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THE SOUTHERN MRRCIJRY.
GRAND DUKE SERGIUS
VICTIM OF ASSASSINS
St. Petersburg, Feb. 17.—The Associated Press has received a dispatch
from Moscow, stating that Orand Duke Serglus while driving In his carriage
to Kremlin at Moscow today was assassinated by a bomb which was
thrown 'under his carriage.
Th«j carriage was blown to pieces. The assassins were arrested. One of
them was dangerously wounded. Several students who were In. the vicinity
were taken into custody.
PARTICULARS OF ORAND DUKE'S DEA . n.
Moscow, Feb. 17.—While Grand D -ke Herglus wns driving to-day from
Nicholas palace through the senate quarter his carriage was followed by
two cabs. At the law courts a sleljfh in which two men, one of whom
was dressed as a worklngman, went quickly ahead of the Grand Duke's car-
riage. The cab then slowed up, allowing the carriage to pass and at that
moment the bomb was thrown beneath the carriage. The force of the ex-
plosion broke all the windows in the law courts and the report was heard
outside the city. The carriage was blown to jdece, nothing but the four
wheels remaining. The horses were not hurt and bolted. The Grand Duke
was instantly killed. His head was blown off, actually being separated from
the body, which was frightfully mangled.
EARLY RUMOR OF ASSASSINATION.
London, Feb. 17.—A dispatch to Keuter's Telegram company from Kt.
Petersburg says a telephone message has been received there from Moscow
announcing that an explosion had occurred at Kromlln, where the Orand
Duke Serglus has been residing, and it la lumorcd that the grand duke
was killed. The dispatch adds thnt no confirmation of the report was ob-
tained and the population of Moscow is greatly excited. According to an-
other report the bomb was thrown beneath Grand Duke Serglus" carriage
end the latter with the grand duke was brown to pieces.
CONFIRMATION OF RUMOR.
London. Feb. 17.—Anotbc-r dispatch to the Reuters Telegram company
from St. Petersburg says the later telephone message from Moscow ntntes
that Grand Duke Serglus was assassinated whllie driving towards Kremlin
and near the court of Justice.
His carriage was followed by another vehicle containing two men. A
bomb was thrown beneath the Grand Duke's carriage. There was a violent
explosion., the carriage was shattered and the grand duke was killed.
The assassins were arrested. One of the men was wounded dangerously.
Several students have been taken into custody.
Grand Duke Serglus, uncle of the Russian emperor and formerly gov-
ernor genera] of Moscow, is understood to have been, condemned to death by
the revolutionary party In December last. The governor generalship of
Moscow was abolished early in the year and the grand duke, accodlng to
dispatches from Moscow Jan. 4, kept closely to the well-guarded Nlekou.skl
palace on the outskirts of Moscow, retaining his position of commander-in-
chief of the military district, letter in January, however, It was announced
that the grand duke had sought refug ■ In one of the palaces of Kremlin.
He had been classed the most reactionary member of the Imperial fam-
ily as head of what Is referred to as the war party and has been stigma-
tized by the liberals as "Russia's evil genius." Oranr'i IJuke Serglus was
born in 18f 7 and was married in 1S84 to Trln^ess Elizabeth, of Hesse-
Darmstadt. They have 110 children.
COACHMAN WAS KILLED.
Moscow, Feb. 17.—The coachman was also killed. He was so frightfully
turned by the explosives with which the bomb was charged, that he died
while being taken to the hospital. On the arrest of the murderers, neither
of whom are known to the police, one of them coolly said: "1 don't care,
I have done my job."
INTENSE EXCITEMENT.
|( N 8t. Petersburg is Worked Up Over
Bomb- Throwing Incident.
St. Petersburg. Feb. 17.—(4:.10 p.
m.)—Mews of the 'tragedy in which
Grand Duke Serglus was blown up
create I a tremendous sensation in St.
Petersburg whete the announcement
by telephone from Moscow arrived
during (he afternoon. Owing to the
Intense excitement pievalliug at Mos-
cow few particulars were ascertain-
able. The tragedy in l ullty was no
great surprise, as it was known that
the terrorists had already condemned
the grand duke to death.
Ever since the affair of Jan. -2 the
Inauguration of a bomb throwing cam-
paign. has been anticipated. (Irand
Duke gins, who was a brother-in-
law, as well as an uncle of the em-
peror, and who had exercised Immense
Influence at court was regarded as the
most reactionary of the gland dukes.
