The Times-Democrat from New Orleans, Louisiana • Page 6

BY THE BY I probably did more harm than rood, for it encour- firms the report we have already given as to the aged speculation and brought thousands oi men justice that eight weeks is no means an unusual time for an innocent person to be immured in our jails. Cases are not uncommon in this city of persons being immured for a year before trial, and men charged with no crime, moreover. Mate Contnued rainy weather has again prevented field work into the oil fields of Texas with wild and. visionary schemes, in which a great deal of money was lost. on the sugar plantations, and the planters are feeling discouraged and are becoming more or let pessimistic The development of the Louisiana oil fields.

-BY- In theii views on the situation. The seed cane is uproot rial witnesses who are not so fortunate as to be which has been systematic jet unaccompanied by boom or speculation, promises to be more satis- ins somewhat, and that some loss will ensue in this re- abe to pive bond or to bave influence enough to THE TOOS-EEMCCEAT PUELISHUfQ COMPACT. "Talklng funny experiences, the latest that has ha pp. ncd to me tops all the others in a rather long list of ui ique thhiifs." wild the lawyer as he dipped away at his coffee in a well known resort in St. Charles street.

"Now here is a letter which I have just received from a publishing house I never heard of before, and asking me to sue myself for the unpaid balance of $40 for some sort of collection of tha portraits of the Presidents of the United States. Why, 1 never even heard of the collection before, and don't know anything more about spect now Inevitable. The stubbles are uninjured, and factorr in the end. The discovery of oil at ieau- secure their enlargement are immured as readily as though they were criminals already judicially determined to be guilty. Of the other class it re THE DAILY TIMES-DEMOCRAT mont caused all who knew anything about petroleum to look for it in Southwestern Louisiana, where the character of the land is such as Indicate a good stand, and this is also true of the fall planted cane.

Of course, dry weather may yet retrieve the situation very largely indeed! and permit a R'd planting with no further drawback than a lateness of the plant cane crop, but unfortunately at this writing the indications point to more rain and plenty of it, Has a Larger Circulation it man a man lri the moon. Besides if I had heard of quires only the word of a policeman to secure imprisonment for a long term without any pretens- of giving the accused the trial to which he is clearly entitled. Ttsa Acy Ctter Cy tew.FFr South cl the Fcoavc no staining oil. The oil was I cnnn hr.infrlit in liirht at a number of places, the brourht to light at a number ot places, them I would not have bought them, for there are only ted Ciuo Firer. There is, of course, no way of meeting an ex- most important of which have been Jennings and Not only are we far behind the English system cessive rainfall.

The farmers will have to wait Welsh, in Calcasieu, and Anse-la-Hutte, Lalay- EW ORLEANS, MARCH 1H, 1IMU. ette. A dispatch from welsh in xo-uay limc- until the rains are over and the land is dry again I complained of, but imprisonment in jails in thin and then rush their farm work as much as possi- I country is rriuclu more severe than in England. Democrat gives the latest particulars of the Welsh four pictures of Presidents that I would care the snnp of my fingor about having-Washington's, because he was the nation's first President, Lincoln's and Cleveland's, because they were the greatest, and Roosevelt's, because he is the most erratic, and the most uncertain. But to get back to the story.

The letter I received was addressed to me as attorney-at-law, and was of the ordinary business kind. In form. It simply requested that I institute rr V. 1 r. .1 .1 4 a EUBSCUIBEttS- TEKMS-IX ADVANCE.

are already nine completed wells I oie. ine tosses tnis year. However, win int xiusu cirauci is wurn.ru man field. There ai There SEVEN (7) PAPERS TEU EEK. there, some of which "came in" as gushers but arc edly greatly stimulate the movement for such American convict, unquestionably, but the man ,12 00lnow "pumpers." Two wells were abandoned in action on the part of the Federal and State gov- who is merely immured awaiting trial lives npers." Two wells were abandoned in action on the part of the Federal and htate gov- wno is merely immurea awaiting triai ur DAILY Per aennm uiont Tore months 3 00 suit against myself at once.

this field using my name to represent because of excessive gas pressure, but ernments as will prevent the deforestation of the luxury in that country as compared with the man ster," that is, a dry well which makes no land, giving rise, as naturalists hav frequently Who is awaiting his trial in jail in this country, tever of oil, has been sunk. shown, to an unequal rainfall and alternations of Whatever the police and those who have the deal- One TPPli. itarable to the furrier 25 wie prospective napless defendant. Xow. what do vou not "a duste think of that' Did I sue myself? I thought tht shr.w whatev fcCM'Al-TW PAGES OR MOBE.

