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Vol. XXII. No. 23
Dallas, Texas, Thursday June 5, 1902.
$1.00 Per Annum.
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SMART OXFORDS
.FOR LADIES' WEAR.
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A wonderful success has attended our great sale of Li dies' smart Oxfords. But _
there's little wonder. An offer of Shoes In the best current styles, of the best leath- w
ers and best manufacturers at the very lowest prices ever quoted was bound to prove W
a wtanlnf card.
THE SALE STILL CONTINUES
So If you have failed to take advantage the opportunity is still open,
ment includes:
The assort-
The New Amsterdam Patent Kid, with buckles;
Glaze Kid Patent Tip, extension soles;
New Three-Hole Tie, Blucher cut, Cuban heel;
Allover Patent Kid, Newport button.
All sizes and all lasts to select from, and we fit your feet—the price, well, yes,
that is an importaat point—many of them are good values at $3.50 ^ 1 Qr
per pair none worth less than $3, but all go in this sale at choice for.. .4) \ ♦/J
SANGER BROTHERS I
DALLAS, TEXAS.
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5 <p<p«ipy g!a
TOM JOHNSON A PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE.
The following telegram to the At-
lanta Constitution is ot momentous
import:
Chicago, May 24.—Mayor Tom L.
Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio, desires to
be president of the United States and
is laying his plans accordingly. To-
morrow he is to hold a conference in
this city -with William Jennings Bry-
an, at which he will ask the latter for
his support In hla Ambitious project.
This, of course, in the event itihat Bry-
an himself is not again to be a candi-
date. In a recent Interview Mr. Bryan
said that Tennessee wo\ild be the po-
litical battle ground in 1904, and that
he expected to see the presidential can-
didate come from that region. How-
ever, he is known to be friendly to
Tom Johnson, and the latter will claim
that he can count on the solid labor
vote. The result of the oonference, if
it is made public, will settle the ques-
tion of whether Mr. Bryan doslres an-
other race for the White House, or
whether he will help some other man
to that position.
This news will create no little con-
sternation in the old party camps.
Tom Johnson possesses till the requi-
sites for a successful candidate—pop-
ularity, integrity, intelligence, money—
and is opposed to the plans and meth-
ods of both the old parties. It any
man can line up all the opposition to
the two old parties, Tom Johnson ia
the man.
THE
PEOPLE'S PARTY SHOULD
MOVE.
All the other parties are alive and
active and should not we be so like-
wise? Imperialism is rushing onward
towards its goal with a velocity in-
creasing at every step, while the trusts
are augmenting their exactions and de-
fying the law. The people are crying
loudly for relief, and both the old par-
ties are putting up a fake fight, both
denouncing the trusts and declaring
themselves the friends of labor! They
have often fooled the innocents before
and expect to be able to do so again.
But- side from WatfTii *clifk. the
time for the People's party to act in
Texas is opportune. If the right can-
didates are put in the field and the
Populists come out with their old and
reserve strength a sufficient number of
Democrats will join them to make the
victory assured.
The stench of Democracy has long
polluted the political atmosphere of
Texas and has been growing fouler
and fouler until even those who helped
to produce it can endure it no longer.
We pass over their broken pledges,
malfeasance in office, corporation leg-
islation and utter inefficiency to de-
vise or execute anything to promote
the welfare of the people of this great
State. We confine ourselves to the
rottenness of their "primaries" alone.
They were held in violation of the
law of the State, and of the rule pre-
scribed by their own central and rec-
ognized and official body. It was never
intended by the • manipulators that
these primaries should speak the voice
of the Democratic voters. It was to
prevent his very thing that snap judg-
ment was taken by the heelers and
the primaries called before time, and
at different times, in every county. No
time to think and to confer was to be
permitted; no discussion was to be al-
lowed. The people were rushed to the
primaries, were voted for men whose
views they did not know, and thus
committed to the support of the big
bosses. The vast majority of Texas
Democrats outside of the paid strikers
and rooters are for Mr. Bryan, and
yet they were so managed that they
voted against his principles and for the
Eastern gold-bug Democracy. The
State Democratic machine worked the
game well. The big bosses, of whom
Mr. Bailey Is chief, are opposed to
everything that Mr. Bryan represents,
and are in hearty sympathy with the
plutocratic so-called Democracy of the
East. Bailey has already declared him-
self for Gorman, who stabbed Bryan
in the back. These machine men of
Texas care nothing for principle. One
thing only do they want, and that is
(o win and get the offices. How they
win. they care not. Everything is sac-
rificed to that.
