Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 33, Ed. 1, Wednesday, January 12, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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BTItL TIIKUK IS MONEY IK IT
Carl Vollcn sold 350 of Salzers Cab
bagc Labor seed rent and all did not
cost him 50 profit 300 You can beat
that and make lots of money on Early
nadlshes Peas Lettuce Mushrooms
Onions Sweet Corn Tomatoes Pota-
toes etc Salzer warrants his seeds the
earliest In the world Potatoes only
150 per barrel Millions of Raspber-
ries Cherries Apples and small fruits
Catalogue tells all about them
honil this Notice with 14c Htumps to
John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse
Wis and get free their big Plant and
Seed Catalogue nnd 10 packages vege-
table and ilovter seeds novelties worth
table and flower novelties worth 100
wnl
Let us hope that the Spaniards will
not get up a war with Hannls Taylor
too
Star Tolmcco Is the lending brand of
the world because it is the best
How few men are of auy actual use
to the world I
Men or women 10 00dally New plan No
anniplcs Inepeilenml BiurnoJ Particulars
flea 11 C llorlui Co Iaxtonlllk Umalia Neb
Ail old fiRhlonoil womans Idea Is
ithat a dinner Unt good unites the
soup 1s hot enoujrli to burn your tongue
Hewnrfl of Ointments for Intarrh That
Contain Mercury
RS mercury w 111 surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
wliolo system when enterlne It through
the mucous surfaces Such articles
should neer be used except on prescrip-
tions fiom reputable physicians as the
damage they will do la tenfold to the
Kood > ou can possibly derive from them
Halls Catarrh Cure manufactured by
p J Cheney Co Tol do O contains
no mercury and is taken Internally act-
ing directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces or tho system In buying Halls
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine
It Is taken Internally and made In To-
ledo Ohio by V J Cheney Co Tes-
timonials free Sold by Druggists prlca
75c per bottle
Halls Family Pills are the best
Burnt cork for women minstrels In
behalf of charity having been forbid-
den by Bishop Potter under the aus-
pices of his church one reoalls the
remark of Henry Ward Beecher that
the devil has no right to all the best
tunes A minstrel show of that kind
has a deal of fun as well as charity In
It and has the church no right to fun
either7 The proprieties and the dig-
nities spoil a good deal of enjoyment
though they have their rights too
ASTHMA can be quickly cured toy Dr Tarts
Asthmalene All sufferers from this dlstresslng
complaiut should write to Ur Tart Bros i Elm St
Kocheeter NY for a sample bottle Rent absolutely
free on receipt of nameand address They e > re reliable
Some uwn smoke clguns as short as
they can others as long
3Lr Wlnloiva soothing fljrrup
For children tuettilnff softens the cumsreduces Inflsm
etlon alley pain euros wind colic S3 cents a bottle
When a man starts for the devil his
wife nsaldla by applying for a divorce
Kducnl Vour Jloivels With Cuscarets
Candy Cathartic cure constipation forever
10O25O IfO CV fall druggials rerand money
livery church should manage to con-
vert a ncwupaper reporter
AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS
Wo ore asserting In tho courts our rlsht to the
exclusive use ot tho word CASTOKIA nna
IlTCHKnSCASTOniA asourTraileMark
I Dr Samuel Pitcher ot Hyaunls Maisachu
setts was tho orlulnatorot PITCIimtS CAS
TOHIA ttafl same that has borno and does now
bear the facslmllo slgnaturo o CHAS H
FLUTCIinn on every Wrapper This Is the
original PITCHER S CASTpttlA which lias
been used In tho homes of tho mothets of
America for over thirty years Look carefully
at the wr ippor nnd see that it Is the kind you
have alnajs boudht and has the signature of
CHAS II rLETCHCK on tho Wrapper No
one has authority from mo to uso my name
except Tho Centaur Company of which Chas
II Fletcher is President
March 8 1807 SAMUEL PITCHER M D
A writer who has been entertained
by the sultan says his majesty Is quiet
and very much of a gentleman He has
a velvet voice and Is evidently a man
of conscience and culture Ho cannot
help the assassination which has oc-
curred pro and con between his sub-
jects of different religious creeds but
ho Is sorry for It Perhaps Byron de-
scribed that person better as mild a
mannered man as ever scuttled ship
or cut a throat
llestnutlve storms Alonjr the Coast
Iteports of maritime dlsnatcin oionj tho