1o XfVkdlpri: a in rver i-ODT. I would sue myself accordingto Instructions, and then must ree-artled as hi-rhlv favor- freshets and drouths. The acricultural interests I ing out of criminal justice in tnis countrj may Per snuuui $2 00 I I -WtEKLY Tl ESIjAVS AND FRIDAYS. ble as rood indeed, as has been made known in oi tne country have suffered greatly of late ironi claim tne system is not oniy a tyrannical one, out Ir annum ft 00 nii.nrr.fliioino' section, and it is not to be I tne startling variations of the rainian, ana we i an unnecessary one as wen. mis iic make the suit the basis of an action in damages agaiust the publishers, alleging injury of credit aud so forth.

I thought again I might get judgment against mvself for something I didn't owe, and so I abandoned the Idea of bvuiittauo-s eliould be made by postofliee money order. nrlerel at that four new wells are now under now appreciate the folly of those who destroyed cially, where the mere commitment of a magis regisirrra letter. express money oraer or urm wben remittances are sent. subscribers should note, by re way in the "proven field," where the existence of 1 out forests. The evil can be corrected to a lim-ltrate, if regular, acts as bar to habeas corpus nil iinrleroround has been demonstrated, and that I ited extent now, and this should be done at once, proceedings, the utmost care should be taken to fcrriiig to the printed label cu their papers, whether proper suing.

I simply wrote the concern a polite letter, reminding them of the fact that the gentleman against beyond this field a number of other wells are being If we continue in our present evil ways and de- prevent such tyranny on the part of the State. Kiint some of them seve ral miles aw-av. in the hope stpy what remains of our forests we will nevt This is perhaps the weakest point in our sjsteni creflil Das been giieo. WASHINGTON BUREAC, Kimball Building, No. 1417 street.

K. Room 9. woom tne wanted me to Institute suit hnd assured me that he knew nothing of the account, never heard of the collection of portraits In question, wouldn't take them as that oil will he found, but lacking that certainty have a normal rainfall, and one crop out oi two ot administering criminal justice, ana courts ami gift, and besides, I added that the fellow was not IX PARIS On tie with Americas Express Company, district) attorneys should take steps to improve a will prove a partial or a complete failure. that comes from a field already tested American 4'hamlier of t'ommerre. worth forty cents, and that a judgment against him situation which is gradually growing worse It will be seen from these facts tliat the Welsh IX LONDON file wth American Express Company and Ct.srUm 4lrln jiiiiir No 2 'ocksnur street.

would be a waste of Judicial Ink. How did it happen? I can't Imagine, unless they Intended to write me to ask field is a promising one; and that in connection with the other fields of the Mate, Ixmisiana w.ll Celebration beld in XTew Orlenns vesterdav in I Th ever heard at the Hopkins, was me to su; some other fellow, but this Is a guess as I IX CHICAGO The Times Democrat will found en sale at the I'almer House. Bet Russell, Auditorium Hotel Auditorium Annex and C. IX ASHINGTON Arllnirton Hotel, Wlllard'i Hotel, soon be able to boast of a large output of oil. nf th nnniv- of St.

PatrieVs birthdar the tn rnt ddress Vr- Edwln hare not heard from them yet." This has been accomplished without the dramatic rpflr0tpd no -rflit eitiens of A' Aldernln the nniversary exercises of the Johns --a. R.mnt o.n. no "eOit upon Am citiM HopUM fnlverslty, says a Baltimore dispatch to the Metropolitan Hotel. Ehbitt IX NEW YORK At the Astor House. Hotel Marl- Out of Memphis comes the following with reference to recent outburst in one of the papers at Vleksburg.

whleh "'t- i Irish descent in this rommunttv. it was a uar i I i i boronrh. Hotel Waldnrf Rrentano Imperial Hotel. i i a a -J I I uaMnnr v. jttui vi eries, dut tne resun is equanj MiiMduui, tne shamrock and the ham.

and of much that i of rve.iHenr Remen Or Airterm.n IN ST. Cons Thilip Boeder. E. T. Jett, Southern Ho-j excoriated the river reporters of the Bluff City: "Xow.

encouraging. Louisiana, wunru tiiuri, associated with these emblems of the Emerald brief speech at the banquet that captured the city. I am at present 'river reporter' for the News, though I mnst confess that I am a layman. I rise to protest aralnst ago to be a non-mineral state, promises to rank Eanquets given at night by the various Irish I nd he was then made an LL.D. This later address has high in its mineral products in the next census, socities wer and'testified eloouent- confirmed the good opinion and firmly fixed him In the the slander and contumely against my confreres on the let, fsnter Hotel.

