A circular issued by tho New England
Tobtcco Growers sets it forth
Ulke this:
4TJudcr tho Constitution, 'annexation'
of one or all of these Islands
moans absolute free, trado with them
in loaf tobacco and cigarp. It moaus
that cigars will retail at one or two
cents each and clear Havana cigars at
producing cigars of tho samo.
! I,Ij at tVio antnn f.imp.
" Vlll WHHVi; M nw u.a.w -..-.-.
petitions favoring
are lookod for by nietnbors of
Congress representing non-tobacco
growing districts.
Resources of Oklahoma.
Tho' annual report of Gov. Barnes,
of Oklahoma, is. an impresslvo
of tho presout w.ealth and
was a wilderness
onjjlware ago . Tho assesor'a
retornsfk population of 311,400.
-A-a gain of 53Jpor,eout. In two years.
jL.s the'sV;rctnrn8 are- Incomplete, tho
GovefHorputsthe actual population
atorit&hlrdrof a million. Tho
Is returned at
$8,689,004 in the
year, xuajarea or UKianoma is iony
tbousand.'squaro milo, almost that of
Its cannot bo long until this
fertSletandVjfrowing territory bocouips
a soverelgiato. All that dolays it
now, the quuntlon o
whothor it shall como iu separately or
conjointly as 0110 Btato with
dim Territory.
Bell's
Gertter
'';
ijisc
Harrow
-v-
Is the latest arid best.
Dp hot fail o see' it. '";
For sale only by
"W. W, Reed,
.HARDWARE, "-
Wi- STERLING,. vKBNTUQT,
A Floating Bible and Wliit Cro
of It.
Borne months ago a merchant In
B a war a, Japan, whoce name was Ak-Ibara
Takeji, was v'sit'cd by a Bible
colportor, from whom he hoard something
of the gospel. But the atory
made Jittlo Imprestion upon him, and
bo went on with his buiinoas without
paying any attention to the now religion
about which he had heard. But
it was not all in vain that ho had
heard something of the truth. Rev.
