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LOniSIARX Agent
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LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY
Capital rrlze 300000
Whole Tickets 120001 Quarters TicletstiOO
Halves laoo I Tenths 2W
3 TuenticUis tl00
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TUESDAY Feb 11 1800
Ill Market St
6ALVEST0N TEXAS
M BOWER
61 and G3 Austin St
JEFFERSON TEXAS
Dealer in
MATBBSSBS
III METALIC CASKETS
± lJ = ± lil FAVORITE
WHITE SEWING MACHINE ATTACHMENTS
AND NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE
IWPapr f inflow Shades CMlens Carriages Ming Glasses
Chromos Picture Frames
Rosewood Gilt Mouldings
Sell on installments as I have always done and allow none to un-
dersell me Stock always full largo and completo and satisfaction
guaranteed
Wholesale and Retail
Hotels BoardingHouses Families and Eailrond Men Funiishcd at tbe
3L OWEST MARKET PRICE
Everything Dolivered Prcmptly Within the city Limits
Our Heat is bundled by 11 aje g v rn
and attentive talesmen Tour children will he treated tlie fame as our elf
W S DUKE SB
Corner of Polk Austin St Jefferson Tex
The Old Standby and Peoples Favorite
LOUIS L0NGIH0TEE Props
Its the Place To Go For
I Pure Whisky Wines I Liquors
FRESH BEER ALWAYS ON TAP
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DEALERS DT
TAPLEI FANCY IRY GOODS
Dress Goods Trimmings
IMS al GENTS FttilllG GOODS
Ladees J M
A FULL LUSTS OF
Oemtjs Shgi
Joffcrson Toxns
Only the Finest Brands of Liquors and Cigars
1IemeHed
JEFFERSON CMICE DM
T W SHACKELFORD PROPRIETOR
CITIZENS OF JEFFERSON EVERY MORNING WITH
Fr esl Mi Bitter YuMes ant Meats
The best the country affords at reasonable prices
Orders left with O B Parle will always meetwith
prompt attention
WS HAYWOOD
IAYWQ0D WA
Heal Estate k CoMi Apiits
OFFICE Board of Trade Rooms corner Polk St and Batesman Alley
Jefferson Texas
S M WABD
t Buy and sell property on commission Kent houses collect rents
negotiate loans take acknowledgements furnish abstracts render prop
erty aid pay taxes
PROFESSIONAL GAEDS
VT K CAMP
J M VISES jr
Camf Vines
Attorneys at Law
JEFFEKSOX TEXAS
Will practice in all the State and
Federal Courts
n JIcKAY D C HOUINSON
MCKAY ROBINSON
Attorneys at Law
Jofforson Texas
WPractice In all State and Federal
Courts
W T ARMlSTAD B B LOCKETT
J A ARUISTJUD
Ariuistead Lockett Armisiead
LaTTPTers
JSPFE2SC1T S2SAS
3 Practice in State and Federal
Courts
8 R TAYLQB
ATTORNEY at LAW
Jctreifton Texnu
Will practice in both State and Fed-
eral Cuuitn of Texas
Special attention given to collections
Office corner of Polk and Austin sts
DR R HORNSBY GIBBONS
DENTIST
Is now located in the Hawley Eeal
Estate Exehango Building up stairs
corjer o Austin and Polk streets and
solicits the patronage of the public
W G JONES
FolJg Stroot
Jefferson
3 Ujh
OFFICE In Natl Hotel Building
Jefferson Texas
Citation By Publication
TIIE STATE OF TEXAS
To the Sheriff or any Constable of Marlon
county Greeting
are hereby commanded to summon W
YOU Edwards by making pullicrtion of this
citation once in each week for four successive
u eekh previous to return day hereof in some
newspaper published in your comity if there
be a newspaper published therUii but If not
then in any newspaper published in the 5th
judicial district but if there be no newspaper
published in said judicial district then in a
newspaper published in tbe nearest district to
said Mh judicial district to appear at the next
regular term of the Justice Court of Precinct No
Viwum thereof hi Jefferson on the 4th Monday
In January A I 1800 the same beiuj the 27th
day of January A I > 1890 then and there to
answer a petition filed In said Court on tho lGth
day of Dec A D 1889 in a suit numbered on
the docket of said Court No 191 wherein Sam-
uel Thurmau ia plaintiff and W G Edwards
is defendant The nature of plaintiffs demand
bciuj a suit upon a mortgage note dated Feb
ruar > 218S7 and paj able on or before October
118S7 to the order of Samuel Thunnan for
Forty Dollars for alue received with 12 per-
