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Time *m wnen Cancer was considered as incurable as leprosy
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Summer Tourist Tickets to all Be&oit Points
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Lord Wolsely is one of the most
sanguine men in all England about
a speedy termination of the war.
During the recent stay at Battle
Abbey with the Duchess of Cleve-
land the commander in-chief ex-
pressed the confident opinion that
Pretoria will be taken before the
end of May.
A law suit is in progress at Cle-
burne in which the sum of 16 cents
is involved. Two farmers have
for years been disputing over a
boundary line and the land con-
tended for is worth only 16 cents
at the rate of $30 per acre. Tbe
court costs already amount to
$400, and will probably reach $300
ere the case is finally settled.
A Catlettsburg (Ky.) paper
contains the announcement that
the East Ashland Cow Insurance
circle ha.-? called for another as-
sessment, Noah McKenzie’s cow
having died. The cirejg is com-
posed of 25 members, and when
&ny one of them loses a cow an
assessment of $1 each is levied, to
go toward the purchasing of a
new cow.
Andrew Joseph Thompson, of
Santa Rosa, Cal., is one hundred
and thirteen years old ami hopes
to live to be two hundred. He is
active and lively, and ascribes his
good health and youthful appear-
ance to his habit of exposing his
body to the sun for two hours dai-
ly and to his other habit of cheer-
fulness, He never worries about
anything.
m c. Anderson \
Would be pleased to entertain any one in need of
Implements, Wagons, Buggies, Disc or Sulkcy
Plows, Grain Drills. VVe handle the Superior,
known and recommended hy many. All goods ^
sold under guarantee in materiel and make not to >
be excelled. ^
Your Friendship and Trade appreciated.
LOCATED 15 THE
Old Alexander Hotel.
At the expiration of his preseut
term Congressman Catchings, of
Mississippi, will have served con-
tinuously for sixteen years, and
he will then quit public life and
resume the practice of law. This
determination has been reached
because of his desire to prepare
for a rainy day, Mr. Catchings
having earned nothing beyond his
salary in tbe period named.
Senator Pettus, of Alabama, is
a well read man, but often declares
a library consisting of the Bible,
Shakespeare and Burn’s poems
is enough for anyone. In 1849 he
went across the plains to Califor-
nia taking with him the works
named, and thoroughly digested
them all before seging the Pacific
slope. His knowledge of the Bi-
ble and Bible history is intimate
in the extreme.
G. W. LEWIS. )
DEALER IN
Hardware, Stoves, Tinware.
Manufacturer of Tin, Coppor and Sheet Ironware
Patent metali3 flues, roofing, guttering and
all kinds of Job work a specialty.
Congressman Fritzpatrick, of
Kentucky, recently received a let-
ter from a woman in kis&strict
asking his aid in securing a pen-
sion for the writer. She says when
the war broke out her husband
went to the front and earned a
medal, which he sent to her. La-
ter he was killed, though she has
since .been married twice, she
thinks she ought to .have a pen-
sion, because she always wore the
medal in memory of her first
iweetheart.
II Practical Tiner.
Marshall Street
Teach your children that it is
honorable to work for a living.
It always makes us tired to see
people who are as poor as Job’s
turkey turning up their noses at
"laboring people." Such cant
fills the brothels of the land with
fallen women and the jails with
criminals. The army of criminals
ia recruited from the ranks of
those who consider it a diagraoe
to lebor for an honest living; and
it is natural, because be who will
not work, ie too proud to beg,
most steal or starve.—McKinney
Gazette. q
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White Satin ism home product.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Great Britian has ordered Ja-
maican troops to embark for the
British Gold Coast Colony.
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St. Louis capitalists are invest-
ing largely in Kentucky lands, be-
lieved to contain lead and zinc.
Daniel Froham started for
Oberammergan to try to bring the
famous passion Play to this coun-
try.
it is proposed to build a $3,000-
000 international datn above El
Paso, Texas to redeem the Rio
Grande valley.
Over $5,000,000 of Mrs. Hetty
Green’s enormus fortune is in-
vested within 100 feet of New
York’s cit^hall.
