The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 50, December 29, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS MINER.
that paid in iron ore production, and 3 1-2 tinies that paid for
the production of all kinds of stone.
"A bully boy with a glass eye," that's what they say Harry
Havemeyer of the sugar trust is. He seems to be able to do
about what he likes with the sugar stock. "It takes a header
and down it goes, then it bobs up serenely," looking as calm,
quiet and innocent as an oyster in its shell.
There does not seem to be the ghost of a chance for China to
make a stand against the Japanese armies, and that country
must accept such terms as the Japan Government chooses to
dictate. We hope the Japanese Government will be as wise in
the settlement of its war claims as it has shown bravery on the
battlefield.
James Cochran, the pioneer of the Pennsylvania coal trade,
died last week. He said shortly before his death: "I dug coal
in the mine and hauled it out in 12-bushel cartloads by the aid
of a strap around my neck. The sight of a mule in the mine in
those days would have scared us. There was scarcely any
money in circulation then."
We have read a good story about a young man who went late
one night to serenade a Quaker's handsome daughter. After
singing some other songs, he gave "Home, Sweet Home." At
its close the old gentleman raised a chamber window and said,
"Young man, if thee hast a home, and a sweet home as thee
sayest, why don't thee go home?"
The lamp wick does not burn so long as there is oil on it. As
the oxygen which reaches the wick is not sufficient to burn both
the oil and the wick, the oil, being most inflammable, is burned,
leaving the wick merely charred. So if some highly oxidizable
substance, as alcoholic drink, is taken into the system it will be
oxidized first, leaving the proper food elements of the body only
"charred," or incompletely oxidized.
A titled lord,
A maid with cash;
A gay resort,
A double mash;
A nuptial day,
A foreign port;
A broken heart,
A case in court.
—[Kansas City Journal.
They say Washer and August are running a "neck-and-neck
race in clothing; Mitchell, the jeweler, comes in first under the
wire, Connery has "the call" among druggists; the Fort Worth
Brewery easily takes the lead in quality of beer over all that
comes into the state; that Greene & Beaumont and a lot more
chappies are playing policy—life policy—this year on a big
scale; that Furman "underwrites" for good companies, but at
high rates.
There are 119 900,000 old copper pennies somewhere. No-
body knows what has become of them, except once in awhile a
single specimen turns up in change. A few years ago 4,500,000
bronze 2-cent pieces were set afloat. Three millions of these are
still outstanding. Three million 3-cent nickel pieces are scat-
tered over the United States, but it is very rarely that one is
seen. Of 800,000 half-cents, which correspond in value to Eng-
lish farthings, not one has been returned to the Government for
recoinage or is held by the Treasury.
The United States Senate costs annually$i,377,Ó29; the House
of Representatives, $2,790,911. The first session of the Fifty-
second Congress occupied 187 working days. The Senate cost
per day, $7,314; the Senate cost per hour (four hour session),
$1,828; cost per day of each Senator, $86.50; the House cost
per day, $14,924; the House cost per hour (four hour session),
$3,73t; cost per day of each Representative, $83.30; average
cost of each of the 432 laws enacted at session, $9,649. By this
we see that each law costs to enact $9,649, but that is only a
bagatelle. The tariff law alone will cost this country many hun-
dreds of millions, and hand it over to foreigners.
The China Mail says: "In China there is a great scarcity of
coal, and as Japan threatens to place an embargo on the export
trade, and freights for cargoes from Newcastle, N. S. W., have
been raised enormously, it is not outside the bounds of probabil-
ity that the shipping trade will suffer. Were the Australians to
take the advice of some of their leading journals and push for-
ward their coal at reasonable prices, that coal might manage to
be reinstated in the Far East, where it has been driven out by
tbe competition of the Japanese. The foolish coal strikes in
England and Wales have already ruined the chances of Cardiff
coal out here, except for the British navy."
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Editor Texas Miner:
New York, December 15, 1894.
WELL, another week has rolled around with its burden of
joys and sorrows,'smiles and tears—each tick of the clock
marking some birth and some death—a constant coming and go-
ing. But so absorbed are we in the struggle of life that only at
long intervals do we find time to pause and think of the "whence
and whither?" Our local political cauldron has been boiling furi-
ously for an after election period. The Republican professional
politicians have been attacked by the non-professionals until the
former, in self-defense, have had to assert themselves and put in
the claim that the machine is entitled to some consideration,
which is the natural result of an overwhelming victory. The
question of "a division of the spoils" has always been a difficult
one to solve after every victory since time began, and probably
will be until time ends. The Press got the public printing away
from the Tribune. The Tribune attributed this to the influence
of Tom Piatt, the leader, or the boss, of the Republican party in
this state, and forthwith attacked him. If he is on your side, or,
rather, if you are on his side, he is called a leader; if you are
against him, he is called a boss. Piatt gets back at the Tribune
through his friends in the interior of the state and appeals to the
self respect of legislators to assert themselves against public
clamor, and it looks as if the Legislature would be the arena for
a very interesting political fight between the so-called "reform"
and "machine" elements. Locally the "Lexow investigating
committee" is daily unearthing new phases of corruption in the
police department, the latest being the undoubted sale of cap-
taincies in the police department by the commissioners. How
far the money went for greasing the machine, and how far for
individual enaolument, remains to be seen. Probably a percent-
age stuck in the pockets of the handlers, but the greater part un-
doubtedly went for maintaining the enormous expenses of politi-
cal organization, which the reformers have but little idea of. Still,
the leaders and the handlers will have to bear the onus of levying
vast sums of blackmail, and before they get through with it I
fancy will be ready to exclaim: "I swear'twere better to be lowly
born and range with humble livers in content than be pecked up
in a glistering grief and wear a golden sorrow."
In national affairs the principal topics of interest have been
that Congress has been wrestling with the financial problem and
endeavoring to formulate a currency system on the lines suggested
by President Cleveland in his message to Congress. Prominent
bankers and political economists have had hearings before the
house committee on banking and currency, and there is a dispo-
sition to rush through a bill in this short session of a Democratic
Congress which will be signed by the present Democratic Presi-
dent. There are considerable differences of opinion, but it looks
as if they would "get together" and that some kind of a bill would
be passed. If Congress would do the same thing on a bank-
ruptcy bill which would release the honest, industrious traders of
the country from their fetters and encourage them to go ahead
pulling in the traces of industry the country might pardon even
this Congress for the sins which it has committed and let it retire
to an honorable obscurity. The Wilson-Gorman tariff bill might
have been worse. It doesn't suit everybody, but anything is bet-
ter than uncertainty, and nobody expects that all will agree on
"a judicious tariff." It is much the same on the coinage and
currency question. Production and consumption in their broader
aspects have such a bearing on the situation that hardly any one
knows just "where are we at?" But above all the sentiment,
"Give us a rest!" "Let us have peace!" finds an echo in every
heart. The resources of this country are so great—so much
greater than those of any other country—that, give us a fixed and
stable policy to which our citizens can adjust themselves, we are
sure to distance all other nations in the race. We can't ignore
them entirely, because steam and electricity have knitted the peo-
ple of the world so closely together that to a certain extent they
are like the human body—injure one limb and you affect all—but
with a patriotic regard for our own interests and an intelligent re-
gard for the influence of other nations upon those interests we
will progress faster than we will under the sentiment of the West-
ern legislator, "What do we care for Europe?" I know this will
seem somewhat heretical to the readers of The Miner, but never-
theless what you want to know is how it looks to observers from
every point of view.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 50, December 29, 1894, newspaper, December 29, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200497/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.