It was not enough to call the pri-
maries unlawfully. They must be cor-
rupted when called. And never in her
history has Texas witnessed such a
scandal. To the extent of their ability
rival candidates poured out their
money, and when this was not suffi-
cient, voters were imported from other
counties.
Fraud vitiates every contract and ar-
gument. It has vitiated the proceed-
ings of tho primaries. No one who par-
ticipated in them is in honor bound
to support the nominees. The best
Democrats in the State renounced all
claim of interest in them when they
saw the unscrupulous methods the ma-
chine was using against them, and de-
clined to be candidates. They knew
they had no chance, playing against
stacked cards. These men who thus
refused were popular favorites, and the
people were thus dep. ived of voting for
the men of their choice. Of course
nobody is bound by the action of the
primaries and the conventions which
were their products.
Now is the time of all times for
Populists to pull themselves together.
In every county in the State and for
every office, tjie Populists should either
pttt up a ticket of their own or com-
with Independent Democrats or
chine of the bogus Democracy. We
believe it can be smashed, and now
is the time to do it. Get together,
brothers, and let us get down to work.
HOW DEBS BECAME A SOCIALIST.
My grip was always packed; and
I was darting In all directions. To
tramp through a railroad yard in the
rain, snow or Bleet half the night, or
till day-break, to be ordered out of
the roundhouse for being an "agita-
tor," or put off a train, sometimes pas-
senger, more often freight, while at-
tempting to dead-head over the divi-
sion, were all in the program, and
served to whet the appetite to con-
quer. One night in mid-w4nter at El-
mira, N. Y., a conductor on the Erie
kindly dropped me off tin a snow
bank, and as I clambered to the top
I ran into the arms of a policeman
who heard my story and on the spot
became my friend.
I rode on engines over mountain
and plain, slept in the caboose and
! bunks, and was fed from their pails
ask whether his work is bringing him
reward, but if the cause is right he
goes on with his sacrifice, for his is a
labor of love for humanity. If we are
to Invest our time and means in re-
form work from mercenary motives,
expecting to get back large returns
other than the success of principles, we
had as well abandon the work and go
in with the old parties who have spoils
to offer. But we are not engaged in
the reform work with mercenary mo-
tives In view. We know that our sacri-
fice can bring us no individual gain,
except a just government, in which
blessing all will share alike.
A plan has been suggested by the
Executive Committee by which the
WORKERS of the party are to organ-
ized in Working Clubs- the men who
THEY SWEAR LIES AND PUT THB
BURDEN OF TAXATION ON
THE POOR.
When M. H. Hecht, Albert Dern-
liam and Henry Dernham, the wealthy
proprietors of the Emporium, shirk
the payment of taxes it would be 110
wonder if poor citizens imitated their
illustrious example. But the poor citi-
zen, as a class, feels a sense of civic
duty and a spirit of decency to which
Hecht and the Dcrnhams seem to be
strangers. The poor citizen, as a class,
respects his oath as he does his sacred
honor, and he deems a man forsworn
a man dishonored.
What can be expected, however, tn
the way 01 civic duty or sense of honor
from men so deaf to the promptings
Sunny Women.
Who has uot known the woman whose I Women who have gained faith in
are willing to help financially and with j of >' iln(i generosity that they force
shop girls to toil for a week be-
hind the long counters of the Empori-
um? How can it be supposed that men
who will not pay just or living wagos
to weak and needy women should pay
their just share of taxes Into the pub-
lic treasury?
The whole city knows that M. H.
Hecht of the rich Emporium corpora-
tion. interested in the large business
of Buckingham & Hecht. is a wealthy
man. So notorious is the fact that
Mr. Hecht is wealthy that the courts
would almost take judicial notice of
It. But Mr. Hecht says, under oath,
that popular opinion is wrong when it.
attributes riches to him. Me is really
in straitened circumstances. True, he
dwells in a large and beautiful cor-
ner mansion ai 2100 Washington street,
but it is very shabbily furnished. The
furniture in tlie entire mansion—un-
der oath he has sworn it—Is worth only
$2000. As there are ten rooms In the
house, there is an average of only
$200 worth of furniture in each (bom.
