century leathern blackjack ws-s sold for
$50. It was mounted with a silver
shield engraved with a coat-of-arms,
with the rim inscribed: ''Oliver Crom-
well. 1858, Lord Protector" Blackjacks
are among the oldest drinking vessels
known, and are celebrated in one of the
Roxburghe ballads:
a. l wish in heaven his sol may
dwell.
Who first devized the leathern bottle.
Then when this bottle doth grow
old.
And will no longer good liquor hold,
Out OF its side you may take a clout,
VIII mend your shoes when they are
worn out"
In the list of drinking cups, 1885. are
'-blacktacks and bombards at the court
which, when the Frenchmen first saw
they reported on their return TO their
countFey that the Englishmen used to
drinke out OF their bootes." There are
to>be met with, bearing a medallion por-
trait OF Oliver Cromwell, with shield
engraved with his arms.
on the same day at Sotheby's, DURING
a sale of Shakespeare's relics. was sold
a silver seal top spoon of the period Of
James l. on the bowl of which was en-
graved a full-length figure of the great
poet and dramatist. Beneath the figure
was the date of his death, 1916, and on
of Anne Hathaway. no doubt a memo-
rial spoon. made either for a relative or
for one of his friends. This curious
relic, though scrutinized narrowly by
SIX optics, brought a good price.-Jewel-
ers Circular Weekly.
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PRICE CHANGES
MERELY NOMINAL
Good Bank Statement With
out Special Effect.
STEEL HOLDING ITS OWN
Slight Concessions in Final Dealings,
But Closing Fairly Firm-Bond
Market Strong.
STEEL HOLDING ITS OWN

NEW YORK. April 23.-The stock
market was of a holiday character, with
business almost as light as on the dull
days of midsummer. The trading was
confened TO the room element, and re-
suited in only nominal changes in prices
as a rule. The general tone was fair
" firm, and final quotations favorable.
particularly in the small increase in
loans, coupled with the handsome gain
in cash. Consolidated Gas, on the sign
ing of the Remsen gas bill, opened up
a point. but subsequently declined over
a point on realizations.
Steel preferred was under less pres
sure than yesterday. Copper was ne
elected. and Neutrality-suspicious. advanced
a point on progress made in financing
issues Of preferred stock, which is de-
signed 10 relieve the company from the
burden of last years expensive loan.
The feature of the local group was an
advance OF a point in Brooklyn Rapid
Transit, and Metropolitan Street Rail-
way also was strong. There were some
slight concessions in final dealings, but
the market closed fairly firm.
Bonds were firm.
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FREE LIBRARIES IN SIBERIA.

All the chief Siberian towns have free
public libraries, but naturally all are on
a small scale. 1t surprises one. even.
on going into the national library at St
Petersburg. the capital city, TO find so
comparatively restricted I'm its limits a
public reading salon for the biggest
city Of northern Europe. 1t Is not much
bigger than one of the side-rooms in
3oston's beautiful bibliOteka. Perhaps
the chief Siberian library is that AT
lrl1utsk, ir the heart of Siberia IT Is
a substantial brick edifice, and is located
on the second floor of the museum. so
that the library building serves a
double purpose. 1t has some 5000
volumes. very many of which are in
the different languages of Europe. and
have come into the library from diff
ferent sources; a few from govern
ment sources, but mainly resulting from
the clearing-up of dead exiles' effects.
when the books they had brought with
them were turned over TO the biblio-
tclOa. This nucleus has made the
library fairly select one, and all
brainy standard authors viii be found
represented there, both Russian and
fsreign But the real literary and edu-
cation town OF Siberia is Tomsk about
midway between Irkutsk and the Ural
range. Here there are three universe
ties and IL is the book and publishing
depot OF Siberia. The Public Library
at Tomsk is a tree-log and brick-faced
double Widowed cold-proof building
located near the governors house and
the theater. X is more Russian in its
contents than the Irkutsk library. The
volumage IS about 1000. The chief
russian periodicals. are received. so
that the institution Is both a library
and n current-literature reading room.
Boston Transcript.
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HISTORY OF The COACH.