cent Interest from date until paid and all costs
necessary for collection Including attorney a
fees Herein fall not but have before said Court
at its aforesaid next regular term this writ
with jour return thereon showing how you
have executed the same
Given under my hand and official signature
at office in Jenerbon this thelyth day of De-
cember A D lbsy
WKJ GRAHAM J P
Precinct No 2 Marion County Texas
dec25 iw
Citation By Publication
THE STATE OF TEXAS
To the Sheriff or any Constable of Marlon
Count cheetikc
You are hereby commanded to summon D
11 Zacherj Jr the defendant lu this ULU > e
by muling publication of this titatlon in some
newspaper published in jour county once in
each ttek lor four uccctsie week next pre-
vious to the return da > thereof to be and ap-
pear before me at my office in Jefferson on the
27th day of January 1S0 at 10 oLlocko m to
answer the complaint of Geo A Gmyvn Ihll
Zacherj In a plea of debt for the sum of 11465
principal duebj V 11 Zacherj br and D II
Zacherj J for labor furnished to make crop
on the Cotton Point Land Llalmcd by Ttrrj for
ISSs Wdaysat SL00 per daj Including tools
teams etc SI to 50
10 bushels torn atC5 cents 1040
15390
By 88 bushels corn at Ci els per bushel 14 24
Balance due SKI C5
Hen In fail not but of this w rit and ho v ou
hae executed the same make due return as
the law directs
Gh en under my hand this the 10th Day of
December 189
W F J GRUIAM J P
Justice of the Peace in and for said county
Texas
This old and jionular Restaurant is
still in the ling and better than ever
prepared to furnish Heals at All Uourn
Day ami Night Also Good Beilt for
TrannUnt Persona
Begular Boarders per t eek 400
Meals 25cts
Beds 2jots
Fare as good as the best and patron-
age respectfully solicited
C C BICKFORD
Stogies Slsles
I am prepared to furnish any and all
kinds of
Shingles Wanted
lower than anybody Will sell a lair
article for shedding ete
For 50 cts Per Thousand
Address me with orders at Jefferson
or Woodlawn
F L MUHDY
Juno 18 tf
WE treat and riRXAWEinxT
cuke or no pat all Chrom-
ic Diseases Dkiokihtieb
and Bukoicas Cases Sex-
ual Diseases of Mzar Wo
iiBK and Ciiildbex the re
suits of Imperfect Dntlopment
EvxlHainUOTExcetut Opium
and tba Whtikev JlabO A
large and magnificent Sahitaiudx and
Private LyinoIn Hosfitax in connec-
tion Hook of Lite with particulars tor
Home Cure Khez De Parkers Med-
ical < E 8UKOICAX IHSTITUTS 1SIJJ JVottA
Spruce rcce KASuyilT Tssnc
Subscribe tor tbe luraxoirrB
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OFFICE OP PrELlCATIOX Corner
Poll anil Dallas Streets Jefferson Texas
Issneil eTery WcdueHdny by the
JEFFERSON PUBLISHING CO
WAKD TAYLOK Sr Editor
CHURCH DIRECTORY
KAPT1ST CllUUCn
Services every Sunday 11 a m and 7 r n
ft C Kbilkt Pastor
Sunday School eyery Sunday 93U a m
J II Uowill Supt
frajcr Meeting every Wednesday 7 P u
CUMUEELASD rSESSYTEBlANClICKCII
Services eiery Sunday 11 A it and 7 P at
W B Pbfjton lastor
Sunday School every Sunday J 45 a 3
J If Bemis Supt
Prayer Meeting every Wednesday 7 r M
METHOD1BT CllVRCir
Ser ices every Sunday 11 A jr anil 7 r u
tji D r Thomas Pastor
Smnla School ertry Suuda iJOa M
1 S SCIILlTFK bupt
Praj e Meeting cveTj Trmrsda > 7 r m
WriHESUAVClSinuary 151890
Oar incomes like our shoes if
too small will gall and pinch ns
but il too large will cause ns to
trip
During 1889 Sing Sing New
York State Prison cost 161784
and earnod S30000 Idle convicts
under State law
A now French invention is a
bomb intended to bo fired into the
ranks of the enomy who uses
smokeless powder and obscure his
view
Tho Kentucky University this
year opened its doors to female
students and now tho names of
twenty young women arc ontered
upon its rolls
Virginia finds it necessary to
raiso an increased revenue of at
least S300000 and the only feasi
blo way to do it is to adopt highli
cense legislation
Tho Brazilian newspapers all
unite in sajing that tho Eepublic
has como to stay and that it would
bo madness for any set of men to
attempt its overthrow
The Jefferson Davis Monument
