The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, September 20, 1895 Page: 3 of 8
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PREPARATIONS FOR THE FIFTY-
FOURTH CONGRESS.
Bonin Pemucniti Dread the Return of
Reed—Misupelt Names —Similarity of
Names Results In No Kitfl of Confu-
sion to Illnstrators.
(Washington Correspondence.)
O M E of the old
hold - over Demo-
crats of the house
of representatives
dread the return of
Speaker Reed to
the chair. Mr. Reed
v/jis so unpopular
with the members
of the party on the
floor that they
would not vote to
pass the usual reso-
lutions of thanks at the end of his
term. This case was not without pre-
cedent. In the Twenty-fifth congress
the. house refused to give a vote of
thapks to Speaker Folk. The motion
waS made, and the first name called
walk thut of John Quincy Adams. He
voted ip the negative emphatically. A
great many speeches were made during
the roll-call criticising Mr. Polk’s con-
duct as speaker. Mr. Polk was as firm
a partisan as Mr. Reed. Mr. Reed’s
r'ul, have been vindicated In meat
casj^Bnd the Democratic party was
forJ^yto adopt the odious "Reed rules"
in order to do business. But this does
not endear Mr. Reed to the members of
that party any the more.
John Quincy Adams, who opposed the
resolution of thanks to Mr. Polk, was
u good fighter himself, jpd a very stub-
born man. He made a sturdy fight for
the right of petition when some people
sept him an anti-slavery document to
present to the house. His contention
■was that every petitioner had a right
to lay his views before congress. Dur-
ing the controversy over this point, t|he
between the peace envoys of China
and Japan. tho Mistake was repeated a
great many tsmfia. V
The two membsrs of the Jones family
In the senate ha re been the'subjects of
frequent misunderstandings. Mr. Jones
of Arkansas hau figured In the comic
prints as Mr. Jones, of Nevada, and
vice versa.- Mr. Mitchell' of Oregon used
to find hlmsaV confused with Mr.
Mitchell of Pennsylvania a few years
ago. Now he la mistaken for Mitchell
of Wisconsin quite as frequently. Mr.
Qlbson of Louisiana and Mr. Gibson of
Muryland, Mr. White of Louisiana and
Mr. White or California were confused
when they served together In the sen-
ate. It was easy for the illustrator
who had a demand for a picture of
Senator White to pick up the first pie.
lure of “Senator White” which came to
hand without thinking there were two
oenators of that name.
One of the senators I have Just named
was discussing with me recently the
assaults made on the treasury by ofiloe-
Beekers and office-holders, and he re-
called an experience which he had at
the last session of congress with a man
from his own state. This man came to
him with a request that he have a para
graph Inserted In one of the approsirla
tlon bills making an appropriation for
a new office In the library of congress.
The librarian was willing to recommend
the appointment of a Jaborer; the salary
would be small, and there would be
probably very little objection to the ap-
propriation In either house or senate.
The senator said: "Why, you could not
work for so small a salary as that. You
could not afford to.” The applicant was
quite certain that he could. So the sena-
tor agreed to recommend the appropria-
tion and the office was cheated. The
senator’s constituent was appointed tc
the new place. Almost as Boon as the
pla,ce had been created, the new office-
holder came to the senator to get an
Increase in salary from congress. He
said that the other people who were do-
ing like work In the library received
twice as much money as he. Besides,
he could not live on so small a salary
The senator exploded promptly. ‘‘You
told me that this salary would satlsfj
Sketched Prow Photasrm|>h U Xawrlcao OlebrltlM,
THOMAS F
National Intelligencer, the principal pa-
per of Washington, If not the only one,
misspelled Mr. Adams' name. He
wrote a characteristic letter to the edi-
tor In protest. ”1 think that National
Intelligencer has printed enough libels
about me to be able to spell my name,”
he said.
It happe vs not Infrequently, though,
that men of the same name are con-
fused ih Illustrations. This happened a
t-’i-'fH many times lb the last adminis-
tration. There were two members of
tho cabinet named Poster—John W.