AS popular as coaching Is in some
parts of the country. but little reliable
information has ever appeared in the
public press respecting its history and
development At the town OF Kotze, in
Hungary, in 1857. the first coach was
constructed This was soon afterward
presented 10 Charles VII at Paris. The
first authentic record OF a stagecoach
in England shows that six of such We
hicles were In use there in l662. SO
popular did they become in that country
that a few days later they were In gen
eral use on all the principal roads OF
the kingdom.
Steam railways have to a large extent
done away with the use of the coach
as link in the commercial chain. but
as a means of furnishing the highest
type of recreation the coach and four
is as popular today in the British Sm-
pire and I'm France as IL was when this
motion in those countries.
StagecOaching I'm America was al
most co-eXtenSive with the settlement
of the colonies, and In the early his
tory OF the country there were few, If
any, places of any Importance that did
not welcome the sound OF the COACH
mans horn as one of the fascinating
incidents of pioneer life. AS civilization
pushed itself westward the stagecoach
was ever in the lead OF those agencies
which blazed its pathway. These We
hlcleS, as well as their equipment, were
,e---y-eI -~tivslY crude in their construc-
tor and unpretentious In their appoint
ments, but they admirably served the
purpose for which they were intended
and laid the foundation for the popu-
larity of coaching as n pleasurable pas
time developed in later years
Coaching parties had been popular IN
England and France for several genera
lions before they were introduced In
this country. yGJ The sport is so whole
some and enjoyable that II cannot be
doubted that in time II will become as
popu.ar here as il Is across the Atlantic.
Illustrated Sporting News
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MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

NEW YORK, April 23-Money on call
nominally 1Q1A per cent.
Time money, during the week, was
offered with liberality The demand was
moderate. which was largely due to the
light business of stock commission
houses. as well as TO the temptation
offered by the extremely low prices for
calf money Collateral of the ordi-
nary mixed character was readily ac-
cepted. Rates. ~ per cent for sixty
to ninety days. 1854 per cent for four
months, 31z6l4 per cent for longer dates
Mercantile paper this week. in so far
as the demand was concerned, would
have been characterized by fair trade
but the supply of desirable paper was by
no means heavy, as the needs of mer-
chants at this time did not warrant
their coming into the market except to
a limited extent
A number Of the local institutions
are now willing to buy paper, and, In
addition TO this. there was a fair de-
mand from other centers. Rates quoted
were 4 per cent for Endorsed bills re-
ceivable, 4a41z per cent for high-grade
single names, per cent and above
for those not so well known.
Domestic exchange-Chicego exchange
on New York city today 20 cents pre-
MUM bid, against 20 premium yester-
day, and 80 cents premium year ago
this date. Boston exchange 2ix TO )
cents Discount. against 10 10 discount
yesterday.
Foreign xchange-Sterling exchange
today recovered, closing 10 points
higher, at 1878. Rates for actual bust
ness were as follows: Sixty days,
1855; demand. 4S7ss; cables, 4S7S
Commercial bills were 4S41b6i4 g5Ik The
supply Of grain and cotton bills was
scarce. Continental bills were quoted
as follows: Francs, 5.1S1s and 515ss, less
1-16; reichsmarks. "a l5-16a94 SIG and
d403s.
Silver-Bar silver in London steady
and q higher at 251z pence per ounce.
Today's New York price for CONNER
cial bars l cent higher, at 55zsn565s
cents. Government assay bars a higher,
at 55is0571s. Mexican dollars I'M
changed, at 43lzdz615.
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CHICAGO GRAIN
AND PROVISIONS

CHICAGO. April 23.-Weather was too
fine for any disgruntled bull to pick a
flaw. All the damage done by previous
frost, wind. hail, and drought was un-
needed II not forgotten. and the promise
of a good crop was made much brighter
by the sunshine. That was the in
huence that. more than anything else.
caused the following declines in grain
May and July wheat. each. 11kc; new
September, &c
Corn Z for May, Is for July
Oats &c down for May and July, and
y lower for September.
Provisions at the close were cents
higher each for lard and ribs.
Prices for futures follow:
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COTTON MARKET
DEVOID OF INTEREST

