Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 104, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 11, 1894 Page: 2 of 4
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EVERHARDT IS HERE.
EARNING A LIVING
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.
FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
TO STOP OUR TOM MONGHAN.
TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT 11. 1894.
THE GRAND ARMY.
THE TEMPLES OF JUSTICE.
1OL
Phone 674.
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By Fishing Up Old Anchors and
Chains
Goes Into Training For His Battle
With Abbott.
Age
Purity
Quality
Strength
DEREBRINE,
MEDULLINE,
CARDINE, .
1 ESTINE, .
OVARINE, .
Several Boat Cre ws Make a Com-
fortable Income in This
Novel Manner.
Democratic managers want Presi-
pent Cleveland to take the stump in
West Virginia for Congressman Wil-
son, whom the republicans are making
heroic efforts to defeat as the head of
the tariff reform element. Mr. Cleve-
land will hardly yield to such a demand.
It would be a serious defection from
presidential propriety.
His Manager Says the Late Fight
was Dead S quare—Creedon’s
Backer Talks.
Boats
A cable is
vessels, and
When an an-
and digestive power
Dose, Five Drops. Price (2 drachmS), $2.50.
THE COLUMBIA CHEMICAL CO.,
Washington, D. C.
Send for Book.
The Galveston Tribune.
Official City Newspaper.
Bob McGee,
Jim Smith.
GREAT SNAKES.
commissioners voting to thus virtually
squander public funds are Westerlage,
Byrne and Dean. Commissioner Vidor
alone opposed the award. The amount
is small but there is nothing to prevent
the principle from being stretched to a
much larger sum on other contracts.
It can not be defended upon any ground
of public'expediency, common sense or
fairness.
PABST BREW CO.
Cool Keg and Unexcelled
Bottled Beer.
Telephone Wagon on hand
day and night.
TELEPHONE No. 256.
Private Families Supplied.
M. BrOCk, Manager.
Galveston is an ideal place for train-
i ng pugilists. Come to think of it,
Galveston is an ideal place for any-
thing in the range of physical comfort
or health.
lit
The
Procession.
Referring to my announcement of August
1,1 have again embarked in the grocery and
feed trade with a complete stock in both
lines. Staple and Fancy Groceries, California
Fruits, Fish and Oysters. In the feed line I
carry Corn Meal, Bran, Corn, Oats, Cotton
Seed Meal, Wheat for Chickens, Hay, and
everything at rock bottom prices. Delivered
free to all parts of the city. Send your
orders to the old reliable
PAUL HARDEN,
Corner 33d and Winnie.
Galveston
A Local Contest.
The following agreement to a 15-
round glove contest was signed in Gal-
veston last evening:
We, the undersigned, Jim Smith of
Galveston and Bob McGee of San An-
tonio, do hereby agree to do a 15-round
bout with gloves in Galveston on Sep-
tember 15.
(Signed)
“ ROCK’S RED STORE.
SPECIAL!
Fresh spare ribs, 6c lb.: new sauer kraut,
5c lb.; Magnolia milk. 3 for 25c; evaporated
cream, 3 for 25c; Challenge milk, 2 for 15c; 1
other brand, 5c can; Heno tea, 60c lb.
2607 and 2609 Market St.
Galveston’s waterworks bonds are all
right, but unless there is a speedy and
radical reform in financiering, not only
will future bonds be without demand
but interest on outstanding issues will
be defaulted. The reform must begin
at the beginning by reconstructing the
mode of electing aidermen with more
concern for a cart load of sand to fill a
hole in their neighborhood than for the
city’s credit and general prosperity.
Jack Everhardt is here.
He came in yesterday afternoon -at
3.45 o’clock and was met at the depot
by a number of his Galveston friends.
As he alighted from the train his
friends gathered around him and shook
him warmly by the hand, Jack smiled
and seemed pleased at the welcome. A
carriage was standing in waiting and
the party entered it and -were driven to
Everhardt’s headquarters located on
Avenue I and Twenty-fourth streets.
The lightweight pugilist remained in-
doors during the afternoon but vent-
ured out for a short time yesterday
evening. He met a number of his for-
mer acquaintances and was given a
cordial reception.
Everhardt, unlike most pugilists, has
very little to say. He never tells what
he is going to do, but generally gets
there just the same. When he is asked
whether he can knock out any pugilist
in his class his invariable answer is
Recorder’s Court.
Bud Harris, cursing aud abusing;
continued.