THOM -VS V RKKD. x
Footer -if rndlana, the secretary of strttot,
and Chat-lea W Pos'xr of Ohio, th» sSc-
rotnW of the tree si-.- •>. I* happened ■ a
meat many times when M- Poster of
Indiana in oflU-e, tout ale portrait
wits pfinii-l (ivOr a glory about Charles
Poster Wiiiio John \v Fostei was lit
v9*}•*•■ i-iiiiglnjt abbot an linderstaajdJng
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ytm. when I said that It would not,” hr
said. “Now you can take what you
have or you can get out of Washington
as soon as you please. I will make It
my particular business to see that thert
Is no Increase made for your partlculai
office.” . The office-holder Is still draw-
ing the small salary. But he Is not fond
of the senator, who is no other, thuai
Thomas F. Bayard, ambassador to]
England.
Gffiee-holdtng creates a race of beg-
gars—men and women who are hound-
ing congress continually for an Increase
yf salary or an extra month’s pay or an
allowance of some kind fflr "extra
work” done duHng regular work hours.
Office-holding as « rule 1$ destructive
of pride and ambition No olfi? who
k»i ws anything of Washington would
recommend to a young man of any
ability or any Intelligence to gy- Into
the government service When Sal-
mon P. Chase came to Washington It
onIy 1® year* of age, his uncle
Dudley Chase, was a member of th<
senate. The nephew thought that It
would he a, flip- thing to hold a clerk
ship under tip-' government, but Unci*
Dudley objected. “I will give you
the money to buy, a iqade.” he Is re-
ported to have said, "but -1 will nol
help you to get h posltloirninder tht
government.” Uncle Dudley was very
fond Of farming and tills may -u-count
in part for his offer .to his nephew. IRK
his advice) w is undoubtedly gone!
Young Chase established. a rlassl-al
school. Studied law in his leisure mo
ments, amt ev. etually wnt to Oineln
natl io practice b< the 'air. He lie
ram A a united Stater aVid after-
ward chief justice of the Suprerm
eOolrt of tfie 1 lilted He might
have been a chief, V 6'v|»l<jtl 'n nfo of
(lie dapartmitnts hkft ' foi Wa ud&i* •>
I HE 01 RJj HE LOVED.
MYSTERY CLEARED BY A CON-
FESSION.
BcshIa Harris Tells How She Wan Aided
l»v ller Father la the Perpetration of
Brutal Murder lu Texan.
*he Mystery of
the hanging of Al-
/^^N'w)t»\bert Blackman, near
f ^ /[ Ramlena, Texas, was
i fPS> fully explained, sev-
era* days ago, when
his fiance. Miss Bes-
sie Harris, made a
full confession in
court. She said that
Blackman, who was
a well-to-do young
farmer, had been courting her for some
time, In opposition to the'wishes of her
parents. Her father and mother *41*1
not object to the young man on account
of any of his habits, for he was Indus-
trious, sober and abundantly able to
provide a comfortable home for their
daughter. They maintained that she
was too young, being scarcely lfLyOars
of age, and they hoped she would take
a fancy to a relative living In another
state, whose name she steadfastly re-
fused to divulge. Finding that they
could not change her affection for
Blackman by threats, they adopted a
mere certain method and commenced
a systematic attack upon her Jealous
nature. They told her Blackman was
simply making her ridiculous, and that
he was engaged to another girl. She
gave him no chance to explain away
the reports her parents had furnished
of him, and did not even mention that
she suspected him of Infidelity.