Many a young man, whoso salary is
less than $100 a month, and who is
their efforts are to be banded together
for the most effective action. The
plan was given in detail in the Mer-
cury of May 8, and will be sent by the
chairman on application. Now it is
proposed to put out organizers on a
basis whereby they can make a fair re-
turn for their labor, and organize
their Working Clubs and get the party
on a basis where it will not beneces-
sary to constantly beg fur funds.
The Mercury urges that a true man
in every neighborhood, who has at
heart the great cause of the people,
proceed at once to organize a Working
Club. Three or more men who want
to see the Allied move prevail, regard-
less of past party affiliation, may or-
ganize one of these clubs. They send
$2.50 to the National Chairman for a
charter, and $1 per month thereafter.
Earh month they will receive tracts,
literature and other things for dis-
tribution, more than they could buy
otherwise with a dollar, to aid in their
work for the general advancement of
the cause. This fund, if this plan be
generally observed, will enable us to
put up the greatest campaign we have furnishing a Hat in contemplation of
CHILD LABOR IN TEXAS.
Dean Stuck in a lecture to the public
school teachers of Dallas quoted from
an article by Elbert Hubbard, the au-
,,mu _ ■** x uuuhB, turn wicu IIU1I1 mcu imim
. essage to Garcia, in ; l)y tl,e swal-thy stokers who still nes-
PhlllS; «e close to my heart, and will until
nf ul? 1 ♦ 1 ^vrW Ul£ S?'eaTt it is cold and still.
shops of Hester street, New York; I]
am familiar with the vice, depravity
degradation of the Whitechapel dis-
trict in East Iyondon; I have visted the
Ghetto in Venice; I know the lot of the
coal miners of Pennsylvania, and I
know something of Siberian atrocities,
but for misery, woe and hopeless suf-
fering r have never seen anything to
equal the cotton mill slavery of South
Carolina—this is my own America, the
land of the free and the home of the
brave! For the adult who accepts the
life of the mills I have no word to say—•
it is his own busines. My plea is in
defense of the innocent. I voice the cry
of the child whose sob is drowned in
the thunder of whirring wheels."
Dean Stuck insisted that the condi-
tion of things in South Carolina threat
Through all these years I was nour-
ished at Fountain Proletaire. I drank
deeply of its waters and every particle
of my tissue became saturated with
the spirit of the working class. I had
fired an engine and been stung by the
exposure and hardship of the rail. I
was with them in their weary watches,
at the broken engine's side and often
helped to bear their bruised and bleed-
ing bodies back to wife and child
again. How could I but feel the bur-
den of their wrongs? How the seed
of agitation fail to take deep root in
my heart?—E. V. Debs.
Owing to the urgent demands of the
representatives of labor a bill has been
formulated in Congress pretende.dly to
. . .. . . , , . ." restrain the judges In their unlawful
ened Texas too; that a beginning had . f the 1njunrtion. but, reality,
already been made of the introduction tQ prant them extended powers and
of the system of child labor, that now confer on them by statute the authori-
was the time to make a strong fight for | ty to Jsgue Injunctlons whlch ,hey did
the enactment of a law that should for-
not have under the common law.
bid its extension, and that it was neces- j Thi8 precious bit of legerdemain
sary to arouse public sentiment in or-,rea(jR aR follow(.:
der that such a bill might, have a "That no agreement combination, or
cbance of passing at the next session oontract by or between two or more
of the legislature. persons to do or procure to be done, or
~.,,a not to do or to procure not to be done,
TILLMAN 8 TRADUCERS. any act jn contemplation or further-
What's the use of lying about it? ance of any trade dispute between em-
Everybody knows that Tillman told ployers and employes ' * * shall
the truth in his speech about South- shall be deemed criminal, nor shall
those engaged therein be Indictable or
otherwise punishable for the crimp of
conspiracy, if such act. committed by
one person would not be punishable as
a crime, nor shall such agreement,
combination, or contract, lie considered
as in restraint, of trade or commerce,
UNLESS THE PI RPOSR OR KF-
ern methods, with regard to the negro.