coast come in thick and last Peoplo who
go down to the sea In ships should besr in
mind ono thing In pntttculur namely that It
is hlkhty desliabtt to take along supply of
Hosletlern Stomach Hitters as a remedy for
sea sickness Nausea drspcpala biliousness
coiiBtlpallon malailn nervousness ant kid-
ney tumble all succumbs to its bcnellccnt and
Bpeedy action
The unpleasant Incidents and acci-
dents of the recent Indoor bicycle race
In New York degrade a sport and add
nothing to our knowledge of physical
strength nor does such an exhibition
In any way encourage a wholesome
development of an outdoor sport which
Is doing so much to Improve the health
and raise the vitality of tho American
neoplo
Ilrnuty is lllood Deep
Clean blood means a clean skin No beauty
without it CascaretB Candy Cathartic cleans
your blood and keeps It clean by stirring up
the lazy liter and driving all Impurities from
the body llegln today to banish pimples
bolls blotches blackheads and that sickly
bilious complolon by taking Cascaiets
beauty for ten cents All druggists satisfac-
tion guaianleed 10c 25o 80c
Thero Is no feeling In shaking hands
with a school girl
Dont Tobseeo Spit and Smoke Tear IJfs tway
To quit tobacco easily and forever ba mag
oetle full of life nerre and vigor take NeTo
Bao the wonderworker that makes weak men
strong All druggists C0o or Si Cure guaran-
teed Dooklet and sample free Address
Sterling Itemed Co Chicago or New York
Uneasy lies the face that wears a
frown
SAIZrIfS SIX WEEKS rOTATO
This Is tho greatest potato In the
world for Texas and the South far su-
perior to B11S3 Triumph Sond 6c post-
age to John A Salzer Seed Co La-
Crosse Wis for big catalogue of po-
tatoes vegetables and farm seeds and
sample of 14Day Radian wn
It must be mice to have nothing to
do trill day and have an agreeable per-
son to do It with
THAT TERROR of MOTHERS
How it was overcome by
Nova Scotian mother
CANDY
CATHARTIC
a
Who is well known as an author
OT all the evtls that attack children
scarcely any other Is more dreaded than
croup It ho often comes In the ntght
The danger is so great The climax Is so
sudden It Is no wonder that Mrs W J
Dickson better known under her pen-
name of Stanford Eveleth calls tt the
terror of mothers Nor is it any wonder
that she writes In terms of praise and
gratitude for the relief which she has
found both from her own anxtetlei and
for her childrens ailments lu Dr J C
Aycrs Cherry Pectoral
Memory does not recall the time when
Dr Ayers Cherry Tectoral was not used In
our family for throat and lung troubles
That terror of mothers the startling
croupy cough never alarmed me so long
as I had a bottle of Ayers Cherry Pectoral
to the house to supplement the hotwater
bath When suffering with whooping
cough In its worst form and articulation
was Impossible on accountof the choking
my children would point and gesticulate
toward the bottle for experience had
taught them that relief was In Us con-
tents Mrs W J Dickson Stanford
liveleth author of Romance ot the
Provinces Truro N S
C J Wooldridge Wortham Tex writes
One of ray children had croup One
night I was startled by the childs hard
breathing and on going to it found It
strangling It had nearly ceased to breathe
Having a part of a bottle of Dr Ayers
Cherry Pectoral In the house I gave the
child three doses at short Intervals and
anxiously waited results From the mo
nient the Pectoral was given the childs
breathing grew easier and In a short time
It was sleeping quietly and breathing nat-
urally The child Is alive and well to day
and I do not hesitate to say that Ayers
Cherry Tectoral saved Its life C J
Woolukidqe Wortham Tex
These statements make argument la
favor of this remedy unnecessary It is
a family medicine that no home should be
without It s Just as efficacious lu bron-
chitis asthma whooping cough and oil
other varieties of coughs as it is in croup
To put it within everyones reach Dr
Ayers Cherry Pectoral la now put up in
hiilf sire bottles at half price 50 cents
Send for Ayers Cureboolc free and read
of other cures effected by Dr Ayers
Cherry Pectoral Address the J C Ayer
Co Lowell Mass
Wu earned In S years by one
sent with our free outfit
You can r 01371 Maw York
DSelf Cling pat combinationbeanf
k No loose weights V S standard
Beetandchoepest Send or prices
WECKS SCALB WORKS BUPHALO N Y
ALL
DRUGGISTS
At ITU fl DC Wo wnnt your stories poems and
HU I HUno book MSS bost prlcos lncloss
Stamp Authors and Writers UnfanCntcagoIlt
