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DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE^.
For Congress—
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Circuit Judge—
R. E. JEFFERY
For Prosecuting Attorney—
HUGH WILLIAMSON
For Representative—
W. M. SHAVER
For County Judge—
W. D. McLAIN
For Sheriff—
J. F. McCUISTION
For Circuit Clerk—
C. E. SMITH
• For County Cleric—
G. L. ROBINSON
Tor Treasurer—
J. H. CAMP
For Assessor—
W. M. TIMS
For Surveyor—
J. H. AITKENS
For Coroner—
W. H. NOLEN
For School Superintendent—
E. H. BOWMAN
For Justices of Peace—
J. M. BELL
L. B. HARRIS
For Constable—
TERRY GUIN
For Road Overseer—
W. F. HURLEY
of these 56 is $25 a day in ho
tel bills, m/eals and automobile
hire. This makes the average
daily ordinary “living expens
es” of the colony $1,400 per day.
Figuring on this basis media
tion in the Mexican trouble has
cost $39,200. But war for the
same length of time would have
cost far more, not to mention
casualties.
This does not, of course, in
clude the salaries of clerks and
! the various secretaries of the
three mediators, the American
and Mexican delegation. There
is also the inestimable amount
spent in telegraph tolls by the
newspapers; the cost of trans
mitting long code messages be
tween the Prospect House and
Washington; similar messages
received and sent from Mexico
City and the communication
the mediators have with their
own countries. But mediating j
is a great little sport with no :
time tor thought as to expens- j
es. The following is the gener
al scheme of mediation as fol
lowed at Niagara Falls:
At 11 o’clock each morning
Da Gama of Brazil, Naon, of
Argentina and Suarez, of Chili, j
go to their conference room
There is no set schedule for
the holding of conversations
with the Mexican or American J
delegates. Sometimes an en- j
gagement may be made in ad
vance, but not often. After
gathering (in the conference
room and diplomatically discuss
ing the carpet on the floor or
the weather, the Mexicans or
Americans may be invited to ap
pear to ask that they be heard.
If it is the Americans who are
to be heard, the State Depart
ment chauffeur is aroused from
the rear seat of his machine and
he rolls up in front of the Pros
pect House. Justice Lamar,
Frederick W. Lehmann and
their secretary H. Percival
Dodge, followed by Robert F.
Rose, ponderous representative
of the State Department, enter.
The car progresses from the
Prospect House to the Bridge,
MEDIATION COSTLY
AS WELL AS SLOW
What Would Happen to the
Poor, Landless Peon if He Had
To Stay At Niagara.
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United Press Dispatch.
Niagara Falls, Ont., June 17.
—As mediation now swings on
through conversation after con
versation, and conference after
conference, this neck of the
woods is a dull and uninterest
ing spot for Mr- Ordinary Man.
Far back through the ages the
cry of all revolutionists has
been to restore the lands to the
poor peons of Mexico, but if a
poor peon showed up around the
Clifton Hotel where they are
now endeavoring to settle his
affairs, he would probably not
only lose his lands, but his
shirt.
It is pay, pay, pay and the
mediators and delegates to the
mediation conference are pay
ing at a lively rate. When it is
all put down in cold figures the
cost of the conferences here will
be astounding. After the first
flurry when special correspond
ents and near diplomats from
every direction flocked into Ni
agara Falls the colony has now
simmered down until there are
approximately 56, including the
mediators and their suites, the
Americans, Mexicans, and news
paper correspondents. A con
servative estimate of the aver
age cost of “mediating” to eacT
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opportunity knocks once at every man’s door. Are you ij!
ready to seize your opportunity if it came today? Have !]l
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where the envoys, Dodge, Rose
and the chauffeur pay ten cents
each to pass on to Canada. The
car circles the Clifton Hotel
across the river the falls are
roaring and glistening in the
sunlight. Stopping at the door
the mediation delegates alight,
diplomatically and with great
dignity- Judge Lehmann, how
ever, can’t suppress a laugh and
so he laughs. Newspapermen
greet the delegation and learn
nothing. They enter the elevat
or, ascend to the conference
room, the doors are closed and
mediation is on.
The secret sendee guard at
two men, but whenever a con
versation is in progress a pair
of the King’s sleuths pace back
and forth before the door. They
march solemnly and with digni
ty befitting the occasion. Af
ter a time the American dele
gates come down the stairs.
Justice Lamar may or may not
have something to say. He is
extremely careful of every
word he uses. He talks slowly
and with extreme caution.
When he is thorugh the job of
the newspaper men is to decide
what he meant.
Justice Lamar compares the
work of the correspondents
here to fishing in a bath tub.
When there are no develop
ments, he will say: -1
“Now, there really are no fish
in this tub. There is nothing to
say.”