Association will ask tho Mississippi
Legislature to appropriate 8100
000 to fulfill thoTuirnose wliieh ani
mates tho organization
The art of putting tho right men
in the right and proper place
is first in tho scienco of govern-
ment but that of finding places for
tho discontented is the most diffi-
cult
Tho grangor cloment is in tho as-
cendancy in tho South Carolina
Legislature and is insisting on lib
oral treatment of the agricultural
colleges and demanding reforms
in Stuto finances
The Now York Mail and Express
takes tho Boston fire as proof posi-
tive that there can be no such thing
with us Americans as a fireproof
building or a business section im-
pervious to conflagration
An old gentlemen was induced
to go from Iowa to Pennsylvania
by a spiritual medium to moot and
converse with his dead wife The
modium fleeced him out of 83000
He was a Christian scientist
The rise of the prico of ivory
may be described by tho statement
that the great cutlery firm in Shef-
field Eodgors Sons used to pay
600 a ton but thoy havo lately
paid 1280 and in sorao special
cases as high as 2000
Tho trial of a colored deacon
who was arrested at Wichita Kan
for stealing coal was advanced on
tho Justices docket at his request
in order that be might fill an en-
gagement to preach on the day ori-
ginally set for hearing
Although the buffalo has become
almost extinct in tho TJ S vast
herds of this distinctively Ameri-
can big gamo roam over tbo
boundless plains of Northern Au-
stralia Those animals are the de-
scendants of some buffaloes landed
at PostEssington in 1829
A religious journal states that
on tho west coast of Africa there
are now about two hundred church-
es 35000 converts 100000 adhe-
rents 2750 schools 30000 pupils
and portions of Scripture and ro
ligious books havo been translated
into thirtyfive languages or dia-
lects
The season has been so mild in
England that quantitios of violets
wero at the end of last month grow-
ing in open air near Siftingbourne
Cherry trees were budding in the
same locality while at Bredger
another village in the vicinity of
Siftingbourne a field of poppies
was in foil bloom
CJZ
How is Your Health
A writer in a healthful magazine
called Laws of Life contends that
it is a cruelty to ask on entering
tho sickroom How aro you to-
day 1 and How you do and tho
like Tho Irishmansgeoting Tho
top of tho morning to yon is re
cbmmonded as a more inspiriting
and sensible salutation It has a
bad effect nponthe patient to make
liim talk about his condition and
ittfought not to be done After
such a conversation his visitor
leaves him feeling utterly wretch
eci whereas if the talk had been
confined to cheerful themes some
good offect might have been pro-
duced Better use the eastern
phrase Peaco be with you than
a Mget of jirords that Jurn the
4i in3seyeThward npovi lhe body
Health liko the weather is a uni
vorsal in tor est and is a sort of
topic upon which conversation may
bo begun without much selfcom
mittal but botweon friends a bet-
ter phrase than How dye do t
ought to be omployod Ones phy-
sical health though important is
not often all onos greatest at every
moment of life During tho great-
est part of a lifetimo in many cases
a mans health is so perfect that
an inquiry about it strikes him as
meaningless It is best to let up-
on the weather and your friends
health conversation When a man
forgets that ho is sick ho is well
If ho is dangerously ill his disease
will not let him forget it In any
case a reminder from an outsider
is not needed Give tho world a
vhanco to bo huppy Smile with
it and wish everybody a merry
now year
The Navy of the Future
A distinguished naval officorsays
It is my opinion that tho war-
ship of tho future will bo a vessel
that will sink out of sight when-
ever she wants to and bob up
sorenely when tho danger is over
It is quite impossible to put enough
armor plating on a vessel to koop
out shot and shell A ship cant
carry it all and float Wevo got
to give up tho idea of trying to
make a ship invulnerable or any
thing approaching it for invulnera-