Hooflns or Wall and Celling
Manilla Writ for samples and prices Tho Fn
Manilla Xtueflns Companr Cnmaen N J
IN THE tfrUARDKOOM
BY A B
p T was one of those
calm beatiful and
pensive evenings
only seen In all
their gorgeous
splendor In the fair
land pf tho Aztecs
that 1 sat or rather
reclined languidly
after the fierce heat
of tho summer day
on a wooden lounge
or cot the back and seat ot which were
covered with leather and which cot
together with an old cedar table and
ono or two stout chairs made of the
comba wood formed tho only furni-
ture of the dull guard room
Tho cuartel or barracks were now
almost entirely deserted the major
portion of the troops having been
thrown outside tho town to man and
garrison tho various batteries re-
doubts and earthworks to repulse the
coming enemy leaving tho cuartel on-
ly a guard for local duties
I had not long come In from the out-
lying pickets and had Just finished my
simple meal when feeling fatigued by
the unusual exertion I had undergone
that day I lay down on the wooden
cot Overcome at last by the exces-
sive heat and fatigue I slept How
long I slept I know not but was par-
tially aroused by the voice ot the ser-
geant of the guard saying
El Jefe del dla senor tho officer
of the day sir
I sprang up quickly nnd half
ashamed to have been caught napping
by a subordinate I seized my sword
and cried In a savage voice
Guardla formal
Grand rounds came and grand
rounds went and soon all was quiet
again the troops dispersed and I went
back to the guard room I however
noticed casually that up In one corner
of tho gateway and near the wicket a
small revolver lay on a piece of mat-
ting This belonged to the first ser-
geant of the Guard who In the Mex-
ican service Is allowed to carry them
the same as an officer I paid but lit-
tle attention to It at the time as weap-
ons lying around loose are common
enough In a soldiers barrack
I lay down again on the old cot but
do as I could I couldnt keep awake
and so resigning myself to my fate
I rolled over and was soon In tho arras
of Morpheus I had not slept long
when I was half awakened by a loud
voice In the passageway calling out
Adorantes Adorantes venga
aqulal Adorantes come here
Adorantes was tke4namo of the first
sergeant of the guard and the possessor
of the revolver spoken of before The
first speaker who by his voice I now
recognized as a certain Captain Aglluz
and whilom keeper ot the powder
magazine never Interfered In any way
with the duties of the soldiers and I
was the more astonished to find him
here at this time of night The ser-
geant In obedience to the summons of
his superior hurried upstairs lrt the
direction of the sound of the voices
He had hardly reached the topmost
step when I heard a very loud blow ad-
ministered by some one and which
blow was quickly followed by a des-
perate struggle and blasphemies the
Spanish tongue bejpg exceedingly pro-
lific In this style ot expressive and
emphatic language
I tumbled out anJ seizing my
sword which lay unsheathed on the
table I hurried upthe stairs to ascer-
tain the cause ot the tumult I there
found the captain and the sergeant
FEU WHEIIE HE STOOD
wrestling and struggling together the
sergeant having the captain down I
commanded them to desist as I as
captain of tho guard was responsible
for all disturbances that might occur
during the time I was on duty but In
vain They swore and clinched and
struggled fiercer than ever Wearied
at last and to end the matter I struck
tho sergeant a heavy blow with the
hilt of my sword full on his mouth
knocking a couple of teeth down his
throat and bringing tho blood freely
With an oath he released hs hold on
the captain and almost leaped down
the rickety stairs Quick as lightning
the thought came flashing through aiy
mind that I felt sick at heart as I recol-
lected that the fellows pistol lay in
tho entranceway and that he now
rushed with maddened frenzy to seize
It and shoot me and now I felt aa a
cold chill came over me that my only
hope was to close on him and run htm
through with my sword before he
could reach the pistol Quick as
thought I followed him down tho
stairs reaching the ground nearly a
soon as he did
The captain too came rushing ex-
citedly after us and with a horrified
expression of countenance that under
any but the present uncomfortable
state of things I should have laughed
Immensely at but tho sergeant was
not a man to let you laugh long at
anything where ho was concerned