As governor of Moscow, he was In-
tfcnrely unpopular. Ills advent an gov-
ernor general of Moscow was follow-
ed by expulsion of Jews from the cen-
tral provinces and throughout his ad-
ministration his rigorous and harsh
measures aroused the greatest of hos-
tility cmong the students. Two years
ago after the student riots In which
many were killed or wounded several
hundred expulsions to Siberia follow-
ed umler orders of Grand Duke Serglus
and General Trepoff, now governor gen-
eial of St. Petersburg, but then chief
of police of Moscow.
As there wire many threats made
against his life the grand duke was
obliged to flee to his summer residence
twenty miles from the city. During
the recent strike disturbance the grand
duke left Dlskoutohny palace on the
outskirts of the city where ho has been
living and took refuge in the side ram-
parts of Kremlin, where he has since
lived In what is known as the little
palace, opposite the famous statue of
Alexander II. The trip to Kremlin on
that, occasion was made at night be-
tween solid lines of troops. Orand
Duke Serglus was the wealthiest mem-
ber of the imperial family. He was
tall, handsome and cordial In manner
In spits of the ruthless fashion with
which he exercised his authority as
governor general. He is childless, but
had adopted two children of his hroth-
er, Paul, who was banished on nccount
of a morganatic alliance. Serglus' rec-
ord as a soldier was not brilliant. He
suffered a disastrous defeat at the
hands of Gen. ICuropatkln during the
famous Koursk maneuvers.
man who Is seeking to have the sen-
ate expel Senator Piatt of Now York
from that body on the ground that
Senato;' Piatt does not represent the
people, but the American Express com-
pany.
"The judiciary committee of the sen-
ate- Is now considering the charges I
have filed against Senator Piatt." said
Mr. Post last night. "Owing to sen-
atorial courtesy i had some difficulty
in getting the charges before the sen-
ate. I sent them to President Pro Tem
Frye, with the request thnt he pre-
sent them to the proper committee.
Senator Krye at tlrst did not under-
stand my request, thinking that I want-
ed him to present them as president
pro tempora of the senate and assured
him if he failed and declined to do so
I would be compelled to resort to a
writ of mandamus, lie acted promptly.
"Of course, Senator Piatt opposed
the post-check currency bill solely on
account of Hellish motives. He knows
that once the post-check system Is
adopted the money order business of
the express companies he represents
In the senate, will dwindle to nothing.
Piatt and a few other senators have be-
come so bold recently that they Imag-
ine they are responsible to no one but
the corporations they represent. I
have had a careful poll of the house
and senate made and I know that SO i
per cent of the members of both
branches are In favor of the post-check
bill.
"Some people have asked me why I
am maintaining an expensive bureau
in Washington to further the interests
of this bill. I like the work. Mr. Car-
negie sees tit to give millions each year
to establish libraries. Dr. Parsons and
a sight faster than those who stood
sponsors for their appointments wish.
Take the case of Treasurer Roberts, for
Instance. Roberts is a creature of
Platt. On this account he opposed the
pvst-check bill. The house committee
on postofflces and postroads had Mr.
Roberts before it and the objections he
urged against the hill were so flimsy
and puerile that they excited laugh-
ter. I nee that Mr. Roberts is to be
retired. The- president was acquainted
with the objections of Mr. Roberts and
also why he was opposing the bill.
"1 saw the president Saturday. He
is full of his coining trip to Texas. He
liken the people of this state. He wants
to get close to them when he comes.
He is enthusiastic over the prospects
for a great hear hunt. The president
will come to Fort Worth. When he
gets here the people of Fort Worth will
be surpris-d to find how well posted
ho is on the affairs of this city. He
has watched the progress of tills place
too closely to say that he has been only I
a casual observer. He likes the cat-
tlemen and Port Worth Is regarded us
the sent of the cattle Industry. He Is
riot corning to be gazed upon and re-
garded as one inspired. He wants to
be regarded as one of the common
people and nothing more. I am posi-
tive that his directness, his earnest-
ness and his honesty will endear him
to every man In this state who comes
In contact with him. The president Is
but a true representative of the aver-
age Ameiican. type. He hates shams,
desplsef: crooks and lights with results
those who would pollute the offices
they hold.