Bud Harris, disorderly conduct; con-
tinued.
Cora Durand, assaulting and strik-
ng; fined $10.
_Frank Lucas, drunk and down; fined
$5.
Charles Dillon and Charles Gautael,
fighting; Dillon fined $5, Gautael not
guilty.
Maud Nelson, drunk and disorderly,
fined $5.
J. W. Parker and J. W. Hasselmeyer,
drunk and disorderly, continued.
James Coffey, drunk and down, not
guilty.
Ida Nelson, disorderly conduct; not
guilty. _________
BOILER maker
Repairing of Marine, Locomotive and
Stationary Boilers a Specialty.
With C. B. Lee & Co. Telephone 258.
The actual Business Training School
of the South.
The Tribune yesterday called atten-
tion to the act of the commissioners’
court in letting a road contract to other
than the lowest bidder because the
lowest bidder was not a resident of
Galveston county. The difference in
the bids was $296 instead of $96 as was
stated yesterday. The names of the
Wholesalers in Galveston report
business picking up at a lively rate.
The board of trade is advertising the
Santa Fe excursions on September 15,
22 and 29 and expects to induce many
buyers to come in for fall purchases.
LEMP’S B
SSiS®* Celebrated g^ER
‘ Charlie Scheele’s Saloon, gJ
2024 P. O., Next New Opera-House.
GALVESTON PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Tribune Building, cor. 21st and Market Sts.
Entered at the Galveston postoffice as
mail matter of the second class.
LEGISLATURE AND CITY GOV-
ERNMENT.
The action of the county Democratic
executive committee in calling a con-
vention to nominate candidates for the
legislature precipitates an issue which
must be understood quickly. The
serious attention of every taxpayer and
citizen is demanded.
The city of Galveston is more than
$100,000 behind in the payment of cur-
rent expenses, with no hope, under
present revenues, of ever catching up.
At this rate not only will the debt con-
tinue to grow, but interest on bonds
next spring can not be met. Without
radical and far-reaching remedies mu-
nicipal bankruptcy is inevitable. That
is a stern way of putting the case, but
nothing less will express it.
There is but one way out of the di-
lemma and that is fund the present
debt and reduce expenses. No bonds
can be issued to pay current obliga-
tions without a special act of the legis-
lature making the neccessary chartei*
amendment. Herein lies the neces-
sity of electing representatives who
understand the situation and will be
able to effect the remedy.
But that is not all. The present sys-
tem of city government is a notorious
failure. Without going into further
particulars the exhausted treasury and
rapidly accumulating debt condemn,
without palliation, either the incum-
bent administration or the operation
of the municipality under the
existing charter. Without bring-
ing up records of individual in-
efficiency, the recollection of sectional
legislation and the easy access of ward
politicians to seats in the council, since
the charter was amended to elect mem-
bers by wards, suggest that the system
is primarily at fault. It is easier for a
bad man to dominate a ward than to ob-
tain a controlling influence throughout
the city. He can more easily command
voters who have selfish ends in view
and has a smaller field of accounta-
bility for the charactei* of his public
service. In a small city like Galves-
ton there are no diverse interests of
such a serious nature as to require
special representatives by sections, and
wards are useful only as convenient
divisions of local geography. In politi-
cal respects they are the nesting places
of heelers whom it is an accident to
defeat.
With ward representation there is
too much temptation among good citi-
zens to trust to other wards and to the
city at large for good councilmen and
to default in concern for the one be-
neath their very noses. With alder-
men-at-large and the entire field at
stake in opposition to a ticket of unde-
sirable character, the good citizens are
aroused to the necessity of action, and
can generally be depended upon to turn
out the clear majority of intelligence and
uprightness which exists in every com-
munity. Without ward representation
there would be no need for so many ai-
dermen. One half the number could
transact the business with greater
speed and less expense. City govern-
ment is, or should be, purely business
in character and effect. There are no
political principles involved and all
elections should be made with the
same idea that controls the selection of
men for commercial positions. If this
were done, as it can be done without
ward representation, the city would
never be confronted with a debt im-
possible to pay and the outlook for
accumulating and overwhelming bank-
ruptcy.
These are the issues which are pre-
cipitated by the legislative primaries,
called for next Monday night, and the
time is all too short for a thorough
comprehension of the situation. It is
all the more important, therefore, that
voters shall insist at once upon know-
ing who are to be proposed as candi-
dates and how they stand upon these
vital questions.