that Is personally so before I could
close upon him ho fired I mechanical-
ly threw my hands up to shield my
face and sprang aside the ball whiz-
zing past my ear Again he raised
the fatal weapon This time I was
placed in a decidedly unpleasant pre-
dicament for the gallant captain of
tho powder magazine to shield his
sacred carcass held me tight around
the waist and In such a position that
I could neither use my hands nor
make the slightest attempt to defe nd
myself This time as ho raised the
smoking pistol I gave myself up for
lost He fired I Thank God the ball
Just missed me He raised again and
fired
At this last fire I mado one success-
ful effort and shook the captain off
It was well I did so for as I dropped
to the ground to escape the discharge
I left tho captain who was stooping
qulto exposed A hoarse cry of pain
rising above the report of the pistol
told me the captain was hit and so
sure enough he was the ball entering
the rim of his broad sombrero as he
stooped to screen himself from the ef-
fects of tho fatal fire ranged down-
ward and thence through his shoulder
and out of his side He fell where he
stood groaning at lntrvals As for
the sergeant Adorantes I was now
unencumbered and closing In upon
him I cut through the metallic guard
of his pistol severing his trigger finger
completely from the hand and the
guasd being now aroused he was
roughly secured and locked up In the
calabosa
The whole cuartel was now In a state
of great excitement for the slumber-
ing soldiers hearing the reports of
several shots rushed madly to seize
their arms the drummers added to
the confusion by beating their long
roll the noisy buglers made night
hideous with their discordant bray-
ing nnd to cap the climax the halt
sleepy bravos seeing the captain ly-
ing bleeding and groaning on tho
pavement and myself standing near
him supposing everybody was an
enemy let fly with their flintlocks
bang into the adobe walls tho ball3
rebounding and the dry mortar flying
around In every direction It was long
before things resumed the wonted
tenor of their way In that cuartel but
as the morning broke in the east the
barracks stood dull dismal and quiet
as ever and none to look at them
outwardly would ever have thought
that a murder had been committed but
a few hours previous
At 2 oclock precisely Captain Aglluz
died apparently without much pain
Three days after Sergeant Adorante3
underwent the extreme sentence of the
courtmartial he was tied across a
24pound howitzer and received 300
lashes well laid on He died ere ho
was unbound and Is now burled near
the sentrybox on the high road out
of town
liaising Egret Herons
In 1895 a merchant naturalist of
Tunis bought a piece of ground in
closed by a wall where a sufficient
quantity of water could be Introduced
In this Held a large space where thero
were flg trees was inclosedby wire
netting Then he procured from nests
the young egrets In 1896 by increase
his heronry contained about 400
egrets The females lay eggs twice a
year in April and Juno and the
young leaving the nest after fifteen
days mate the same year These
birds he feeds on minced horse and
mule meat twice a day one animal
costing from 5 to 0 francs sufficing
for a fortnight The nestlings are led
by their mother on small fish provided
for her The dorsal plumes are gath-
ered twice a year In May and Septem-
ber but it Is not until the bird is three
years old that thq plumes attain their
full beauty Each adult bird furnishes
seven grams of these per year that le
about 108 grama or 170 of a pound
yleldlag a value of 33 francs per head
7 Popular Science News
Leaves a Fortune
Forty years ago W H Trabue ot
Kokomo Ind disappeared and until
the present nothing has been heard
from him He has recently died hav-
ing accumulated 3000000 In Mississ-
ippi under the name of Tribbltt All
his money goes to the families of
brothers and sisters the will stipulat-
ing that the ohlldren shall recolvo
university education
Currents In tho Atlantic
Experiments have been going on for
the past two years for the purpose of
trying to learn something of the char-
acteristics of the Atlantic ocean as a
great moving body of water As a re
Bult the whole Atlantic is shown to
bo slowly circulating round and round
like an enormous pool
FARM AND STOCK ITEMS
Tho Importation of cattlo from Mex-
Ico continues by tho dally tralnlood
tho cattle going largely to winter
range in this state The rlso ot duties
does not seem to havo much effect on