"I elo not expect to have congress
take any action on the post-check sys-
tem this session. Nor do F expect the
charges against Senator Platt to be
heard this session. Mut next congress
the bill will become a law and the Platt
charges will be heard. What will I
do with the bureau I am maintaining
In Washington then.? Well, there is a
world of work to be done. There Is
still a lot of rottenness in the post-
office department. For instance, only
recently the bureau I am conducting
has discovered where a postal route
in California has been served for years
at a cost of $3fi0 annually. Recently,
through a jumble anil a lot of gum shoe
work this route was relet to a mall
contracting firm for $35,000 a year.
That's graft, pure and simple. We are
today paying the railroads approxi-
mately $44,000,000 a year to carry
mails. This Is just $34,000,000 too much.
The mails can be carried for $10,000.-
000 a year and still leave a large mar-
gin of profit to the roads.
"I am having prepared a series of
articles showing the profligate waste In
the postoffhe department and these ar-
ticles will be published all over this
country. They will be complied from
data obtained direct from the postofflce
department and will be accurate in
every detail. There Is a lot <if work to
be done and somebody must do It or
the people will have to pay millions
annually for services that are not per-
formed .
"Tell me that to do a great public
service Is not satisfaction enough for
any man? I believe Hint I can get rid
of my money In tills manner and do
my country a greater service, than by
giving It to wealthy colleges frf-build-
ing libraries. There Is nothing 1 like
better than to hit a dlrtjs, head wheji
1 see one, and there are many , dirty'
beads In Washingtrm that will get tap-
ped before i turn up my toes."
VENGEANCE METED
T0BRUTAL CRIMINALS
The Gaston National Bank
I-.ockh.irt, Tex., Feb. 17.—An atte mpt at assault was made yesterday af-
ternoon upon a young woman at Dale, a station eight miles Bouth of here.
The man charged with attempting the assault was a middle-aged, one-eyed
Mexican named Carlos Munoi. who was taken away from the officers by a
mob of about forty men, and his fate is not known here ut midnight.
It Is believed that the man has been lynched, for he was not taken away
from the officers without show of fight, and In the fusillade of bullets be-
tween the officers and mob a great many shots were exchanged. When the
news of the assault reached here Deputy Sheriff Walter Alexander and Con-
stable Jeff Moore took out papers and left in seach of the man. They caught
him near Dale last night and were preparing to return to Lockhart with him
w hen Are was suddenly opened on them from ambush.
The officers say that the attack came as a surprise, though they say that i
after the first shot thev held their grounds fighting for the custody of the
prisoner until the meager supply of ammunition In their weapons had been
exhust«d, when they were forced to flee, leaving the prisoner behind.
This light between the officers and mob occurred* lust night shortly before
8 o'clock and an hour later the officers reached Lockhart.
The ambush was on the public highway about two miles from Dale. Dep-
uty Sheriff Alexander and Constable Moore say they had not expected such a
move, although the excitement of the populace of the little place was strung
to a high tension.
The woman was married about two months ago. The families are among
the best known In this section and have a widle circle of frlendB, who are de-
termined to deal out speedy justice to the accused Mexican.
(•ueotwllng Qaeton * Ayres.)
Opened its Doors Feb. 1st.
Cspitsl 9250,003
W. H. GABTON, President D. E. WAGGONER. Vice-President
K. K. GAHTON, Second Vice-President it. Cl. AYRE8, Cashier.
J. D. JACKSON, Assistant Cashier.
The banklug business of Individuals, Firms and Corporations is
solicited. It will be libera!1.'' treated and given the closest attention.
The old banking firm of Gaston <f- Ayres enjoyed the reputation of being
cafe and conservative business meis. The uew bank hopes to maintain
the reputation and good name of its predecessor anu to increase the**
advantages is the policy of the new management
DIRECTORS:
W. H. Gaston, D. E. Waggoner R. C. Ayres," J. H. Keith, Rhodes Berk -
J. D. Jackson, R. K. Gaston, I. J. Willlngham, M. M. Brooks, Sidney Rein*
hardtc. C. Slaughter, A. G. Elliott, Jr., T. I* Camp, W. H. Thomaa ani
V. P. Webster.
ASSAULTED BY NEGRO.