NEW YORK. April Z3.-The cotton
market was quiet today and devoid OF
any particularly new features not fully
covered in the weekly review. The
situation continues so mixed that trad
ers are not doing anything beyond en-
ceayoring TO scalp out moderate profits
from the daily narrow fluctuations.
Sentiment was influenced by the gener-
ally fair and warmer weather in the
cotton belt and the easier tone OF the
Liverpool markets this morning, and as
a Consequence selling again predomi-
mated. The decline, however. was con-
fined within a range of about ten points.
The days prices were as follows:
April, 1365013.67; May. l3.G6Ql367: July,
lssSa1s.9O; August. ls.Aal343; October,
I15fdII55.
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CONFIRMS LAND TITLE.

The Senate yesterday passed House
oil 1892. favorably reported from the
Senate District Committee. 10 confirm
the title 10 lots g. 4. and ). in square go.
10 Thomas II G. Todd. The property is
located IN Southeast Washington, near
the navy yard
The Washington times., 1904-04-24
WASHINGTON STOCK MARKET

les-Washington Street Railway as.
l .O00a7siz. 1.OOOG7 sss. 10000 761z, 1,Oo0G76sz.
I.OO0Ss761z 1.0O0d761a.
25057ss
Mergenthaler, 5a175la. 10d175k.
Graphophone common. 40n5is, 40d5A.
After call-Washington Gas. 1Sq57i2,
2d57iS. 2057lz.
Graphophone common. 5Q55z.
The Washington times., 1904-04-24
U. S. TREASURY FINANCES.

The United States Treasury statement
issued Friday, covering actual results OF
two days before. compares In its net
balances as follows with the same date
one and two years ago. The statement
subjoined. for all three years, excludes
the $3.50, 0,000 reserved against Govern
ment notes.
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NEW YORK GRAIN MARKET.

Closing prices year ago yesterday
were: New York-July wheat. II liz
July wheat. 72i9 cents; July corn, 4516
cents.
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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Reported by W. B. Hibbs & Co., l4l9
Street. Members New York Sock Exchange,
Chicago Board of Trade. and Washington Stock
Exchanged
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Stock Market Business Light
4ud U/zih0ut Least Interest
PRICE CHANGES OF WEEK.

NEW YORK. April 25.-Following are
the highest, lowest. and closing prices
and the number OF shares sold. of the
most active stocks during the week:
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: announcement
Herman {. GaSch Harry G. BiTge
Gasch & Birge, Resident Managers
German Am erican
insurance Company
OF NEW YORK
Branch Offices;
708 18th Street m. w.
Capital; 81, 500, 900.
Assets sI2.O74,OOO

THE RIGGS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
has reinSured all its outstanding policies in the Ger
man American Insurance Company of New York,
and in future the latter Company will be responsible
for all losses that may occur under same. The Ger
nan American has established branch office in
charge of Mr.. Harry c. Birge late Secretary of the
Riggs and Mr.. Herman E. Casch, of Gasch
Brothers, under the firm name of Gasch s. Birge, at
former office of Riggs Fire Ins. Co., Nc. 7o8 Four
tenth ST. NV Here all losses will be promptly ad-
justed and paid without discount.
By this means the German American Insurance
Company will give its Washington patrons all the
advantages of a Local Company in addition to the
undoubted security which its financial position guar
antees.
paaI Esfafe f1ffInos Al 1905 A AVA NJ W
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-Inciuding under assets fractional and minor
coin, bonds, and interest paid etc. and under
liabilities national bank fund, discussing on
GERS balances etc.
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DR.. Leathernan.

Only Expert specialist in the city on all lorna
Of private diseases Of men and women Conta-
gioiss blood and skin diseases cured forever
Nervous debility, structure, etc, quickly cured
Advice free. Hours, to u and to 5; also %
Tues Thurs and Sat. evenings to 5. CLOSED
Sunday SOC st. NV. ia2l-u
The Washington times., 1904-04-24
NEW YORK CURB MARKET.
Yesterdays

NEW YORK. April 23.-The following
were the closing quotations on the curb
TODAY:
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IMPORT TRADE FOR THE WEEK.