the trafflc
J W Medlln of Denton Denton
county who recently went to Missouri
to purchae fine utock returned tho
other day with thirtyone head of flno
registered red Durham cattle all year-
lings The prices paid for the cattlo
vary from 100 to 175 each tho total
amount being 5000
Tho largest chicken In the state is
owned by J W Dockens of McKlnney
Collin county It Is an 18monthsold
Brahma rooster of tho Felch strain and
comes from Natttck Mass He weighs
fifteen pounds and walkB around tho
barn yard with a proud bearing and
evident consciousness of superiority
Eleven cars of Bulls were bhlpped
to Havana Cuba tho other day by
McCorralck Tadlock of Blooming
Grove Navarro county Geo Wray of
that place accompanied the Bhipment
On arrival at destination they will bo
killed and fed to the Spanish armies
The samo firm also shipped three cars
of steers to Chicago
Tho wheat acreage that has been
sowed in Navarro county as far aa
has been ascertained la 33 per cent
greater than it ever was before Far-
mers who never have given any land
for the cultivation of wheat havo
sowed enough to make their own bread
If they have good luck with it Thero
will also be more corn planted this
year
A prominent stockman of Grayson
county says that cattla in North Texas
and the Indian Territorywere con-
siderably damaged by the recent sleet
and cold spell All fattonlng cattlo
were more or less damaged numbers
of them losing a great deal of flesh
and It will take some time for them
to recuperate The damage in loss of
flesh where there were no deaths in
North Texas and the Indian Territory
will reach several thousand dollars
Several days ago the sale of landa
In Jones county at about 11 per acre
was announced This land was under
cultivation was fenced and had ton
ant houses It Is now known that a
tract of 228 acres of improved land has
been sold In the same nolgborhood for
13 per acre This wll llndlcate that
there Is something permanent about
tho rise In western lands a they were
sold without the aid of any kind ot
one of the tracts being sold to an ad-
joining settler
Ono of San Antanlos most promi-
nent cattlemen Is of the opinion that
tho cattle business is apt to maintain
its present large proportions through-
out Texas for some time to come but
that much depends on tho spring
rains Dry ranges he says are death
to the cattle industry and affect the
business quicker than low prices He
Btates that seven thousand head of
beef stock have been shipped out ot
the southern part of tho state for Cu-
ba and that now the quarantine reg-
ulations will not Interfere with the
traffic he looks for It to continue and
assume larger proportions than at
present
One of the best Informed cattlemen
of Texas estimates the number of
calves that have been shipped out ot
Texas this fall to feed In Kansas Ne-
braska and Mlssohrl pastures as 20000
head He also states that although
West Texas and the Panhandle havo
about as many cows and young steers
this year on the ranges ns last year
tho supply of aged steers has about
been exhausted As to Central Texas
he thinks tho scarcity of water In
many sections has preventod that part
of tho state from making as favorable
a showing as It otherwise would have
done It Is reported that West Texas
was never before In as prosperous a
condition as at present Generally
speaking water la plentiful on all ot
the ranges and the grass never better
An intelligent farmer who has a val-
uable draft horso will stable and feed
him well and use the currycomb arid
horse brush freely because he knows
that by such treatment the horso will
be enabled to do much more work than
he could possibly do it neglected The
samo farmer as likely as otherwise
will treat his land which Is probably
more valuable than the horse accord-
ing to folly He demands that It do Its
best without feed and with but very
little scratching and brushing Ha
knows or might know If ho bo de-
sired that by proper care and proper
feodlng his land will bo able to pro-
duce twice an much as before Land
should not be kept In Idleness That
land needs rest means it It meann
anything that it is tired ot tho shabby
treatment It receives and Is ready to
get a move on It whenever circum-
stances Justify A Chinaman or a
Belgian will support a family from two
acres of land Some American far-
mers cant support a family as it
ought to be done on two hundred
acres Texas Farm and Ranch
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