Smlthville. Tex., Feb. 17.—Last evening near Barton's creek, eight miles
south of here, the wife of a farmer was criminally assaulted by a negro, who
so far has escaped.
The woman was washing clothes In her yardi when the negro slipped up
to the gallery, took a quilt off of It and wrapped it around her head and ac-
complished his purpose and fled. As soon as the report reached here Con-
table Smith and a large crowd/ of citizens left for the scene and are scouring
the woods in the vicinity for the brute, whose description they haw, and if
caught and his identity proved!, a lynching can hardly be prevented.
RAPIST SHOT TO PIECE8.
Smlthville. Tex., Feb. 17.—(4 a. m.)—The negro charged with criminally as-
saulting Mrs. Powell Tiffany was caught late last night and shot to pieces by
the mob. He was identified as the party wanted and! made a full confession.
He was run to earth at Upton, a small town about six miles from here.
In his confession the negro implicated three others, and it is also said
that there are three women Involved In the crime.
Two of these parties have been arrested and the third Is now being
Bought.
While searching' for the negro, the Smlthville mob found hanging to a
tree the body of the Mexican taken from officers at Dale and lynched) earlier
in the evening.
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KANSAS CITY,
AND ALL POINTS
NORTH and EAST.
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Ask any Katy Agent on route.
W. G. CRU8H, G. P. A T. A.
Dallas, Texas
STATE SOLONS
BANDY WORDS
Austin. Feb. 17.—A very unexpected
rcrap was pulled off in the houste yes- |
terday tin the bill of Senators-TermJlTj
and Chambers concerning confessions j
of persons accused of crime. This
sc-r;i|> was participated In by Shannon j
of Hell, Ware of Donley, Thompson of .
Hunt and Uurnett of Kerr. The point !
In this bill provides that confessions
< f parties charged with a felony shall
only be made in open court, and not lit
Jail cells and In confidence, behind
cloy d dcors to district and county at-
torneys.
An unusual amount of Interest was
manifested in the passage of this bill,
the climax of which was reached when
Mr. Time.n of Nueces moved to destroy
II by striking out the enacting clause.
Mr. Hill of Denton flushed his maid-
en sword in the discussion of this bill.
"Now like Alphons. I admire the
courage of my friend Gaston from
Kerr, but I deprecate his judgment."
Proceeding In this facetious strain
Mr. Hill Inquired of Mr. Barcus of Mc-
Lennan "where he learns In his study
of the law that a simple statute re-
pealed a constitutional provision. i
deny the proposition."
Mr, Hill opj>osed the whole oct as
being a bad law and contrary fo good
I public morals. "If you pass this bill."
; Mr. Hill said, "you brand the sheriff.-!
and other officers of this state as vil-
lains and scoundrels."
The motion to strike out the enact-
ing clause of the bill did not prevail,
but a motion to lay the bill on the
table was adopted in a whoop which
has the same parliamentary effect.
♦
The senate put on Its patriotic
clothes yesterday and compiled with
Mr. Hockefeller see fit to give millions (the demands of the Democratic plat-
No Decision Reached.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 17.—The As-
sociated Press is In i>osltlon to an-
nounce positively that after a long
consultation which was held yesterday
at Tsarskoe-Selo with the committee of
ministers, headed by its president, M.
■Wltte, on the advisability of summon-
ing a Zemsky Zazor. the emperor ar-
rived at no definite decision..
POST TALKS
ABOUT PLATT
.fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 17 C. W.
Post of Battle Creek, Mich., Inventor
Of Postum, Grape-Nuts and other prep.
■ a rations, and a millionaire, Is l.i the
He is accompanied by his wife,
liter and two maids. They are
yearly to assist colleges. Other peo
pie who have means, give to this and
to that. Some spend money on yachts
and other forms of pleasure. I believe
that 1 can do my country more good
by giving them something that every-
one can appreciate and use and some-
thing that will be lasting, than by fol-
lowing in the footsteps of others, Then
again, i like the work. 1 like to be do-
ing something for this country and the
people of this country. It is a hobby
with me. Just as building llbiarlcs is a
hobby with Mr. Carnegie. I will defy
any man to show where the post-check
bureau In Washington is doing or has
done, has been other than clean and
honorable and totally without any sel-
fish motives In view.
"Senator Platt tells his friends in
Washington that 'Post is a era ay man:
don't pay any attention to crazy men.'