And hypocrasy, deception and false pre-
tense hold such dominion in the Sen-
ate that a little naked truth awakens
consternation in the darkness of pre-
varication. Least of all should goody-
goody North Carolina papers abuse
Tillman for "disgracing the South by
his admissions." It is not the man who I FECT OF SUCH CONSPIRACY
states the fact, but the man who does j SHALL BE TO CREATE INTIMIDA-
the deed, that. bringB disgrace. WhatiTION BY A SHOW OF PHYSICAL
was done in North Carolina is a matter FORCE, OR THE COURT SHALL
of history One Texan of honor and! FIND THAT THE COMBINATION
high standing at home was forbidden I HAS FOR ITS PURPOSE THE Of
to speak in Carolina in the recent cam- CASIONING OF INJURY TO THE
paign on penalty of death. Mr. bewell, PROPERTY OR BUSINESS OF THE
who was Populist-Republican candi- j COMPLAINANT, OR IS LIKELY TO
date for Lieutenant, Governor two years j RESULT IN SUCH INJURY, NOR EX-
ago, is now suing for injuries done CEPT SUCH PURPOSE BE PROVED
him in the c mpalgn. TO THE SATISFACTION OF THE
We are not criticising or finding any COURT, OR THE COURT FIND THAT
fault with the North Carolina plan. |SUCH IS LIKELY TO BE THE EF-
That is their business and they are j FECT, shall any restraining order or
the judges. What we do find fault with ! injunction bo issued with relation
is the petty meanness and cowardice of I thereto."
those papers who abuse Tillman for
ever known. We can win this year if
we will but buckle down to the work.
See your friends at once and see if
you cannot find three or more willing
to take hold of the work of the party,
and systematically labor to advance it.
Don't delay, brothers. Time is
creeping on—it waits for 110 man. We
are growing older. Day by day, our op-
portunities, like our liberties, are
gradually slipping away from us. "Who
would be free himself must strike the
blow." Your chosen officers cannot
accomplish anything without your sup-
]>ort and confidence. A little help from ]
each will be sufficient. Are there
marriage, has discovered that $200 will
| not go far in fitting up a room. Per-
| haps Mr. Hecht bought his furniture at
; third or fourth band, and got 11 bar-
' gain at that. No one can doubt, of
course, that he has, in fact, furnished
; Ills mansion at a cost of $200 a room,
for has lie not taken'oath to that fact,
| and is ho not an honorable man? Por-
; haps there are 110 carpets I11 his house,
, but only bare floors, perhaps, in place
of chairs, Mr. Hecht uses empty soap
: boxes in his house, perhaps his fam-
: ily dine otT tin plates and drink out of
tin cups. Such dire poverty as Mr.
■ disposition is described by that one word
"sunny ?" There's always a laugh lurk-
ing on lier lips. Iler checks are ever
ready to dimple in smiles. Her house-
hold influence is as brightening and
stimulating as the sunshine. Nothing
can be crueler than to have this sun-
shine blotted out by disease. But this
is a common cruelty. The young wile
who was the sunshine of the home be-
comes its shadow.
Women rarely re-
alize how much the
general health of
the 1kmlv depends
on the local health
of the delicate wom-
anly organs. They
suffer disease to
grow tt] '>n them
through neglect
until all the sun-
shine of life is
eclipsed. They be-
come w e n k , lan-
guid, nervous, ir-
ritable and hyster-
ical. They cannot
control their feel-
ings and a nervous
outbreak ending in
a flood of tears becomes an almost daily
experience.
Every young wife should know the
value of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
tion in the protection and preservation
of the health. It promotes regularity,
dries the drains which enfeeble body
and mind, and cures inflammation, ul-
ceration and female weakness. It nour-
ishes the nervous system aud gives to
the body the balance and buoyancy of
perfect health.
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a
purely vegetable preparation which will
not injure the weakest woman. It con-
tains 110 alcohol and is absolutely free
from opium, cocuiue aud all other nar-
cotics.
P
vorite Prescription" through a knowl.
edge of the cures it has performed
should not allow themselves to be ca-
joled into the purchase of a substitute
medicine. No substitute will do foi
weak and sick women what Dr. Pierce'l
Favorite Prescription is doing daily-
make weak women strong and sick
women well.
Thought There Was No Cure.
"I can say thai
your medicine
cured me," writei
Mrs. Maud Pearce,
of Stoutsville, Pair-
field Co., Ohio. "VI
had suffered abmit
twelve years from
female weakness
and I had altuo.1l
given up, thinking
there was no -earn
ior me. Then a
lieanl about .Dr.