Army and Navy Chaplains.
_ Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 11.—The na-
tional association of army and navy
chaplains to-day elected T. H. Hag-
gerty of the 93d Illinois president, and
C. C. McRab of the 122d Ohio secre-
tary.
Pan 1 Sheari & Co.
PLUMBERS,
PHONE 20. GAS AND STEAM FITTERS,
2123 MECHANIC STREET.
Everhardt’s visit to Galveston is for
two purposes. He is anxious to meet
Tom Monghan, Galveston’s clever
lightweight, and then again he has
heard -so much of Galveston as a train-
ing place for pugilists that he was
anxious to train here for his battle
with Stanton Abbott, the English light-
weight,. which will occur before the
Olympic club of New Orleans Septem-
ber 25.
Everhardt is anxious to meet “our
Tom” and will forfeit $100 if he can
not stop him in five rounds. Monghan
is equally anxious to meet the New
Orleans lad and he told the sporting
man of The Tribune so last night.
Monghan said he would put forth his
best efforts to make a showing against
Everhardt and his friends are inclined
-to believe that the conqueror of Stan-
ton Abbott willjhave some little'diffi-
culty in putting Monghan to sleep in
the stipulated numbei* of rounds. r~W~l
Everhardt and Monghan wilb[meet
Thursday night at the Tremont opera-
house to try conclusions. In addition
to this, Jim Bates, the welly known
welter-weight, will attempt to put
Maloney, the Galveston scrapper, out
in four rounds or forfeit $25. There
will also be several bouts between local
boxers.
This morning the sporting man of
The Tribune saw Jack Everhardt’s
manager and had a talk with him rela-
tive to the recent fight between Ever-
hardt and Abbott, in which it was
claimed that Abbott got decidedly the
worst of the referee’s decision.
“The fight was dead on the square,”
said Mr. Wallace, Everhart’s manager.
“The truth of the matter is that
Everhardt’s ability as a scrapper
was greatly underestimated. Ab-
bott’s friends thought he would
have a walkover, and they were badly
fooled. The cry of foul was raised in
the twelfth round, when both men
clinched and fell to the floor, and Ev-
erhardt’s knee struck Abbott in the
stomach. It was purely an accident,
as any fairminded man who witnessed
the contest will testify.
“Everhardt had his man licked in
the twelfth round but did not want to
take any chances. Everhardt is con-
fident that he is a better man than
Abbott or he would not tackle him
again.”
Everhardt will do his training in
this city and will leave for New Or-
leans a few days before the fight.
Everhardt commenced training this
morning. He took a run on the beach
and this afternoon punched the bag for
half an hour. He is in fine condition
and is anxious to meet Abbott.
that he was entitled to have them, as
he had made the bases five times
before the ball was found. The
hose boys claimed they had won
the game by a score of 32 to 31. Of
course, we were not going to stand any
such monkey business as that and we
made a kick. The upshot of the whole
matter was that half of the village had
a free fight with the other half, the
opposing sides led by two ball clubs,
who used their bats with terrific effect.
That was a fight for a man’s life, and
till this day all the wounds made there
have not healed.
“All of which,” concluded the man
who weighs two hundred and twenty-
five, “makes me feel that baseball now-
adays is as calm and peaceful as a sum-
mer day compared with what it used
to be.”—Chicago Post.
Creedon’s Backer Confident.
New York, N. Y., Sept. 11.—Colonel
John N. Hopkins, backer of Dan Cree-
don, reports that his man is getting in
splendid fix at a quiet place near St.
Louis for his approaching fight with
Bob Fitzsimmons.
“I never saw a more confident man
in my life than Creedon,” said Colonel
Hopkins. “He has been itching for
this match ever since he came to this
country and now he is contented. Dan
does not underestimate Fitzsimmons.
No one knows the latter’s ring tactics
better than Creedon, and I think the
sporting world will be treated to a
greatei* surprise than was furnished by
that remarkable person, Young Griffo,
recently.
“I think Jim Hall has a pretty good
idea of what both men can do and he is
sure Fitzsimmons has a mighty hard
job on hand. Creedon will not leave
for New Orleans until a few days be-
fore the fight. The club is bound to
do well, for not less than 100 St. Louis
men alone will be at the ringside. If
the other big sporting towns send as
many the Olympic club arena will not
be big enough.”