bility we shall have to substitute
invisibility When tho ship of tho
future discharges her guns she will
immediately tako a header and
seek a new position Scionce is
bound to master the problom some
day Already vessels havo been
aSimnlL soalnilai
esignod on can
keep under water for an hour or
moro at a stretch without any dis-
comfort to the crew This dis-
tinguished naval officor might have
frankly confessed that he owed this
bright idea to Frank Stockton
Dont Kill Too Soon
It is a great mistake often a fatal
one to kill a dog that has bitten a
person until it is established that
the dog is mad Imagination
causes more deaths by hydropho-
bia than neglect docs Once the
dog is dead thero is no chance of
proving it had not rabies the pa-
tient is predisposed to think it did
His fears get hold of his nerves
and work on them until they in
duco tho dread disease visions of
which aro being constantly con
jured up to tho minds oye A dog
after inflicting a wound should be
caged and watched and it wero
evon well if sonio dissimulation
wero practiced to make tho patient
believe the dog was all right oven
should it develop symptoms If
pooplo only know how powerful
cauterization is a remedial agent
few w tld die of rabies Physi-
cian in > t Louis GlobeDemocrat
A Cure For Diphtheria
The following remedy is said to
bo the best known at leastis worth
trying for physicians seem power-
less to copo with the disease suc-
cessfully At tho first indication
of diphtheria in tho throat of a
child mako the room close then
tako a tin cup and pour into it a
quantity of tar and turpentine
equal parts Then hold tho cup
over a firo so as to fill tho room
with fumes Tho liltlo patient on
inhaling tho fumes will cough up
and spit all the membranous mat
tor and tho diptheria will pass off
Tho fumes of tho tar and turpen-
tine loosen the matter in tho throat
and thus afford tbe rolief that has
baffled tho skill of physicians
Scientific American
The Art of Sharpening a Knife
Do you know how to sharpen a
carving knifo The question was
asked by a big butcher in Fulton
market Very few people do
said ho Tho carver ought to be-
hold at an angle of 20 to 25 degs
on tbo steel Whon the other side
of the blado is turned you must bo
careful to preserve the same angle
Then draw the steel from heel to
point against the edge using only
a slight pressure New York
Herald
An intelligent newspaper man
has summed tho wholo matter up
this wise
Onethird of tho fools in tho
country think thoy can boat a law-
yer in expounding tho law One
half think they can beat tbo doc-
tor in healing tho sick Two
thirds of them think they can put
the minister in a holo in preaching
the gospel and all of them think
they can beat the editor in running
a newspaper
A VAST CEMETERY
HVv y jj j
Calculations on the Extent or tho Eartn
Which Bun Into Bis Figurau
Here is a man who has taken the
trouble to calculate how much land it
would take to bury the population of
the world for 6000 years or 100000
years He finds that the former could
be buried in half of Texas and the lat-
ter in the territory east of tho Missis-
sippi river
In 6000 years you have sixty cen-
turies In each century you may
count three generations of mankind
or 180 generations in all each being a
generation of 1500000000 Now
out a cemetery for one generation
will be a huge estimate to give to
every man woman and child a grave
five feet by two or ten square feet A
square mile contains something les3
than 28000000 square feet You
want then a graveyard not 55 miles
Jonjj by 10wido for your whole gen
eration Now multiply thSbylfWundj
you havo jour burying ground fori
6000 years of mankind That is a
strip of land 1800 miles long by 55
miles wide will be ample In other
words a cemetery containing 100000
square miles would be sufficient foH
the entire human race to lie bide by
side Tho estimate which I havo givcp
you of the continuous population is
obviously enormously large The es-
timate of tbe size of each grave is very
large A strictly correct estimate