Pierce's medicina
and thought I would
try it, and can say
that seven bottles
of your ' Favorite
Prescription' made
me well I am now able to do my own
housework. I took about twelve bottles
iu all of Dr. Pierce's medicines. Took
some of the 'Golden Medical Discov-
ery,' 'Favorite Prescription' and some
of the ' Pleasant Pellets.' "
Women suffering from disease in
chronic form are invited to consult Dr.
Pierce by letter free. All correspond-
ence is strictly private. Address Dr.
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are pccu.
liarly adapted to the needs of delicate
women. They are a perfect laxative
and do not innke the user a victim of
the pill habit. They cure constipation
and its consequences by curing- the
cause of constipation.
on these lines, write at once for full
particulars and plans, stating what ter-
ritory you wish to work in. There Is
work for every man to do. The liar-
vest. is ripe and the workers are few.
Your National Chairman is getting ap-
peals daily for literature bearing on
the Allied move, but is unable to fur-
nish it until the means can be secured
to print it. and send it out.
Let there be a general response to
the call for volunteers. Perhaps upon
it depends the future.
PEACE AT LAST.
It seems that the prolonged struggle
in South Afrieu Is al last ended; thiil
t)i<- sturdy Boers will lay down their
arms and return to peaceful pursuits,
and Kitchener and his forces return to
other conquests- undoubtedly social—
until their services are needed in other
direc tions. The British-Boer war has
been, in many respects, the most re-
markable in history, but of all Its facta
and features the public has been kepi
fully advised. It lias been a stubborn
contest, has decimated the ranks of
Krugerdoin, u-nd has drained England's
resources. le It any wonder, then, that
the announcement of pence, although
expected and discounted for many wea-
ry weeks, was received with such ex-
ultation in King Edward's domain, an
■xultatlon. by the way, which is shared
Heeht's must be tho cause of much
not"thousands among'us'who'havo'at J suffering to himself and his family. It
heart this great cause, and are will- wou"« « J fo[ " friends to
ing to stand up and be counted as the | fi've Mr. Hecht a meal whenever that
workers of the great cause of human 1 |pan "one. without hurting his pride.
... , 1 The poor man has not the price of a
Don't neglect this. If you are willing 1 *•, H>« ™Hflel
to go to work organizing the true men ln the ,issea«or ■; office shows
L h ® .... that he has not a cent ot money un-
secured. He has sworn it, and in he
not an honorable man?
But. if the poverty of M. H. Hecht Is
dire, that of his associates, the pair of
Dernhams, is abject. Compared to
them, Hecht with his $2,000 worth of
furniture and not a cent In his pocket,
Is a magnified Croesus.
Albert Dernhnm lives in a little hut
of nine apartments and several baths.
He has performed the remarkable fin-
ancial fpat of furnishing Ills simple
abode at the rate of $2!) an apartment,
or $:iG0 for the entire house. These llg
tires may seem preposterously low, hut
they are taken from Mr. Dernham'x
statement, tinder oath, on file in the
assessor's office, and Ik not Albeit
Dernham, like M. H. Hecht, an hon-
orable man? Albert Dernham could
give Russell Sage any handicap and
still heat I1I111 at cutting odwu valua-
tions. lie lias a sewing machine which
he appraises under oath—at $5, dia-
monds (plural) worth, according to hi-
sworn estimate, only $.r,0, and a billiard
table worth $40, Albert. Dernham, like
M. II Hecht, has no cash, no money In
bank and no bonds, .lust at present
this destitute merchant is touring Eu
rope, Egypt aud the Holy Land with
NICK
WILLIAMS
BCSt
PURE
AND =
MELLOW
WHISKEY
We.'ask all who want, to^get something for theirfloved ones to try our
goods. We have it from
I TO 20 YEARS OLD
Also Hour Mash
Itve and Corn Whiskey, Peach and Applo Brandy.
and Wheat Whiskey.
We guarantee every drop wo have to bo absolutely pure, for we filter
our goods through nine immense and densely packed (liters.
Wo will be glad to furnish you with our'complete price list, and all
correspondence will lie carried on in plain envelopes.
THE OLD NICK WILLIAMS CO.
Address Lock Box No, n. Williams, N. C.