A census of the Klondike dis-
trict gives a total population of
8306 of whom 5539 are citizens of
the United States.
London is twelve miles broad
one way and seventeen the other
and every year sees about twenty
miles of new- streets added to it.
In three States in the past few
weeks ten cotton mill companies
organized to erect cotton mills
costing from $15,000 to $500,000.
Don jM. Dickinson. Cleveland’s
old lieutenant made statements
indicating that be was ready to
climb in the democratic band
wagon.
In the Philippines there ars 31,-
382 regulars, of which number
968 are officers, and 32,205 volun-
teers, of which number 1356 are
officers.
The City Council of Maynes-
ville, Ky., received a letter from
Miss Sallie Greenville of St.
Louis, claiming 800 acres of land
in the town.
The South African war has de-
prived many English hospitals of
the service of male doctors, and
the lady medicos are now reaping
their reward.
Queen Victoria has given
orders that St. George’s chapel,
Windsor castle, and the Albert
Memorial chapel are to be lighted
by electricity.
The foreign trade for 1899fas
*hown by the report of the cham-
ber of commerce, showed an ex-
cess of exports over imports of
$465,800,256.
Governor Sayers of Texas re-
ceived from the British Govern-
ment the complaint of a British
subject that his land was being
used for grazing.
There is again a plan under
consideration for establishing a
telegraphic circuit of the earth by
uniting Alaska with Siberia across
the Behring strait.
The Standard Oil magnates re-
ceived a 48 percent dividend for
the past twelve months and ad*
vanced the wages of their work-
men 10 per eent.
The exhibit of Thomas A. Edi-
son at tbe Paris exposition re-
quire? no 1ms than 375 cases.
Three of Mr. Edison’s assistants
will have charge of it.
Rev. C. M. Sheldon, of Topeka
Capital notoriety, says he sees in
Topeka an ideal city, and hooes
that his scheme for social regener-
ation will be realized there.
Richard Yates was nominated
for Governor by the Illinois Rep-
ublican Convention at Peoria.
The Tanner-Haency faction creat-
ed a wild stampede tor him.
Premier Salisbury warns his
countrymen that they cannot de-
pend on the friendship of any
nation. He urges the formation
01 rifle clubs to repel invaders.
Governor Roosevelt’s visit to
Washington will be for the pur-
pose of showing McKinley that
the Rbugh Rider must not be
forced to become his fenning
mate.
The new automatic machine
gun is being tested by the United
States army. It weighs only
twelve pounds, can be carried by
one man, and fires 450 shots a
minute.
At Mount Vernob, Texas, the
subscribers to the proposed oot-
ton mill met and decided that as
there would be considerable trou-
ble in securing machinery they
would drop the mill enterprise.
Insteed, a Rational beak wee or*
phbej, the capital paid ie end
1 he officers elected.
In consequence of being out- Wheeler Steps Dows,
side the Texas school law, Fort At last Gen. Wheeler has step-
Worths’ City Council decided to ped down. He tenders his resig-
take charge of the public sdhools. nation as congressman from Ala-
A citizens Advisory Committe was bama and at the request of the
appointed. President remaius in the army.
At . receot conference of tire be had b«° b? S>M:,*l!,>r
Morrn.n church, George Q Onn- Hcndereon tuat hr, ,e»t wee vw.«t-
non complained that there never ; h-v,h'’ po’ltl:m io the >rmy'
„aS in the history of the church , U h* ‘*k*“ thc old "smor *
snch absence of respect for itean-, ‘.OD8 nwke up hie mind
thonty »s now. ,ud ,hen ^mebody else had to
make it up fhr him. Perhaps the
Abner Knight, formerly of Han- hero worshipers, who wanted him
nible, Mo., and believed for sev-
enteen years to be dead, turns
out to be alive. His wife remar-
ried, but her second husband died
a few years ago.
The British troops in South
Africa out numbered the Boers
five fo one. This superioity in
numbers appears to be a wise pro-
vision to makeup for the inferior-
ity of generalsnip.
A boy at Pana, Illinois found
two sticks of dynamite, which he
thought were Roman candles. He
touched them off and lost his
baud. His mother also was in-
jured by the explosion.