NEW YORK. April 23.-Imports of Dry
goods and general merchandise at New
York this week. reported in full at III.
custom house today, were s447, 579 below
last week, and S2.Col, 274 below this week
last year. They were the lowest i'm
ports OF any week in two months, and
compare as follows:
This week Last week. Last year
Dry goods. .27e,sI2 81, $50. 500 g. 457 991
Gen. mdse....... 1854 PAS 9,320.643 1896 943
Total .......IO, s3S. 600 ll,2sl, 2s0 r. sS4, 93I
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DIVIDEND

PAYING MINING, OIL, TIMBER, SHELTER,
AND INDUSTRIAL STOCKS making possible
LARGE INTEREST and PROFITS, listed and
unlisted our speciality. Booklets giving full
mailed free on application.
-. DOUGLAS LACEY & co,
Bankers and Brokers, 60 Broadway, New York.
Or A. II. FOSTER, Manager, l41s St NV,
Washington, d. c. apl0.24
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The aggregate amount expended on
account Of these four parks from the
dates OF the original appropriation acts
10 the present time have been as fol-
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DOCTORS FREE

LADiEs-our Monthly Regulator Never FsilL
Box FREE VITA CO. station A. Detroit
Mich. mhz-26s.weSsa
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priated $4,000 for preserving the lines
of battle Of the Army Of the Potomac
and the Army of Northern Virginia,
showing the position of each of the
forty-three different commands of the
regular army I'm the battle OF Ante
tam, and for the purchase of sites for
tablets for marking those positions.
Further sums were appropriated for this
object from time to time, until the work
OF clearly defining the battle line with
tablets and markers had been practically
completed at a cost of 81, 73I. Congress
by the act of July z, 1898. appropriated
5000 for the preservation Of AItietam
battlefield, and small appropriations
having this object in view nave been
passed annually, these funds being dis
bursed by direction Of the Quartermas-
ter General and including the salary Of
a superintendent of the battlefield, who
receives 81 500 annually. All the ex
penditures that have been made by the
War Department under the several ap-
propriatiOns provided for the Antietam
battlefield have been as follows:
Relief of the cemetery trus-
tees ......................... So. sos o.
Road to the cemetery .......... 100000
Battle lines and sites for tab
Preserving the battlefield ...... $4,000
Total ............................. 120, 2s7. O4
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Cost of the Parks.

The approximate amount spent on the
Improvement of each Of these parks
from the time Of its establishment TO
date, including road and bridge work.
salaries labor. machinery. surveys.
cannon balls, gun carriages. etc. has
been.
Chickmauga -....-.---.-..--.--..--S 1896, 81 81
Shiloh ....................... 255. 07S-4S
Gettysburg .............,.......... SIS, 22S OF
Nicksburg ...........-..-......+.. S9.5S9.29
Total .....-....... /. 62S. 907 21
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W. 7. BALDUS. M. D.. Phi. O.,

German Specialist
ON Mental. Nervous, Kidney. and all Prissts
Diseases. Chronic and Acute Doctors seryics
and medicine not over 81 Consr1tation free
Tel Z. BIN. S. E Cor. 9th ana F sta. nv.
Hours. 10 to 1. TO g. apls-sG
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New National Parks.

Bills are now pending in Congress
providing for the establishment of ma
tional parks on battlehelds az follows:
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Total .........lO,sa 600 n,2sl,2s0 l2,ssI,s3I
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GOVERNMENT BONDS.
RAILROAD BONDS.

Wash Gas Co, ser. A, 6's IoO2-2I lO6 80.
Wash. Gas Co. ser. B, SIS 1904-27- l0J
L. 6. Elec. Light. Deb. Imp. 1902. lJi -.
Z. S. Elec. Light, Cert. Indebt.. IO5 -.--
Cles. & Pot. Tel. Co. 5s......... i0jI lWa
Wash Market Co.. Jst 6's, 1892. l0J 80.
Masonic Hall ASS DIS, O-..--.. 10J
Wnshington Cas...-....'....., us lJs5