W. W IIAItltV mid A, KAUI.ANU, Proprietors, Bulla*.
The best equipped, largest, most successful and progressive bualneaa ooUeg*
In Texas. Patronized and endorsed by more bankers, prominent business
men and high public officials than all other business colleges tn tke State
combined. Finest Shorthand department in the Sonth. Positions aacurei
for our graduates. Railroad fare paid. Board $!•. Catalogue free.
hy all the'civilized world? Civilization J family. No doubt kind-heart"!
everywhere Is glad that It Is over, glad I transportation companies are «arryiriK
tluit ;in agreement has been reached I the family free of charge, and liospi-
which will result In the cessation of I table Innkeepers are boarding and
hostilities, and glad, above all, that the| lodging them for nothing.
telling the truth and have had never
a word to say against the acts to which
the great South Carolina Senator re-
ferred.
Anybody else to smash the ma-sary.
If you are dissatisfied with the pres-
ent political conditions, why not. try to
organize a working club and aid in get-
ting a change? See two or three of
your neighbors and get them Interest-
ed. Show them the platform of the
Allied Party, which may be found else-
where in this paper, and if they en-
dorse the principles set forth in it,
write to Chairman Jo A. Parker at.
Louisville, Ky., and get full instruc-
tions h-ow to organize and go to work.
It make^ no difference what party they
or you may have worked for or been
allied with, if they believe the Allied
platform is right proceed to organize
and go to getting new members. Hold
frequent meetings and discuss any
question you may desire. Any active,
intelligent man in the community can
organize a workers club if he will
try. The people's liberties are rapidly
disappearing, and it behooves every
patriot to get to work. Won't you try
your hand, brother. Write Chairman
Parker at Louisville, Ky., and he will
give you all the Information neces-
A WORD TO THE POINT.
In another column will be found the
advertisement of Chairman Parker for
one thousand -organizers to work for
the National Committee of the Allied
People's Party. It. should be respond-
ed to by every earnest worker in our
ranks.
If the cause of the People's Party
is worth a baubee—If It is a righteous
cause, if it is the cause of the great
common people, as we all really be-
lieve it to be, it is worthy our utmost
and most unselfish efforts. If It is not
worthy of our efforts, it is not fit to
live.
To succeed in this work is going tn
require work—hard, unremitting, nev-
er-ending work, on the part of those
who espouse it. It Is going to require
money; not much from any one or two
or three, but a little from many.
Wihout money to pay for printing,
and the work Incidental to political
campaigning, the cause cannot possi-
bly succeed.
When the fate of the American colo-
nies hung in the balance, Robert Mor-
ris, a financier of great wraith for that
time, brought his private fortune to the
rescue, and saved the nation, though
he afterwards died in the poorhouse.
terms of settler..ent ure so favorable to
the Boers. That the majority of iniin-
kind sympathized wiih the struggling
burghers <-nn not be doubted. They
were waging a hopeless war, though,
and It was naturally expected that It
would end with shackles nTOimd the
burghers' limbs. Therefore, the an-
nouncement of the terms yesterduy
caused somewhat of a. surprise. Ac-
cording to Mr. Balfour's statement, the
war is closed under the following con-
ditions:
The burgher forces will lav down
their arms and hand over all rifles,
guns and munitions of war In their
possession or under their control.
All prisoners will be brought back ns
soon as possible to South Africa with-
out loss of liberty or property.
No H'-tlon will be taken against the
prisoners except where they nre guilty
of breaches of th* rules of war.
Dutch Is to be taught In the schools If
desired hy parents and used In the
courts If necessary.
UlfleK are allowed for protection
Military occupation Is to be with-
drawn as soon as possible and self-gov-
ernment substituted.
There Is to be no tax on the Trans-
vaal to pay the cost of the war.
The sum of three million sterllnif will
he provided for re-stocklng the Boers'
farms.
The rebels are liable to trial, accord-
ing to the law of the colony to which
they belong.
The rank and file will be disfranchis-
ed for life.
The burgher:- don't fare so badly un-
der those conditions, not near so badly
as they would have fared had they
been subdued. They lose Independ-
ence, for which they were fighting; they
lose their government, their Identfty as
a state, and their beloved president, but
they retain their property, will have
their farms restored, are not taxed with
the cost of the war. and can resume
peaceful and profitable pursuits under
nominal British rule. As a distinguish
rd gentleman onre laconically remark-
ed. "war Is h—l,,f and It Is better that
it Is our under most any conditions.