would reduce the size of thertquiied
cemetery more than onehalf But
enormous as it is j ou could lay out j
vour burial ground for all men who
have lived on earth so that the could
lie side by side in Ai izomi or in Cali-
fornia or you could lay it out in Tex j
as largu enough to accommodate tbe
race of 0000 j ears past and also tbe
race for CC0O yean yet to come all
sleeping iu tbe soil of that one state of
this union j
But some one says the race of man j
has been ou earth 100000 years That
is a pure imagination and there is not
so far as I know a fact oil which to
rest it But suppose it is true and the
population alwajs what it now is
You have provided for 6000 years of
it You want nearly seventeen times
as largo a cemetery for the fenerations
of a thousand centuries That is j ou
want 1700000 squares miles in it Lay
it out whenever you please 1700 miles
long by 1700 miles wide It is but a-
part of the United States And so
enormously largo bavebeen the rough
estimates thus far used it is safe to say
that if the human race has been in ex-
istence 100000 years a separate grave
could bo provided for every individ-
ual of the race within a part of the
United States east of the Mississippi
river
Estimating that a large man can
stand on two square feet and the av-
erage standing room of a crowd of
men women and children is one and
a half square feet ho calculates that
18000000 people can stand on a square
mile According to this tho popula-
tion of the world could stand on 81
square miles
Then lie makes this curious sugges
lion
Carry your arithmetic still further
You laid out a cemetery for the 1500
000000 of mankind now living
Build a city for them to dwell in Av-
erage families at five persons to a fam
ily and give each family a house aud
lot 20 feet by 100 Your cemetery gave
five persons fifty square feet forgraves
Their city lot is forty times as large
Your city lot must therefore bo forty
times as large as yourcemetery Add
20 per cent for good street3
On this basis the population of the
world could live in a city 100 miles
wide and 220 miles long and have
twice the space per capita now being
occupied by the majority of people in
our great cities Dr Prince in Jour-
nal of Commerce
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Uluotl Oranges
The blood orange is a mere variety
of tho s ctt orange obtained by cul-
tivation and appears first to have been
raised by tho Spanish gardeners in the
Philippine Islands front the capital of
which Manila it together with the
well known cigars formed at one-
time one of the chitf articles of oxjMJit
On its first appearance in Europe it ex-
cited a considerable sensation aud iu
the last century very high prices were
demanded for the tree which boro the
wonderful fruit None however
now come to us from Manila our
supply being derived almost en-
tirely from Malta v > heic great
pains aud attention are bestowed
upon their cultivation It was for
a long time supposed and indeed
the idea is not yet quite eitinet that
blood oranges w ere produced by the
grafting of tho orange with the pome-
granate but there is not the slightest
tottndation for this belief Chambers
Journal
Wild Iloma of tho Slernu
There is said to be a large baud of
wild horses led bv a thoroughbred
known to tho stockmen as the Out-
law Stud ranging between Truckee
Nevada county and Peavine Nev
Years ago the stu 1 a fine racer es-
caped to the moun uns and has since
defied capture By desperate ridiuc
stockmen manage to get into the band
and drive out the oolts The horses
range on the highest peaks bevond
where cattle or she > often go Thoy
only go to water or e a day and then
in single file down ho mountain trail
as fast as they can run They go back
at their leisure feeding by the way
Grass Valley Tidings
A Stona Man In a Cavern
In blasting at the Minnie mine ou
Aspen mountain a beautiful cave was
discovered The walls were covered
with crystalized lime and lead and
stalactites projected from the ceiling
A party was startled to find in one
chamber a petrified man with a fliut