IX CINC'INNATl-J. II. Hawley's. IX CLEVELAND J. S.

I'ushaw. IX KAN KKA.xriSCO ralac HoteL IX CITY OF MEXICO-F. P. Hoecke. IN DKXVER-Tbe Hamilton Kendrlck Stationery the Lomhrn Jackson Book and Stationery Company.

rx DETROIT Wolverine Nws Company. IX CHATTAXCK" GA Bend Hoow. especially in its output of oil. lv that rhM.n TinH in Tonisiar, in MtlmstloB of Baltlmoreans. It was a powerfrl and scholarly protest against sectionalism a presentation of ttio frrenf IntrfAsf tha Slrnt)i hai In niit1nnt affalisi flllri all other States of the Union are the stuff of Commercial Appeal and the Scimitar and myself that you clipped from some Vleksburg paper and commented on In a more or less humorous fashion the other day.

The burden of the Invective against us was. as you re TL 1 I ITOXAX'S SUFFRAGE AND TBI SOUTH which good citizens are made a lie erinrith nntlon" need of the Southern unii-it and resmrces. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the president of heard were admirable. Their tone in every case He pointed to this section with Its pure strain of Anglo- IV ATLANTA Kimball House, H.

Silverman Company, Arason Hotel ASHEYILLE H. T. Rogers, The French Broad the National Woman's Suffragist Society, evidently was sweet and hopeful, proving conclusively that Karon blood, lt love of home and fellow man, as the thinks that the cause advocated by her and her I though their native land has suffered yet the suf-1 future hope of the United States. Dr. Aldermaa is already member, the statements made up this way that the St.

Francis basin is open. Your Vleksburg intelligence leads to the belief that the St. Francis basin Is clused tlghter'n Dick's hat band. As a matter of cold, hard fact, the St. Francis basin Is wide open to the extent of seventeen miles of unprotected river front, from Cat I'reos.

i. K. IN rORT LIMOX. COSTA RTCA At Wood's Bookstore. a national figure a man who measures up with Hal ley of associates is winning popularity throughout the ferers have kept their spirits calm and unruffled Tale, Xlcholas Murray Butler, Woodrow Wilson.

Dr. United States. 'In Maine." savs Mrs. Catt. "there through it all.

is sound reason wny an iov LUTT OF DEMOCRATS. are 360.000 Grangers. In their last convention, "rs of Ireland should rejoice and be exceeding Harper, and that coterie of young university presidents who are lead'ng the thought of the nation. Dr. AMerman In his speech at the Jackson Day banquet given Y.tA Portland, thev indorsed woman's suffrage.

I glad The dawn of her redemption is drawing loves Xorth Carolina with a yearning affection fiat ex by the IrtKjuois Club of Chicago last Monday I Throughout New England the Grangers are strong near." The little leaven of democracy that is rught, the Hon. David A. De Armond ol Missouri I numerically as well as politically. They recog-1 steadily leavening the life of the worm win sureiy t-et forth "clearly and completely the-dnty at this I nize(i the justice of our contentions long ago. I and swiftly give to Ireland the peace, progress and tends even to the very soil that bore him.

"I do not like to pass through the old State," he said to me. "unless I can stop there awhile. When I have to rush through on the train, I often pull down the shades of 'he car window to keep from looking at the land that draws me so. They are the best people In the world, the best hour 4f ill persons who profess, 'and Thev are with us now more forcefully than ever prosperity for which her people yearn and which tlves Democrats. I before.

True enourh we were defeated in New I they should unquestionably enjoy. The thought In the course of his admirable address he said: I a few days airo: but our vote in that I that at length the dreams of Ireland's patriot. In the world. poets and priests are coming true was brought home to every one who celebrated yesterday the little State was strong enough to show that we are a factor there. Then, again, we are gaining "Let os like sensible men and Democrats address ourselves to the Issues Bow up and coming up for consideration; let those who agree upon them work in peace and anniversary of St.