I like your paper very much better
and will work for It among my oelgh-
But the real patriot does not stop to bore.—G. A. McNeil.
Ibnry Dornham's furniture, «s he
swears, is worth fully |.")00. Ills piano
is rated at $100, which is just twice the
value of the piano owned by the Itin-
erant Albert.
II our millionaires continue to be so
Impoverished a condition the social
problem of the coming years will b--
not the amelioration of labor, but the
amelioration of capital. Ah things go
now, the richer a man get* according
to Dun's and Hradslreel's, the poorer
he gets according to his statement of
personal property to the assessor.
San Francisco Bulletin.
BRITISH MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP,
A consular report of extraordinary
Interest has been issued by the tftale
Department under the title of "Muni-
cipal So'lallrm in Ureal Britain." I'
Is made | y James Boyle, our Consul
at Liverpool.
Mr. Boyle remarks that iu IK7."> the
capital Invested in municipal under
takings In Great Britain wa* JiOrt.OOO
000 and in 1900 it. was $ I.r,00,000,000
There are now in Great Britain !t.'!l
municipalities owning waterworks, ' n
owning the street railroads, 2S owning
the gas works and 181 supplying elec-
tricity. Most of these are in Kngland.
Municipalities were not allowed to
work the tramways until J89H. It is es-
timated that half of the gas-user In
England use municipal gas.
Am very much pleased wlt.h the Mer
rury in Its new form and the old way
of putting things. It has ever been
faithful and true to Its principles at.
all times and under ail conditions,
while many of our public men with less
temptations h;ive gone down Into the
vortex of the trled-and-found-wantlng.
May the eMrcury go on until it has at-
tained the realisation of its faintest
hopes, and I am sure with the same
hand at the rudder the old ship will
safely reach its destination.—V. W.
Xjong, Tyler, Tex.
DINNER
for iwlllntf r.4 botes Snlrom Roups or botttM wUtom „
trooimaniir Hott|>«awl 1'mfunmn, irhr« lrr« to .
Ixjx or bottle,n tM-nntiful cut gi&«« pAtttriiin-iiiohfrtm
many oth«r valuable Articled. To tb« atfnt wlio*4)tM beioaimpl
We ft 1 riv« Oartalit. « «M#hra, Bwlmw,
Mimrnctita of All. kind* awl many othrr premiums
lined.
to rt-li* r poo4ft and collect for them. W e in caeh
jll'rt crtlAlOfOAUrllAto^ii
~ •AMonallX naauiu our readers that tho
Kit* our &M !ene (miner Met fall sir*, banrUo
The Chance of a Lifetime!
Homes For All! No Rent. No Interest.
The Dallas Co-operative and
Texas Improvement Company.
fiencral OfTlccs, 301-302 Exchange Bank Building, Dallas, Tmrs.
.//•'HUMH f KF.A n ft}'. Attorney, Vice Pru., AcUnp I'm. JOHN M. UcCOY, Trtcu.
II. y. M//./.A'/i, formerly with /'urcetl Mi'lin<i ami Elevator Co. Neoretory.
./ IK n'll.sny, Hen. Myr. and Hupt. AgeneUt. A"ICA ItHY A KKAHBY, Ged. JUorntyi,
Write for particulars to J. O. Wilson, 801-802 Exchange Hank Building
Dallus, Texas.
The Continental 4
The UKANOJiHT MOW Kit
fcsturi-, lounfl In no otber mower,
which uthera tail to cut. T'js
C8PEEDE MOWER
ever placed befora the farmer. The changeable speed
■olvei the question of rutting Wire or Bamuda ftan,
CHASO K OF SI'ICED U made by the aaere touch
of a lerer, without even stopping the
team. Do uot fail to iaveiUgate this
aplendld machine. Made ia 4 ft 6 in.,
5 ft. and (ft. ulaei. We handle llay Prewei,
Drag Rakea, Hay Stacker*, Mover an4
Knife Orlnden, Baliag Tlei, Binder*,
Thresh*m, Traction Engisee, Wagoal
and Buggies. WKtlB VB MB
n
WAMTB.
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PARLIN & OHENDORFF DO., DALLAS, TEXAS.
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