ax and bowl at his side Other stone
men were found all in the same po-
sition They wer seated with their
heads on their kner and arms clasped
around their legs In attempting to
lift the mummies the men broke oS
the arms and discovered that the fig-
ures would crumble unless tenderly
handled London Edition New York
Herald
During an unprecedent fog
which hung over London on Fri-
day week eleven persons wero
drowned in various parts of the
city by unconsciously walking
into the river canals or docks and
a large number were seriously
injured by falling into cellars ex-
cavations etc or through being
knocked downed and run over by and water pipes twentyone pump
in enpinea and thirteen elevators
vehicles ins engines
OIEOTJLATSS TH20UQE0UT THE 0BSAT 00TT01T AND WHEAT EECI01T 0 EAST AITS HOSTS TSSA3
Xndepondent laa U PTif nga Ueixtrnl in TTotliixi j
JEFFERSON TEXAS WEDNESDAY JANUARY 15 J890
LSO For AriTmTn
NO 30
LOUIS MARX Agent
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY
Capital Prize 300000
Whole Tickets Ml001 Quarters Tickets S500
Halves 10001 Tenths ZOO
TwcnUeths SLIM
TUESDAY Feb 11 1890
GALVESTON
Ill Xnrltet St
ABINET PHOT
gjiSS OO lE oar iDozen
Huving made arrangements to remove my Photograph Gallery to Waco
very soon I will continuo to make
CABINET PHOTOGRAPHS
At 300 Per Dozen Until Further Notice
Dont keep putting off but come at once as the Gallery will soon
be closed
In that mysteriously delayed re-
port of the board of engineers ap-
pointed by congress to recommend
the point on tho Texas coast where
deep water Could be obtained tho
quickest and cheapest Sabine pass
got loft on tho harbor aroa dodge
The real point at issue viz Time
and cheapness wero ignored and a
decision arrived at on considera-
tion wholly immaterial Granting
for argnmentthat Galveston has
the largest harbor idea would not
detract one icta from tho claims of
Sabino Pass Her harbor is amply
sufficient for all present or pros-
pective needs and it is admittod
that the Pass was the place whero
deep water could be obtained the
quicket and cheapest How can
congress act at all on such a paro
doxical recommendation Jasper
NowsBoy
t
The exmanager of tho Chicago
Times has received a sontenco of
81000 fine and five years imprison-
ment m the penitentiary for fraud
lently overissuing the stock of the
Times corporation So it seems
that this too common crimo is not
quite abovo tho reach of tho law in
somo places It is ono of tho most
difficult crimes to prevent and may
bo mado farreaching in its disas-
trous effects Great banking in-
stitutions havo been bankrupted in
this way It is a felony seldom
punished but is sometimes con-
doned presumably on account of
tho high business connections of
the perpetrators All tho moro
reason that an oxamplo should bo
made Chicago leads San Fran-
cisco Bulletin
Tho human family today con-
sists of about 1450000000 indivi-
duals In Asia whoro man was first
planted there aro now about 800
000000 on an averago of 120 to
the square mile In Europo there
aro 320000000 averaging 100 to
tho square mile In Africa there
are 210000000 In AmericaNorth
and South thero are 110000000
relatively thinly scattered In the
islands largo and small probably
10000000 Tho extreme of tho
whito and black are as 5 to 3 tho
remaining 700000000 being in-
termediate brown and tawny
Sad MistaKe of a Dairymans Boy
Do you know a boy who wants
a situation asked ono dairyman
of another
Why I thought you had a good
boyWell
Well he got along pretty well
but when I told him to go out and
feed tho best cow and he dumped
a lot of bran into tho pump I
thought it was about time to let
him go Washington Capital
A Wonderful Building
Chicagos great Auditorium cost
82700000 Under its roof is a
theatre capable of seating 7000
people a large hotel a recitation
hpll a banqueting hall and other
rooms Thoro aro 10000 electric
lights In the building served by
230 miles of oloctric wire and
there aro twentyfive miles of gas
TEXAS
Jofferson Texas Jan 111890
Mumwuraps
The abovo is intended an a leiiu
of roproach for the men who leaver