THE
Animal Extracts
Prepared according to the formula of
DR. WM. A. HAMMOND,
<n his laboratory at Washington, D. C.
The most wonderful therapeutic
discovery since the days of Jenner.
From the brain.
From the spinal cord.
From the heart.
From the testes.
From the ovaries.
The physiological effects produced by a sin-
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pulse with feeling of fullness and distention
in the head, exhilaration of spirits, increased
urinary excretion, augmentation of the ex-
pulsive force of tb» bladder and peristaltic
action of the intestines, increase in muscular
Many strange ways of making a live-
lihood are to be found in and near a
great city, and one of the strangest of
these hereabouts is fishing up lost an-
chors and anchor chains from the bot-
toms of the bays and of the sea along
the coast. It is not what might be
called a flourishing industry, says the
New York Evening Post, but is, in-
deed, a precarious dependence for the
necessaries of life; yet it yields suste-
nance enough to have created quite a
number of followers. Several schoon-
ers and sloops are engaged almost ex-
clusively in this “trade,” and each
carries a crew of from three to ten
men.
These odd fishermen seek their inan-
imate prey whenever the weather per-
mits, and, of course, are most active
during the long summer days. Like
the takers of living spoils from the
water, they know the field of their op-
erations thoroughly, and expend their
energies mostly where the “fishing” is
best. Perhaps, of all the “grounds” in
this vicinity, they regard the stretch
of sea off the Delaware breakwater as
the most profitable. It is widely known
among skippers and all seafaring men
who visit these parts as a great ceme-
tery for anchors. They are being con-
stantly “planted” there, to use the
nautical phrase. The perpetual invol-
untary “sowing” of anchors there is
due to the large number of vessels that
are compelled by conditions of busi-
ness or of wind and tide to ride off the
breakwater, and to their getting fre-
quently caught in a gale while doing
so. Then, the floor of the sea at that
point appears to have a peculiar facil-
ity for fouling anchors, and vessels are
not seldom compelled—or prefer, as the
less of two evils—to abandon them.
Territory up and down the coast
ranks next, in the anchor fisherman’s
esteem, as a fruitful anchor bed. The
interior waters of the harbor are more
barren, yet repay search. Even the
North and East rivers, for some dis-
tance up, are occasionally harvested,
and usually not wholly in vain.
The method of anchor fishing is sim-
ple to primitiveness. It consists in let-
ting down a chain in a loop from the
sides of the vessel until the loop trails
along the bottom. Then the boat sails
along with all hands on board alert for
a “bite.” Plain as this tackle is, it is
effective as any that could be devised.
“Planted” anchors almost invariably
lie with one fluke buried in the mud
and the other sticking straight up. If
the angling chain is dragging in the
direction of the inner curve of the up-
standing fluke, it is almost a sure
“catch.” Then the line wPh the anchor
attached is carefully hoisted, some times
by hand, or if the anchor is very heavy,
by means of capstans. If the spoil is
a very weighty one—say four, five or
six thousand pounds, a driving engine
is frequently employed. The instances
are few, however, where the fishermen
fail to secure their booty. When nec-
essary the crew of one anchor smack
will lend a hand to another,
often work in pairs,
stretched between the
dragged on the bottom.
chor is caught one of the vessels takes
a position above it and both crews
assist in raising it. This method in-
sures a wide sweep of the bottom.
There are two purposes for which the
“catch” is disposed of. Usually the
anchors are sold to be used as an-
chors again, for a moderate, or even
a considerable, degree of rust in
no way impairs their efficiency as
such. If they are too much eaten up
by rust, which seldom happens, they
are -sold as old iron. As they are of
wrought iron the price brought is often
considerable. There are also two ways
by which the fishermen find a market
value for their wares. They either
sell them directly by hawking-
them about among the vessels in the
harbor or they sell them to the ship-
chandlers. Sometimes they have per-
mission from wharf-owners or lessees
to stick the anchors up there with a
notice that they are for sale, with the
price stated. As a rule they get very
good prices. New anchors are sold for
five cents a pound now, and the re-
covered old ones seldom suffer a great-
er depreciation in value than one cent
a pound. Therefore, for every one
thousand pounds of anchor they cap-
ture the fishermen make about forty
dollars, and if the anchor is one of the
very heaviest—a six thousand pounder
—their haul nets them about two hun-
dred and forty dollars. They seldom take
a monster of that size, however; their
usual capture is between fifteen hun-
dred and twenty-five hundred pounds.