Fatrick birthday. the support of labor organizations right straight. with the utmost seal and energy, to the end that-we may Island south the place where the levee building of the St. Francis Board ended last year. For this very en.

elusive reason the St. Francis basin Is wide open. For further particulars I beg to refer you to Harry X. Phart of this city, chief engineer of the St. Francis Levee Board.

As to the genial comments yon made on the clippingparticularly as to the effect as food, would have on the fish, why, I plead guilty to the soft Impeachment. Trusting that you will see fit to get back at the Vleksburg river authority for its blatant ignorance in this matter, I beg to etc. If Harry Pharr says that gap is seventeen miles wide (the feller wu the durn'dest best marble player that ever thumbed a taw In southeastern Arkansas! if he says so, (bet you he can knock the middle row with his eyes ahet) If he says that basin Is open (and when It came to cetchin' a ball, or battln' it, he could mn faster and hit hnrder'n any feller'n 'at neck o' the woodst If Harry Tharr Is behind the river reporters at Memphis they are all right, and they needn't be alarmed over criticisms at Vb-ksburg, or elsewhere, for that cnrly-headed fellow wouldn't any more fudge on a river situation that he would at a game o' marbles and there isn't any record of his fudgln' at marbles. King Edward has been restricted by his physicians to five cigars a day. He has been an Inveterate smoker almost since his boyhood.

Some thirty years ago he was dining with the late Lord Derby, who regarded the nse ahead. Xot a great many weeks since the organi win. Democracy most have departed from the man- PA If A MA CA NA THE A TY FA SSED. zations of Montana, in central body, indorsed us. Indeed It nevrr could have been In the 'man who as a Deiuot-rat ran not cow prepare to do his best In the Had it not been for the tfght between Senator The Senate yesterday passed the Panama Canal of tobacco as a vulgar and unpleasant habit.

After dinner the Prince suggested a cigar, whereupon bis lordship party "harness, in the great campaign so soon to open, Clark, Mr. Heinz and the Republicans we would treaty by the overwhelming majority of 73 to dryly expressed regret that his bouse did not contain The trust question is big In the public mind, and have had suffrage granted us a year ago. Eut we This result has tt nf time been in doubt. The smoking room, adding that he could only suggest the can afford to wait. are not revolutionary.

whole country demanded the adoption of the stables as a suitable place for burning tobacco. Much to his surprise, the Prince adjourned to the region Indicated Having said this, Mrs. Catt added these signiS- treaty: and the opposition was confined almost there it will probably be bipger yet when the lines are dran and the next battle is fought for the Presidency the control of the lower house of Congress. The Republican prty has not uealt honestly with the trust cant words: and enjoyed his postprandial cigar. exclusively to Senator Morgan, who, after the long 'In time we shall have so many advocates that we fight he had made for the Nicaragua Canal, sur i it can not deal honestly with Jt, for, Jt Is under trust control.

It has refused to do anything that- would Certain Western papers are acknowledging the receipt sweep the West then the Middle West, the East rendered most unwillingly to the rival route. Senator Morgan, in consequence of the deadlock In of a communication from the Smiths Publishing Com ind, lastly, the i-roniifee reasonable relief from trust exactions and tyranny pany of Detroit, publishers of "The Smiths," a monthly The Iemorrati: party must grapple wlth the trnsts. Lastly, the South" is Why "lastly the Senate caused by the Statehood and other magazine for people named Smith. must ttreac their hold niton honest men and their stifling the Here is Mrs. Catt's answer: bills, was enabled to prevent the passage of the of honest business; tuuet restore to labor the fruits of Us "There are prejudices here (In the South) that are treaty at the regular session; but when the extra Some Idea of the terrible sacrifice of bird life to mil and to Individual enterprise the rewards of Its bont arhievenintR.