At ■ hot father’s suggestion she re-
quested of Blackman that he give her
a test of his love by letting her hang
him, promising to cut him down in
time to save his life. Blackman was
desperately In love with the girl and
he readily submitted to the test. \ On
the night of the murder she {ook e, long
walk with him and lured him to a lone-
ly spot where her father was In hid*
Ing with a rope. Excusing herself for
a moment, she procured the rope, and,
returning, placed it about Blackman's
neck. She gays he had little fear of
the result, as he felt sure she did not
have strength enough to pull him from
the ground. After the rope had been
placed over the limb and drawh taut,
her father appeared, and he and the
girl pulled Blackman from the ground
and tied the rope. The poor fellow
struggled'terribly and she would have
cut him down, but her father mentioned
the mythical;bther young woman, and
her heart hardened toward the lover,
who was slowly strangling to death.
After the body became rigid she un-
tied the rope and lowered the form to
the ground. Even then she felt no
pangs of remorse, but with the assist-
ance of her father arranged the body
so that It would appear to have been a
case of suicide. Her confession caused
a pronounced sensation, and there was
talk of lynching the parents of the girl.
This was averted by the promptness of
the officials.
ALBINO HUCKLEBERRIES.
A Curloa* Fruit Said to Bit Peculiar to
tho State of Wooden Nutmeg*.
Norwich, Conn., telegram.—Farmer
F. B. Crandall of Bozrah,?slx miles west
of this city, came to town this week
wlfti five quarts of albino huckleber-
ries, which he readily sold for a round
price to merchants and others who
fancy freaks of nature. Mr. Crandall’s
fruit was the first sample of white
hnokieherrioB ever seen in Norwich.
The berries were all large, hard, 'firm
of tevture, sweet and lusstous, and
about as white as milk. Albino berries
are extremely rare; in fact, ‘.‘about as
skeerce as hens’ teeth,” saiq'lllr. Cran-
dall, after he had pocketed 20 cents a
box for some of the fruit. There are
not more than half a dozen places in
Connecticut, probably, whore they
grow, %nd It Is not known that they
grow In any other state. There Is a
patch of albino-bearing bushes In the
hilly town of Salem, which adjoins
Bozrah; another In Hartford county, a
third In Windham county, and there
are two or three more In different parts
of the state. The Salem albinos cluster
about the- apex of a wind-swept, tree-
less ktitfil In the middle of a heavy
wooifl, end the whole plot Is not more
than fifteen or twenty feet In diameter.
By many pe?8ons It Is believed that the
berrie nnt not albinos, blit a distinct
species of whortleberries! since they
never mix or amalgamate with the com-
mon black huckleberry. Neither are
they greatly disposed to propagate
themselves oV spread on new ground.
All the widely separated plots are of
about the Same dimensions, while In
the case <rf the Salem patch It Is khown
to he of Just about the same size; flow
nf 100 years ago.
Row Sho .Initgod Him.
She -Who la that man smoking
cigar? f
He—That’s <Tvmpson. He
cents apje-e for ala cigars.
She- -Well, he seems to expectorate
4 Very .common sort of saliva.
A BOTHERED TfiRRIER:
TXS Boy with th« Indent ructlbt. Rnt
Fa* More than lie Htarselned For,
A rat, a terrier, and a smaH ijoy
caused thousands of people to congre-
gate on West Madison street about 9
o’clock last night, and It w«s not a real
rat, either, says Chicago News. The
rat, which was a most natural-looking
rubber affair, was connected with a
long thin pipe and 4 bulb. Every time
the boy squeezed the bulb the rat would
leap forward In a most life-like manner
ana the iadic* pA the street would
shriek with terror and gather ui their
skirts. > This dcjlghted the trowd,
which surged down on the boy and the
rat from every direction. ,The fun was
kept up for an hour or more, even the
policeman on the beat stopping now
and then for a good laugh. Suddenly
however, a sleek-looklng rat terrier
sprang through tho crowd and made for
his ihortal enemy. Down he ponneed.
The boy gave the bulb a jab and the
rat leaped about six feet. Again the
dog made a spring. This time he
caught the rat in his teeth and the
.pressure caused it to give out a most
life-like squeak, which delighted the
dog and audience alike.
By this time the street was packed.