At other times he will de
clare :
“There are fish in the tub this
tin^e all right, but I can’t tell
you what they are.” Interview
ed alone the Justice is very
pleasant. It seems actually
painful to him sometimes when
he cannot answer questions ask
ed him.
When the Mexicans confer
with the mediators they do not
cause as much fuss about the
hotel as the Americans. Hav
ing their rooms on the same
floor as the conference room,
they slip in or out without at
tracting any attention.
“Chautauqua Sale/ Specials for
Wednesday and Thursday.
Laces, .eal linen, 10, 15 and
20c values, just for two days,
per yard-5c.
15c embroideries only Sc in
Chautauqua sale.
Ladies’ 40c union suits, each
. 2Sc
$1.00 and $1.50 Munsing union
suits_ 75c
$1.50 and $2.00 house dresses,
drummers’ samples, Chautauqua
Sale_ 98c
Men’s $1.00 soft shirts only_69c
Look for the big Chautauqua
sign, follow the crowd and trade
at the New Store. We cut the
price
J. D. Carvell & Co.,
64d2t Next I. D. Price’s.
Notice*
At the “Busy Corner” the
City Meat Market will sell 60
pound cans of lard for $5.00.
Come quick, before it is all
gone. W. B. Chastain. 64d6.
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CHAUTAUQUA TICKETS
SELLING FAST.
The Chautauqua Season tick
ets are now selling fast and you
had better buy now. When the
| guarantee is made up and the
:sale is turned over to the Chau
tauqua people, the price of adult
tickets will be raised from $1.50
to $2.00 and children’s tickets
will be $1.50 instead of $1.00
Buy now and save that 50 cents.
Remember the Chautauqua
opens Friday on the government
tract, corner Second and Hazel
You’ll want to go when the time
comes.
Discovered Ran* Disease.
During the eighteenth century Dr.
Perclval Pott of London, who was one
Of the best known physicians in that
period, discovered the disease of the
spine which he called “vertebral ca
ries," or decay of the backbone. The
treatment ultimately prescribed was
plenty of pure food, sunlight, fresh
air and sleeping outdoors all of the
time.
Sizing Him Up.
When you call the average young J
man honest he Is likely to feel a mild
sort of gratification. When you call
him competent his chest begins to
bulge. When you call him a heart
breaker he slaps you on the shoulder
and gives you to understand that ha
considers you a person of remarkable
perception and unerring judgment.
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Lover’s Unique Devotion.
An unusual manner In whiqfe I
lover's devotion wae shown occurred
at Zurich, Switzerland, recently, i
cobbler, whose sweetheart died, •HH
prentlced himself to a stone-cutter la
order to execute a fitting tribute ta
her memory, and after fourteei
months he was able to carve a bean
tlful roes on a marble slab and writs
beneath: “Such was Shaw** After *
had been erected over her grave ha
returned to hie first trade, and see
repairs shoes ae before.
Looking For Trouble
You can look trouble squarely in the eye without
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. have a bank account. It gives you a feeling of eonft-<#
dence and power that means half the battle- Make a
start and once tried, will never be regretted. We wrf- |
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# If you suffer from say of these complaints, try Blade
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2 yean of splendid suoross proves Ms value. Oood for
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Reason for Superiority.
The domestication of animals and
ths utilisation of plants does not go
very far except under a civilised peo
ple. Contrast the age of Peru and
Mexico with that of Egypt. Babylonia
and China: and one reason for old
world superiority in the mastery of
•xature [3 plain
Washing Soiled Greenbacks.
A soiled greenback is restored to
Its original glory by washing and iron
ing at a cost of one-tenth of a cent
We Take the Risk
We know you will be delighted
with the O-Cedar Polish Mop.
We know you will welcome
the relief it brings.
We know you will appreciate
the hard work it saves.
We know you will be pleased
with the way it dusts, cleans and
polishes—all at the same time.
That is why we say:—
Try the O-Cedar Polish Mop for 2
days at our risk. If it is not satisfac
tory, we do not want you to keep it.
The price—$1.50—will be returned
without question if it is not all. and more,
than we claim. You to be the judge.
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tool you- N(k «lrf Bat one of theae
dates HI get throwed down, and I
won’t bounce back. Then I'D know
In all over. When a man get* that
way, he’s old. Old, ^eeT It don't
make any difference how much longer
he lives after that, he don’t ever gat
any older.—“Billy Fortune."
ST. PAUL’S CHURCH.
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I Price’s Restaurant
S Will Be Moved on or about JULY
p to Storeroom formerly occupied by
g dependent printing office and second
ffi door from Star Restaurant, where
j| proprietor solicits your visits and patronage
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