Who that has Democratic blood Iinery Is afforded by the London auctions regularly held difficult to overcome, in the first place most or the fcouth- session met he saw how hopeless was the task of era women believe that to go to the polls would detract of th bill with the small for the feather trade. Last year there were six, a la bs veiaw or Democratic principles In his soul can hall from their feminine dignity. Then again, they have beeu J5 nA I which 1608 packages of "osprey" feathers were ca-alogued vt hesitate when the party summons him to this contest? made to believe that if equal suffrage were granted, 11 norm Hnnilntln wnnlit follow Inerltahlr because the I Ccptea the inevitable. "Associated with the trust Issue is the old but ever living tariff question. Why should the tariff continue to A package Is of variable size, probably averaging thirty ounces, making a total of at least 48,240 ounces.

Four birds are required to famish one ounce of pbimes, so necroes predominate In the Southern States. It seems The treaty with Colombia has been accepted by "The mathematical side of the recent display in dress and Jewels of the Czarina at the latest ball In the Winter Palace, according to advices from St. Petersburg, Is not without Interest." said a thoughtful young woman. "Did jou stop io think ot the possibilities bound up In the value of the Czarina's dress and jewels on that occasion? According to the reports sent out, and I do not doubt them at all. her outfit on the occasion in question, was valued at f.1,ux.mm.

Think of it! 'She wore a white velvet dress," according to the message from St. Petersburg, "with a train four yards long, embroidered with gold flowers, in the center of each of which was a diamond of nnusual lustre. And there was a snow-white bird, with wings outstretched and studded with diamonds, and the bird's eyes were rubies, and Its beak was of coral. But I was thinking of the aggregate cost of the evening's display. It was very pretty, no doubt, and no doubt the correspondent was right In saying hers was the to me that the South has safeguards sufficient to prevent more than the requisite two-thirds of the Senate -reMtL and shelter no many truts? Many Republicans concede that there is urgent, uerd for a revision of the that these sales represent the slaughter of 128,640 birds.

Most of these birds came from India, where a recent gov and will be signed by the President at once. The any six but they must depend upon the Itemocratic party more rapidly the canal is pushed the better satis Mrs. Catt is correct in thinking a vast major for it, for the Ixwsea of their own party will' have none fied the American people will be. We have been is ernment edict looks to diminishing the killing of the farmers" friends. The decrease of this supply.

It fashion remains bloodthirsty, will mean an accelerated demand of will 'stand Xo honest industry, no honest ity of Southern women believe that to to the polls would detract from their wo long time arranging, this matter, so many com ten, need fear rou the revision. None hut -those whose plications have arisen and so many obstacles have trom other sources. Florida especially suffers from that ways are nveanlj selfish and whose- purposes are on manly dignity. Southern women cherish tha imirlOTtc heed oppos it. belief as an abiding conviction, and we hope been placed in the way of progress; and at times pest Jf pests, tne nunter wno kius oiras tor tneir piumage.

'Who that loves the principles of the Declaration" of they will always so cherish it. won-1 it has looked as though we would never get a canal der what are the "safeguards" that would protect I across the isthmus. But popular sentiment has independence, the guarantees of the -Constitution, the SILHOUETTES. supernatural beauty of a heroine from some old Saga or teachings of the fathers of the Democratic party, can be content with the policy or the lac of policy of the Re Norse tale. How many calico, or cottonade dresses, or the South from the evils of woman's suffrage, ic-1 swept away obstacles and all the preliminaries gingham aprons do you suppose f.l.OOO.ono would buy for THE MAXDOLnr.

publican r-arty In the colonial cmpiio enterprise? Every I companied as they would be by a new and perplex- have at last been completed. We trust that there Iemocrat who such from principle must abhor the I ing phase of the negro problem? Does not expe-I will be no further delays, and that no time win the poor peasant woman of that great country? How many women of the middle class do you suppose such an enormous sum would clothe In that, or this, or In debasement our proui citizenship sure to result from I rience teach that the South should deprecate any I be wasted, but the actual work of construction pouring Into a great stream of Inferior races, "and Its movement which would enlarge the vicious and will begin at once. The whole country is inter- any other country? That was an enormous sum of money her outfit represented on that one evening, and while she ignorant negro vote? Has not the South already I ested, and no American city more so than New been required to suffer sufficient agony by reason Orleans, which hopes to be the port through which sure debasement from pursuing the course of the empire in Imposing upon the name inferior beings alien rule, by the power American arms, aad at the-huge of the African element in the popular electorate? all supplies will be shipped from the United I cost fb the American people. was no doubt a picture of loveliness, and while I do not mean to be the least bit offensive In these reflections, one can not be uumindfol of the contrast when one extreme stands out in such gorgeous and bewildering consplculty." It may be said that the Woman's Suffragist States to the isthmus, and to finally secure a large "And what manner of Democrat is he who would not Society does not sympathize with the effort to I share of the trade passing through the canal. Join bis fellows in a determined effort to stop the ex travagance and waste and corruption inseparable from 1 place the negro on a plane of equality with the FCBLIC OPISIOS.