Time after time the dog would shake
the rat and put it down, only to see It
leap again, to the wild delight of the
crowd. For the first half hour It was
mere play to the plucky little terrier,
but after a while things began to grow
monotonous. The dog lay down for a
rest and the rat jumped over him.
This was too muoh for canine flesh and
blood to stand. He leaped up again,
and now the contest kept up until the
dog fell to the payement from sheer
exhaustion. Panting and with eyes
protruding, he made a few more in-
effectual snaps at the rubber rat, then
turned over on hifl side and laid his
head on the pavement. His owner
worked his way through the crowd,
picked up his pet in his arms, uttered
a few remarks, and offered to lick the
man who had killed his dog. The
crowd jeered and dispersed, while the
small boy strolled down the street in
search of another ambitious rat terrier.
THE BOGUS-CHECK DODGE.
How the Shrewtl Crook Worked the Clerk
to III* Own Benefit.
"Ever get left on the bogus check
racket?” repeated the hotel clerk.
“Only once.
“It was Just after I came here. A
stranger alighted from the bus and
called me by name even before he en-
tered the door. He was asking me
how I liked Buffalo and telling me
that Jimmy, the bartender, and Dave,
the head waiter in the hotel where I
used to. work in I^ttsburg, had sent
their regards to - hie-even before he
registered. I wm3 kicking myself, be-
cause I cotildift remember him, but, of
course, I didn’t give'myself away. The
name he put on the register didn’t en-
lighten ipe any, either.
“The next morning when I came on
watch my neMr friend was ready to de-
part.,. He greeted me with ’Hello, old
man!' Just tell your cashier this check
is ail right, will you? I want to settle
my bill. I’ve got to run down to Roch-
ester, but I’ll be back with you to-mor-
row.’ The check was for $50, and was
signed by one of the best firms in Pitts-
burg. I told the cashier to take it. He
didn’t happen to have enough money
at the time, and my gentleman began
to bluster: ‘If you don’t want to cash
It,’ he said, ‘I’ll take it down to the
Mansion house, where I used to stop.
They’ll take It fast enough.’ That
ought to have aroused my suspicions.
Men whose credit is aftml are nalready
to resent fancied slights on their finan-
cial stability. But I argued to myself
that the man had only come to' our
house on my account, and. that we
should lose a customer If he was not
accommodated, so I was more anxious
than ever to oblige him. I held him
till the cashier got the money, and gave
him his change, $47.
"A few days afterward the check was
returned to ub as a forgery. I have
heard that the fellow played the same
game all over the country. He evi-
dently made a specialty of posting him-
self on the history and personal ap-
pearance of hotel clerks, and the dVslre
of our class to be known as everybody’s
friend did the rest.”
Another Story of Wellington.
A characteristic napedote of the duke
of Wellington: “One,.pf his aids de
camp was found by the duke at Strath-
fleldsaye reading a French book, In
which it was said that the duke did not
win the battle of..Toulouse. ’I do not
care a straw,’ said tbe duke, 'what they
say as to who,'' won the 'battle; the
French fought it to keep me out of
Krahce, but I got into France.”
ft A»1 Depended.
Mother—I am going out, Mamie, and
I want yoq to be a good little girl whilo
I am gone, and I’ll bring you home a
pnper of candy. Now. aren’t yon going
to bo gOUiJ?
Mamie- Well suppose so. but I
can’t tell now good I ought to bo unions
I know how big that Dnper of cgndy Is
KOltlg to U’.-'-Elk
THE DOC’S ORICIN.
Some Intera.ting IVt. AImiuI Man's
Matt Falthfnl Krtenit.