1 answer Mr. Platt by saying that It is
a (hsu of a bull pup a-holdlng to a
root and I am the bull pup and ho Is
the root. 1 am largely Interested In
corporations. I hold a considerable
number of railroad stocks and bonds.
But the hall of legislation Is not 11
place for the representatives, of cot -
potations to represent the corporations.
The men are sent there to represent
the people. When they muke the In-
terests of the people subservient to the
Interests of the corporations. It Is high
and mighty time that some one should
call them to account. I am not fight-
ing Mr. Platt for opposing my bill,
but I am fighting him because he Is
making tho Interests of the express
companies superior to the Interests of
the people, and I shall continue to fight
hsm.
"I want to say a good word for the
president right here. President Roose-
velt is in American first and a partisan
afterward. He Is a clean man clear
form and passed by a large majority
an anti-nepotism bill.
This body also passed a blil author-
izing the Texas and New Orleans rail-
way comimny to sell its Dallas branch
ot the Rock Island, Senator Hawkins
proposed an amendment to strike out
the committee amendment which pro-
vides thnt this railroad shall furnish
free transportation to the heads of the
several state departments, nnd to the
sheriffs of the several counties. The
amendment by Hawkins was adopted.
way to California for « trip
stopped off In Kort Worth to visit j through. He is cleaning out the ras-
f^s parents, Mf. Post Is the " " ~ " "
■mwt&m "
cats Just as rapidly as he can and he
ridding the service of many of them
The suffering public, and Intensely
anxious people, would love to know the
result of the Interview held yesterday
between Judge W. D. Williams. Speak-
er F. W. Setibury and Governor Lan-
Imm. This confad was behind closed
doors and of the star chamber order,
but Is supposed to be on the right-
eousness or unrighteousness of the
Williams Intangible assets bill
Judge Williams, of course, sought to
Impress the value of this measure upon
the mind of the governor, while the
effort of Speaker Seabury to Impress
the mind of the governor fs uncertain
and undefined.
The governor has not rushed Into
print nnd said whether he would or
would not sign this bill If it should
pass the senate and house but It is un-
derstood that It meets his official ap-
proval.
The governor understands that Tex-
as n eds money, and that the ordinary
method* of raising money will not suf-
fice for present emergencies, and that
some new sources of wealth must bo
discovered. If the Income of the state
Is adequate to Its ordinary and neces-
sary expenditures.
•> ♦ ♦
The lobby of the house was very sub-
stantially and materially augmented
jflesterday by the arrival of
Masters Louis, Carter and Eu-
gene Hancock. aged respective-
KUROPATKIN CHARGED
WITH INCOMPETENCY
St. Petersburg, Feb. 17.—The arrival in. St. Petersburg of Gen. Grlppen-
berg, former commander of the second Afanchurian army, who reached here
at midnight, cuused a good deal of a Sensation In military circles. The gen*
eraLfiftinkly avows h«| relinquished the command after the recent attempt of
the' Russians to flank 'Field Marshal 'Oyama, because, as he claims, Gen.
'KuropatMn refused to send him help when ..victory was in Gen. Grippen-
beig's hands instead of ordering the latter to withdraw. Grlppenberg per-
sonally ■'reported on the situation to -Emperor Nicholas. It is too early to
s^y" what the result will be. although it Is evident that Kuropaklu's enemies
• a.re pushing the campaign against him..
It is onlv fair to Kuropatkin to say that his friends claim Kuropatkin's
side of the story is that he only intended to make a demonstration in force,
and Grlppenberg pressed the attack too far and became too much Involved.
In an Interview, Gen. Grlppenberg said: "I am glad to give an account
of the battle of my army. The telegrams I have seen have been far from
the truth. Kuropal'* of course ordered the advance, but he imposed
ccnditions to it that it Should not go beyond Heikoutal and Sandepas. My
plan was to capture He. >utai and then outflank Sandepas. From the
first army corps before Heikoutai I detached a brigade which occupied
Heikoutai Jan. 27. The Japanese cqt in from the south and the brigade
came under cross fire, but held out until I got up another brigade to
cover the retreat. The Japanese were now concentrating on the left. Dur-
ing the evening of Jan. 25 I and my army were ordered under no circum-
stances to fall back from our positions. The next morning my whole front
was engaged.