thoir party whenever in thoiropin
ion it gots to doing badly and for
tho ihon who acknowledge no al
legitncotoaiiy party leadors It
is genorally applied by the leaders
especially by the rascally ones of
both parties and it is very seldom
that a mugwump gots into a public
ottico Hence it requires disinter-
ested self denial to bo a genuino
mugwump But while tho mug
wumps seldom got into oflico thfcy
determine who shall in fully threo
fourths of tho cases
There aro about tec and a half
millions of whito voters in our
country Of theso about five mil-
lions wear tho Democratic collar
and fivo millions wear tho Repub-
lican collar and half a million are
called mugwumps Tho collar men
go for their party right or wrong
and just about offsot one another
Tho mugwumps go for the aide
thoy bolievo to bo right and when-
ever two thirds of them go one way
that sido triumphs Fear of them
keeps both parties much closer to
the line of right and justice than
thoy would otherwise keep Those
who want to uso their parties for
rascally purposes hate the mug
wumps and incito all their little
toadying newspapers to sneer at
and bolittlo thorn Tho very name
mugwump was gotten np to belit-
tle But most of tho independent
voters care littlo for such sneers
but go on determining who shall
fill the offices They elected Cleve-
land in 1881 and Hamsion in 1888
Public Affairs
JTt is tirae that people who pay
tho taxes levied to conduct public
affairs of tho country should havo
something to say as to how much
theso taxes should be The ma-
chinery of law constituted so as to
give as many favorites employ-
ment as possible has bocomosd in-
tricate that a wholo army is re-
quired to manage it Thoro aro
principals who do nothing but
look aftor their subordinates and
draw good salaries there ore super-
intendents who do no work them-
selves and tho men under thorn
but little more It is time that
economy instead of extravagance
should rule and that the horde of
leeches who toil not nor spin
should be made to earn their liv-
ings When land is taxed at three
dollars per aero it amounts to pay-
ing ront for thero is plenty of
land that can bo rented for even
less Then there is a State poll
tax and a township polltax in ad-
dition to tho tax on proportyso that
a man though he owns not a foot
of land or even a lot of household
goods is called upon to pay two
taxes for road purposes evon
though ho may never travel over
a wagon road except on foot It
is tho duty of votors who own
property to protect thomsolvos by
using their influenco in tho Ktost
emphatic manner Encinal
Aaron Burr in Georgia
In March 1807 Aaron Burr
while under guard crossod the riv-
er near Fort Hawkins Burr and
his guards wero drenched and chill-
ed by tho freezing rains whon they
reached tho river Ho was captured
below tho TombigbeoEiver in Ala-
bama and was required to rido on
horeback at tho rate of forty miles
por day Tho guards with thoir
prisoner crossod tho river in ca-
noes in which thoir camp equipago
was placed and by the tho sido ol
their canoes their horses swam un-
til they reached tho Oconee whero
at Fort Wilkinson thoy crossed
the first ferryboat they had seon in
tho wholo route and in a few miles
beyond that river they were shel-
tered by the first roof a house of
entortainment kopt by a Mr Bevan
The house is standing at this day
near Gilledgeville Macon Even-
ing News
Stand Together
Tho merchants and shippers of
Shreveport were never so deter-
mined united and in earnest in
their just claims which officials of
the Texas and Pacific have disregar-
ded These officials rely for success
on the possibility of disunion and
failure to agree on the part of ship-
pers Their mistake will become
apparent very soon the merchants
and shippers have pledged to stand
together and they will do it quiet-
ly firmly Caucasian
A protty Wisconsin schoolmarw
to encourago promptness promised
to kiss the first scholar at school
and the big boys took to roosting
on the fence all night
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