Although the recent discussion of tho
origin of the dog cannot fie said to
have settled the long-controverted
question, there seems to be a decided
drift of opinion among naturalists to
the theory that our numerous varieties
of domesticated dogs are descended not
from a single speeles, but from several
kln,ds of wild animals, as, for Instance,
the wolf and the jackal. There are re-
corded examples of tamed wolves,
which In gentleness, love for their mas-
ters and intelligence showed a truly
dog-llke capacity. With regard to
tamed jackals, Darwin has pointed out
that, when caressed, they jump about
for Joy, wag their tails, lower their
ears, lick their master’s hands, crouch
down, and even throw themselveB on
the ground, feet upwards. When ?rlght-
ened they carry their tails between
their legs. On the other hand, It Is un-
derstood that, whatever animal we may
consider his progenitor, the domestica-
tion of the dog began at an epoch ex-
ceedingly remote. The fossi,l remains
of a large dog have been found In ter-
tiary deposits, and there is no doubt
that-tfct dog existed In a domesticated
state during prehistoric times. His
bones are discovered in the shell-heaps
of Denmark and In the lake dwellings
of Switzerland. The dog meets us in
the dawn of history, for such varieties
as the hound, greyhound and watchdog
are depleted on Egyptian monuments
five thousand years old. It Is well
known that in Egypt the dog was
worshiped under the title of Anu-
bls, and dog mummies have been
found. There is mastiff figured
on an Assyrian sculpture belong-
ing to 640 B. C. The fact Is often
overlooked that dogs were used by the
Greeks and Romans not only In tho
chase and for hunting down escaped
prisoners, but for war, being armed
for that purpose not only with spiked
collars, but with a coat of mail. It is
said that Corlntti was on one occasion
saved by fifty war-dogs, which foiled
a night attack of the enemy, fighting
until all were killed but one, which
succeeded In arousing the garrison. It
is worth noting that, according to some
naturalists, the Newfoundland and St.
Bernard dogs form a group by them-,
selves, derived neither from wolves nor
jaekais, but from a distinct species of
progenitors. It Is a disputed question
whether the Newfoundland dog is in-
digenous to North America or was in-
troduced either by the Norwegians in
tho year of 1000 or by Cabot in 1497.
Bearing on this question is the inter-
esting fact that, the Norwegians haYe
dogs closely resembling the Newfound-
land breed. Th^Dingo dog of Australia
does certainly seem to constitute a dis-
tinct, indigenous species, since it is
now found in both a wild and .a,domes-
ticated state In that and Its ,
fossil remains are assnafated w'ith those ' ’ ",
of extinct mammals'. ’ "• y > C *.
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BERLIN’S PRIVATE Pt>ST. '
It Rival, the Government Service In
Cheapnrwi.
Berlin has had for some years past a
private postal company for the delivery
of letters and packages, and students
of the postal question are somewhat
astonished to learn that this concern
rivals the government postoffice in
cheapness and pays annual dividend#"
of 25 per cent. The private post car-
ried a- letter, ordinary weight within
the bounds of the city at two pfenninge,
or aj>put 5 7-16 mills. Last year the
private phst carried 2,250,600 packages.
The company employs 1,000 men and
many horses. The private post charges
!*s« thsn the yubMe post for packages,
circulars, and the like, and does a grea<t
deal of the work for business houses
that in New York is accomplished by
special delivery wagons and messen-
gers in the employment of the house.
Some business houses save large sums
annually by making use of the private
post.
The capitaliof the concern Is not
large, for its tS'jier cent dividend was
made last yeat from net profits of about
$100,000. It has been suggested that the
great European capitals Should have
like private pists and establish an In-
ternational exchange for letters, and
packages In^cotppetition with the Postal
Union. But th4 laws of most European
countries, like those of the United
States, secure to the government a
monopoly of business strictly postal.
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Woman’* Charm.
I am quite sure that men regard
“sweet simplicity” as the greatest
charm in women, and especially in
girls, writes Ethel Ingalls. This does
not mfon simplicity Iq the simpering <
sense, but an absence of tkat affected
sir of boldness and mannishness which
has lately been assumed by too many
really lovable girls, w^en, too, slh-
ccrity in expression Is one qf the
ictcrlstlcs that charm men. To be sln-
-ere and candid the girl ln'soclety need
never ho abrupt nor'self-assertive.
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