"Altogether I had sixty-two battalions. The enemy had at least twice
n.s many. The battle of Jan. 25 continued until the evening. We did not
surrender an Inch of ground. My left- llank, which was clearing the road
to Sandepas. being weak. I asked the commander-in-chief, who had sixty
battalions available, for reinforcements. He declined to send any. apparent-
ly taking the Japanese demonstration at the center as being a general ad-
vance. Nevertheless I decided to storm Heikoutai the next day. All the sur-
rounding villages were already in our hands.
"Early on Jan. 27 the fiercest fighting occurred. We again held our own.
The road to Sandepas. the Japanese point of concentration, was quite clear
of the enemy. I therefore again appealed to the commander-in-chief for
reinforcements. If he had listened to my entreaties we would have driven
in on iron ring 100,000 of the enemy. The Japanese being menaced by a
strong force of Russian cavalry on the south and southwest, evidently re-
alized the danger of tackling us. In their desperation on Jan. 28 they four
times desperately assaulted our outer positions and were beaten off each
time in such brilliant fashion that it does my heart good to remember
the gallantry of my brave comrades. I might easily have followed up these
repulses by a headlong offensive, but I wns tied down by the commander-
in-chief's restrictions nnd his refusal to send me reinforcements. How anx-
iously I awaited a reply on both subjects!
"Just think what victory meant! A complete victory was in our grasp.
The loss of thousands of lives was not dreadful before such a result.
"The reply of Kuropatkin arrived at 5 In the evening In the shape of
an order to leave a small force In our positions and move up the army to
his support In view of the expected Japanese advance on the center. How
■was It possible for the Japanese to uttack our center when all available
forces were diverted west. It is impossible to describe the impression
produced on me by the order. At first I was afraid to communicate it to my
victorious army, but there was nothing else to do. We retreated during the
night of Jan. 211 with teurB In our eyes and bitterness in our hearts. It was
then 1 decided that my presence at the theater of war was no longer pos-
sible, nnd the next day I handed In my report to the commander-in-chief,
demanding my relief."
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for the purpose of Interesting legisla-
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his visit here was for the purpose of
arranging any of the details looking
to President Roosevelt's visit to the
state. Austin and San Antonio, he said
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♦ ♦ ♦
There seems every likllhood of a
local f.ght being ribbed up over the
Dallas charter, It one Is to believe what
he hears In legislative circles. This
f.ght will hardly extend M-Xhe legisla-
ture Itself, Inasmuch as every effort is
being mnde to harmonise the various
factions before the charter bill gets
into the house for consideration. The
principal bone of contention seems to
be. that Dallas, adopting the tactics
of Austin at the time that the dam
was built, has gone to work with a
view of taking in a grent many corn
fields in and around Dallas, and mak-
ing them* a part of the property pay-
ing asressments of Greater Dallas. To
th.J, some of the worthy and patriotic
cltisens of Dallas art objecting most
strongly, and hence the local fight now
on. It Is explained that All this will
be cleared upon, befoie the bill rench-
es the legislature, and In that event
there will be no fight made on the
passage of the bill, but Just at present
the breeses are not being tempered to
the under dog by any means.
Prohibition Child Labor.
Helena. Jlont. Feb. 17.—Gov. Toole
has signed the bill recently passed by
the legislature prohibiting the em-
ployment of children in mine*.
We hare SOLD MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND of
thesle machines in Texas alone and have not had one
singe complaint. They may be found in almost every
neighborhood in the state. We furnish either Gothic
or Drop-head.
THE NEW MERCURY
Is a strictly high grade
machine, finely built, light
running, easily managed
durable and handsomely
finished. It Is equal in every
particular to the machines
•old through agents at from
£36.00 to 160.00. We do not
offer these machines In con-
nection with the eheap and
roughly built machines
which are being advertised
at almost any price the pur-
chaser Is willing to pay. Bu
we offer those who desire a
really high grade machine
an opportunity to get one for
LESS THAN HALF
what such a machine would
cost If bought from an agen
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TERMS—Cash with order. N o deviation. The low prioe of this
machine is due to the fact that by selling for eash and always
having a stock on band we save the expense of . delays
and keeping accouuts.
SHIPMENTS.—All sisebisss are aarsfslly orated ni •hipped fey
Might sslsss otherwise Is.trsots*.
Address all orders to
SOUTHERN MERCURY, :
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