ceutiDuM Bepubllcan supremacy? Caucasian. Unfortunately, the association's "Time and events will point ot-Ibe man for. tis Jit 1 A mmhrhth top South in believe PAPER FROM YELLOW PINE. We publish elsewhere an account of the recent Among the labor measures that a Republican majority Be assured the man of the hour will he-found; that the association's view on this subject is wise. manufacture of paper from pine shavings at til' nvaewhlle let us strive ro heal sores," not, fo tear Mrs.

Catt admits that negro women are members has shelved in the Senate are the antl-injunctlon bills, the eight-hour bill, the railroad appliance measure and the Immigration bill. It Is very well known who are the opponents of thee salutary measures. They are great com lien old wour.ds. Let us Invite recruits to Join the parly. Orange, which opens up a splendid opportunity for the South.

When the destruction of the of the association of which she is president. How and not do anything in folly or bitterness to drive thein are' these negroes received by the woman's suf- i mm it. i.ei us rauy waere tne party rag nies. Let us spruce forests of New England foretold the decay act charity rather than preach too ninch about It. Let I fra gist leaders in the United States? Are they of paper making in that section, the manufac bines, the shipping, steel and other trusts, who arc deadly foes of any measure that is designed to hel worklngmen.

They fear most the passage of the anti-In not welcomed into absolute political and socml tis recognlxe human nature and re-pect instead of quarrel irg with it. Let us are well the lessons of the past. turers cast eyes in all directions to find something that would take its place and would equality with the whites? Did not Mrs. Susan .1. junction measure, which would curb the power of Federal Judges to issue sweeping Injunctions that deprive laboring Anthony, the most prominent living advocate of that we.

may meet well the duties and responsibllitls of the present and the future. Let him who did much supply the wood pulp they need. The South was men of every right which the Constitution has conferred woman's suffrage, recently assail the South for its attitude toward the negro, and did she not upon them. Denver News, Iem. searched as promising the best materials; and nearly all the woods and vegetable fibres produced here were tested.

Among the materials thus used before for the party and Its principles strive to do more In the future, and let him who did Dothlng for his party's a use In the days of dissension and division, or who then Whence fare you, with yoor mandolin? Dzoom dxoom We're strangers from the Land Lyn, and my mandolin Dzoom dzoom-- We seek the lady Lellalle: Dzoom dzoom The whitest of all women she In all the Land o' Lyn. She loved my mandolin and me, But most she loved my mandolin. Dzoom dzoom Xo man, she vowed, could handle In The Land o' Lyn or anywhere Like Bandolln the mandolin. Dzoom dzoom (My name Is Randolln). And with each air I played her fair She swore that she was mine fore'er.

Dzoom dzoom Then came my sickness, when I lay All tuneless down for oft a day, And life went like a candle In A gust of wind with RandiMn, And when I rose, away, away Was Lellalie from Land o' Lyn: There stirred great pln and scandal In The people's hearts, and bitter say. But I took my mandolin Dzoom dzoom I could not stay. I seek the Lady Lellalle Dzoom dzoom She'll come, she'll surely come to me. And to the Land o' Lyn, If she but hear my mandolin. Dzoom dzoom For still she loves my mandolin.

Since not a man can handle In The Land o' Lyn. or anywhere A mandolin like Randolin And then she shall be mine for'er Dzoom dzoom 1 support the President in his effort to force negro The derangement of the currency system and extrav Federal officers upon unwilling Southern commu did aught against his party's battle-scarred millions. pare no honorable effort now or In the future for his nities, and was not the letter in which she declared these views read at a meeting of negroes were bagasse or the refuse of cane, which showed itself admirably adapted to paper making; rice straw and pine shavings and refuse Experimentr in Mississippi and Florida with yellow pine proved l-arty's complete triumph." agance in public administration that amounts to almost tobbery are not the only evils arising from the large accumulation of levenue In the United States Treasury. A surplus tends to centralization and an unnatural and undesirable strength of the Federal government. It leads to the creation of a great many unnecessary offices and This is well said; and what is even better it at New York, called for the.