Sixty-three years have passed
since the queen, shortly after her
accession, first took up her resi-
dence at Buckingham palace, a
mansion which was built m 1825
at a cost af over a million,
The Denison cotton mill is the
largest plant in the Southwest
manufacturing cotton, running
22,000 spindles, and when it is in
full operation it will run 50,000
spindles and will be the largest on
the continent.
Electrical medical treatment is
given patients by means of a new
soda, which has batteries and an
induction coil contained in the
lower portion, with head and feet
platS* to be placed in contact
with the patient.
Without regard to party or fac-
tion tbe people of Memphis and
other Southern cities have honor-
ed Admiral Dewey by ovations
such as have rarely ever been ac-
corded to visitors. There wgs no
politics in their welcomes.
The people of the Indian Ter-
ritory are having all sorts of
guesses now, as to what sort of
government they will be living
under next. There are so many
bills now before congress that it
is hard to tell just where the Ter-
ritory “is at."
Emperor William has appoint-
ed Couat Von Walderaee field
marshal general of tbe German
armies. Another great distinction
for Count Von Wahlersee is that
he has a brilliant American lady
for a wife, one who is said to have
nursed his ambition and poktical
interests as carefully as she has
nursed the count himself.
At one of the military posts of
the United States, says Youth’s
Companion, there were recently
two "canteens," where intoxicat-
ing drinks were to be had, and
one branch of the Young Men’s
Christian Association. More room
was needed for the troops, and it
was found necessary to remove
one of tbe three establishments.
It was the Young Men s Christian
Association that "had to J9>.” A
fine bit of irony, in view of the
survival of the fittest.
There were 903 post offices in
1800; today we have 75,000—that
is, in America alone. It took a
letter sixteen days to go from
Philadelphia to Lexington, Ky.;
twenty-two days to Nashville,
Tenn. The cheapest plotter’post-
age was eight cents, and to send a
letter more than a hundred miles
cost a shilling. Three million let-
ters and papers were then sent in
a year; at tbe present time the
post office bandies about 30.000,-
000 pieces ot mail in a single day.
—May Ladies’ Home Journal.
There is bnt little change in tbe
smallpox situation. It was re-
ported yesterday that there was a
case in the southern portion of the
city, bat on investigation this was
found to be a mistake. The onjy
first reported is the one in the ex-
treme northwestern portion of the
city, and all are of a very mild
type. The county has established
e detention camp at tb* old fair
grounds. With proper aere there
, is not thought to be much danger
of a spread of the malady.—Mo-
Khusy Gazette.
A Cross Clerk
to sit in congress aud ride in the
army saddle at the same time,
will now let up on Bailey who
bravely stood for the constitution
against one!of his own political
household. :
The case will go down to history
as a valuable lesson. If the at-
tempt had been made in time of
peace by an;ordinarv army officer
to be a congressman without sur-
rendering his commission, he
woulyl have! been ridiculed and
scoufged int<) retirement aod dis-
grace. It i^ only a thoughtless
popular sympathy that made the
difference with Gen. Wheeler,
and it is good for the country that
the constitution and reason have
prevailed o*er sentiment.—Gal-
veston Tribute.
A Sab Lake in Texas.
About 300 miles southwest of-
Iloust(f£, Ta., in Hidalgo county,
is now claimed to be one of the
most remarkable salt lakes in the
world. Th»« lake, whieh contains
788 acres ofjpure salt, is surround-
ed by a wide fringe of dense thick-
ets. The salt la.three to four feet
deep in a crystal form, andtne
water is a brine of unusual
strength, crystallizing- with great
rapidity. But few people outside
of the State know of the exis-
tence of this lake; in fact, nearly
all Texa.-^ maps omit it, although
it has been known to be a source
: of supply for local consumption
oyer 200 years; wagon trains mov-
ing in the Southwest to and from
Brownsville, during the Civil War
hauled the salt; in fact, it was the
only supply that Texas had to
draw from during that period.