specific purpose ot refects the views of all Democrats in the United denouncing the Southern people? months ago that a good quality of paper could be made from it. The Orange mill has demon States whether they be adherents of Mr. Brvan's These are not agreeable facts, but they are or members of the estranged wing of the Demo-1 nevertheless facts, and it 'is just as well thtt strated this even more clearly. A fine quality of I the creation of many unnecessary buildings and the cultivation of the false Idea that the great government of this country Is at Washington and that the States are mere provincial establishments. Cincinnati Enquirer, Dem.

cratic party. What Democrats need to do now is women of Caucasian blood in the South should wrapping paper was turned out there, and even to remember that "every difference in opinion is I recognize and reckon with them. Little advan- newspaper, the Orange papers being printed on not necessarily a difference in principle." Views I tao-e is to be trained bv blindinc one's eves to the Speaking of rotten borough representation In Congress, i material made from pine shavings. So successful I iemoerats may vary respecting party policy, 1 situation. The National woman Suffragist As- has the experiment proved that the hope is held here into this speech of Mr.

De Armond's i sociation is composed, for the most part, of esti out that all the pine waste from the Southern what's the matter with Delaware? With a measly 185.0O0 Inhabitants so corrupt that even "Gas" Addlcks owns and uses them like cattle. It sends to Washington two Senators to do his bidding. Addlcks' great strength, outside of his money, was the knowledge that bis opponents had et forth a satisfactory platform for the Demo cratic party. lumber mills can ls used in the manufacture of paper. This is absolute refuse now which the mable women, but it represents an idea that is not likely to help the South.

For this reason Southern women should be exceedingly careful in lending it their sympathy and support. The duty of Democrats in the next presidential mills are troubled to get rid of and which they usually burn. If it can be used in the manufac ture of an article so valuable and profitable is election is. as Mr. De Armnd says, to Vote down the trusts: Vote down the prohibitive tariff; Vnte down imperialism; Vote dnwn governmental corrtiption- too much "principle" to atlmit of the coalition of minoity Republicans and Democrats to effect a decent election.

New Mexico has a larger population than Delaware, iiiil It certainly would never fall under more Ignoinlnous boss-ism than Delaware now tolerates. Delaware ought to be annexed to Pennsylvania. Quay and Addicks would be a team for you. Portland Oregonian, Rep. pajer it will be just so much added to the wealth CROPS DAMAGED BY THE RAINS.

An "Old Cotton Planter" in The Times-Demo of this section. As for the pine, it is practically crat Monday expressed surprise "not to have seen inexhaustible. The shavings can be obtained at And vote them all down by voting down tbe v. i nunc miiii-T- bhj v. uk- uiiroiin 1.s.1.tri! of fi a ton; and we may hope to see a paper republican party a rarty that is "held ALL.

SORTS. regards conditions existing in the country, tor alongside of every sawmill, conv converting its Folllcales. Folly issues a folio, Wisdom a Tom Thumb edition. by the cohesive forces of public plunder." waste into valuable products. know there is not a man or firm in your city en-irajred in business but has felt the withering The stomach of the man who shies at the dead fly effects of these continued and terrible hard rains.

OIL FIELDS OF LOUISIANA. ICss has been heard of the oil fields of the In bis coffee Is not In the least affected by the newspaper which hae made farming impossible, and travel CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ENGLAND. The London Times and other English news- report of a thousand "dead and wounded. southwest iice the seat of production has been I hazardous, except by rail, and even this manner largely transferred from Texas to Louisiana of geltinsr about is better attended with an acci- Pap?" are drawing attention to what they call; The up-to-date highwayman, armed with Ms dynamite revolver had forced the Finance King of a 1 the world a blot in our administration of justice." Thev and fcince most of the new wells "brought in" have I dent insurance policy than without. Just think to surrender his whole estate.

"Yon have taken every of it, not three consecutive days of sunshine since leen in the latter t-tate. When gusher after gusher was announced from lleaumont the whole declaim against the large number of persons detained in prison waiting their trials for many weeks or even months. These complaints, while thing I possessed," he complained, "except my reputation." the 17th day of November. Not a furrow run for "I would not lane inai, repneu me ngnteoug rootier, as country grew excited, and the effect of these dis corn, while usually- at this date the corn is planted he drew himself up haughtily, "for all I have Just taken. coveries were discussed at length far and wide and cotton land, too, furrowed.

The ground is so thoroughly saturated with water, that plowing is For the last time do I warn you! Do not beard the impossible." fine lady In her boudoir. nd it was pointed out how they would affect manufactures and industries of all kinds. The excitement has somewhat subsided, and the Texas oil wells have disappointed some of the more enthu The "Old Cotton rianter" is mistaken. The A fig for your friendship: Nay, hold; I can eat the Once a frisky young maiden named Mame Attempted the shy skee to tame; With many wide swerves. The skees showed their curves.

And Mame, In the spill, did the same. i Cornell Widow. If you want to have home-made bread, you must wed a home-bred maiJ. Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. "I am told that her fiance Is wealthy quite one of the 'landed gentry' in fact "Yes: It was her mother who 'landed' him." Brooklyn Life.

Ethel "How you do talk! How can you tell a turkey's age by the teeth? Turkeys don't have teeth. "No; but I have." Milwaukee Sentinel. Mrs. Listen. George the baby is saying 'Oo-goo-Ja oo-go:" What does it remind you of? Mr.

H'm: Reminds me of a brakeinan calling out stations. The Only Thing Wanted: Mrs. Noorlch "Isn't It grand to ride In your own carriage?" Mr. Noorlch "Yes, but I'd enjoy It more if I could stand on the sidewalk and see myself rid" by." Brooklyn Life. It All Ipeiid-: "After all," remarked the old bachelor, "there is no place like home." "Right you are," rejoined the bald-headed man who had loved and won.

"and there are times when I am glad of It." Cincinnati Enquirer. Not So Very High: "I have been told," said the n-w patient, "that you are the highest authority on appen. dicitls." "Oh! I don't know." replied the eminent surgeon. "I only charge 10a per operation," Catholic Standard and Times, Times-Dimocrat has already twice called attention to the injury done to agricultural conditions fig. siastic persons because they have not caused resolution in manufactures.

The good work of and prospects by "the wettest spring on record." I beg of you, praise me In the unpeoplel woods, for in new wells continues as actively This injury is not confined to the alluvial lands of among men will I lose caste for your praising. well founded, will read strangely in sections of this country, where the situation as it exists in England would be considered almost ideal. The London Times gives these figures: Out of a total of M2S prisoners detained In prison In default of bail. 1154 were kept eight weeks or more before trial. 355 for twelve weeks or more, and 72 for sixteen weeks or more.

Of those kept In prison for eight weeks or more, were in the end acquitted: of those imprisoned for twelve weeks or more, 48 were acquitted; of those confined for more than sixteen weeks, 12 were acquitted. In this country, as in England, no compensation is given to an innocent person who has been confined before he is put on his trial and sometimes ruined by the proceedings. We are informed that in England the period spent in jail before trial "proves to be most irksome," and we its ever, but mainlv on Louisiana territory. the Mississippi. Our correspondent writes from That is We hear, however, very little about it save tne rim ot r.ast reiiciana, wnere tne situation Woman, my dear fellow, is man's mother, her gravest error.

as bad as in the river bottoms. As The Times- in the local papers, and. although as im virtant in most respects as the wells opened near I Iemocrat has shown, practically the same condi- There could not be a helmet of success without the lieanmont. the Louisiana ones have received far I tions of excessive rains and a supersaturated soil white plume of self-confidence. The helmet does not iess attention.

This was perhaps to be expected. I prevail throughout Louisiana and Mississippi and require, however, a regular dusting-brush ff conceit. Uxciteuient and enthusiasm seldom last long in I the greater portions of Texas and Arkansas, and Look ont thnt there be not four steps to glory, while This country, and having worn themselves out over unless the rains "let up" we will have a small corn the earlier news from Beaumont, it has been im-J crop and all other staples greatly delayed, with there be only three to death. nosslhle to revive them. Nor is it necessary.

The I 1 he dangers incidental to late crops. jean well believe this to be true. It is not in O. Life, you Shylockl Will you even charge me terest on the small sum of hope you've lent me? over the discovery tf oil at Beaumont Eelative to cane, the Louisiana rianter con-1 to the credit of our administration of criminal.