The property on which th s lake
is situated consists of a tract ot
seventy-one leagues of land,
originally known as "Lo Monia
de San Salvador del Tule," and
claimed to have been granted by
the Government of Spain about
the year 1798 to one Juan Jose
Balli.
Is a rawly. Lor the most part the you*g woman behind the
counter is smiling and obliging, though her bark hurts, her
side pains, or her head throb* distractmgly. The wonder is,
not that a clerk is sometime* trntaMe, but that she so rarely
shows irritation, when everv nerre is quivering and she hardly
knows how to Hold her head up.
The cause of this suffering is not far to seek. It grows out
of same derangement of the feminine functions or disease of
the delicate womanly organs I'ntil this deranged or diseased
condition is cured there will be no relief from pain.
The nervous condition, headache and weakness which are
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NEW STOCK OF BUGGIES
•JXJST RECEIVED.
Standard Grades. FiDe line of Buggy Harness to match.
-AN ELEGANT LINE OF-
SUMMER LAP DUSTERS.
Everything iu the Saddle and Harness Hue
—^ At Bottom Prices
•^“Repairing of all kinds Neatly Done.
L. P. WELKER.
The Queen's Visit.
If the slight breach m the wall
of hostility made by tha Queen’s
visit can be kept open, aud a con-
stant and wise egort be made to
widen it, who knows but that tbe
day will soon come when the bar-
riers in tbe way of a good under-
standing will all have been level-
ed to earth? Just a little restraint
on tbe part of the Irish and a good
deal of expansion on the part of
the English may bring about an
entente cordiale which will re-
sult in the strengthening of the
whole British Empire. To an im-
partial observer seated 3,000 miles
aw’ay it would seem to be worth
trying for. The statesmen of
Great Britain, however, sl|^ld
not leave the whole burden upon
the shoulders of Her Majesty.
In the vernacular of today, it is
now "up to them."—Harper’s
Weekly.
NEW GOODS RECEIVED.
%> • • •
One car ‘‘Bakei Perfect" aud Glidden wire. Trices low
for cash. Lai stock wire netting for poultry and hogs
fencing. Lover prices than ever before. Alsc sell tbe
Oliver steel tinning plows, guaranteed to work equal to
any plow made. Stalk cutters. Disc harrows with seed-
er attachment, disc drills. Rotary Dutchmandisc plow*,
Steel harrow-, hvi giI'i shoels, ccmard cotton
Planters. The celebrated Mitchell Wagons. A general
line of Agricultural Implements. Call and see us
Louis Gar ver & Co
S. L. McKinney,
Dealer inFurniture
AND UNDERTAKER.
I have in stock a large and complete line of
Furniture and Undertaker’s Goods, Mattings,
Pillows, Etc. Ir fact everything that is kept in
a first-class furr iture house.
S. L. McKinney.
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General Methodist Cozfereoce.
It is reported that the General
Methodist Conference haa so far
revised its church government as
to extend equal representation to
the laity. Tbe General Confer-
ence has reaffirmed the action of
annual conferences, end the pro-
visional delegates were admitted
without a contest. This action
makes the Methodist Church a
domestic body, abrogating tbe rule
that only ministers are eligible to
seats in the General Conference.
It is stated that tbe ministers were
enthus lastly over the change and
the loss of their power, equaliz-
ing tbe laity in church government
According to the Boeton Her-
ald, they have a wonderful hen
case besides the two that were at d°wn ,n Rhode Island. At least
C. C. McCorkle & Co
Agricultural Implements,
Eagle and Bradley Plows,Planters
and Cultivators. Advance Threshei s^and
Engines, Eagle Wagons, Buggies,Belt-
ing. Pumps. Hoes, Packing, Oils
Van Alstme, Texas.
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they ere telling wonderful tales of
her achievements, among which
may be mentioned that of laying
a dozen eggs e day. Her fame
has spread abroad and her coop
is now being watched by distin-
guished students of the miracu-
lous. Visitors are not permitted,,
however, to see her perfoim.
Guilder’s Hardware,
Corrugated iron, Lime, Cement,
!Paint and Oils, Best material
At The Lowest Market Prices
Gome end see* when yoa went lember.
Fielder & Sheridan,
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