There are several reasons for this. In
the first place the lighter anchors are
more generally used; in the second
place it is the sailing vessels which
most often lose their anchors, and, as
a rule, they carry lighter anchors than
steamers, and, in the third place, most
large vessels—whether steam or sail-
ing—commonly carry both a light and
a heavy anchor, and seldom drop the
latter in the harbor or immediately
off the coast, using it for deeper and
rougher seas. The fact that steam
vessels lose their anchors less frequent-
ly than sailing vessels is due to their
being able to use their steam, when
necessary, to check the strain upon the
anchor chain.
The captured anchor chains often
make a substantial addition to the gain
of the fishermen, fetching about three
three cents a pound. Sometimes they
are very long and weigh hundreds of
pounds.
One of the divers of a local wreck-
ing company makes a business of keep-
ing an eye open for lost anchors
while examining or working around
sunken vessels. He is said to have lo-
cated several, and to have made a con-
siderable sum as the result of his enter-
prise.
Newspapers in Russia were forbid-
den some time ago to make any refer-
erence to the dresses worn by the em-
press on state occasions. This was
done because one paper by mistake re-
ported her as wearing a dress which at
that time was completely out of fashion.
The Tribune’s want column is the cheapest
and best advertising medium. Three lines
three times for 25 cents.
FORETOLD NAPOLEON’S FALL
Discovery of Manuscripts Written
by an Ancient Astrologer.
Some old manuscripts have just been
discovered in San Francisco of wonder-
ful importance. These manuscripts
are the production of one Peter Han-
sen, a noted . Danish astrolog-er, who
lived through the end of the sixteenth
and beginning of the seventeenth cen-
turies. He was a contemporary and.
correspondent of Johann Kepler, the
great German astronomer, Basil and
other learned men of that time. He
was also a nephew and pupil of the
celebrated Danish astronomer, Tycho
Brahe, and lived in Copenhagen in the
years 1594 to 1612. The discovered
Hansen manuscripts are in possession
of a descendant, Olaf Linnberg, who,
however, knew nothing of their nature,
although believing them of great im-
portance. Mr. Christian Andersen, an
accomplished Danish scholar, has ex-
amined these old papers and found
wonders in them.
Part of these manuscripts are of the
greatest importance to the American
people at the present time. But first it
will be well to show the value of these
calculations and predictions. The great
plague of 1664-1665 is clearly foretold,
with cumulative disaster on London,
indicating the great fire more than
half a century in advance. Lilly bor-
rowed from this. The French revolu-
tion and the rise and fall of Napoleon
are clearly predicted and with entire
precision in the designation of years.
These are accompanied by charts and
diagrams, apparently of terrestial and
celestial combination. On one of these
charts is a heavy line from the French
frontier of Moscow. The fall of Na-
poleon is told with the force of lan-
guage of a prophet. It says:
‘ ‘The conqueror shall become haughty
and despotic, drunken with ambition,
leading his victorious hosts through
fire and blood as a glutton revels at a
feast. Then shall he penetrate the
north for new conquests, passing be-
yond the lines of his auspicious star,
and two stars of evil omen confront
him. His victorious banner shall wither
like dry twigs in a blast of fire. He
shall stagger back before a hurricane
of destruction, tattered, bleeding and
torn, and fall prostrate to the earth.
Yet shall he rise again, in the furious
agony of a dying giant, to sink forever,
as choking in a sea of blood. ”
Among the other predictions in these
old documents are the destruction of
Lisbon by earthquake, the extinction,
of the papal temporal power, the
Franco-German conflict and other great
natural and political convulsions.
Rudy’s Pile Suppository is guaran-
teed to cure piles and constipation, or
money refunded. 50 cents per box. Send
stamp for circular and free sample to
Martin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa. For sale
by all first-class druggists. Wholesale
agents: Thompson & Ohmstede and
Mensing & McCullough.
You find the best selection of furni-
ture at E. Dulitz’s, Masonic Temple.
Commissioners’ Court.
The county commissioners met in ad-
journed session at 12.30 to-day. Com-
missioners Vidor, Westerlege, Dean
and Byrne were present. Judge Hans-
com being absent, Commissioner Vidor
presided.
Petition of Sheriff Tiernan for $1100
for salary of jailor and care of prison-
ers was granted.
Monthly report of R. H. Read, com-
missioner of roads, received and' filed.
Report of superintendent of county
farm, showing crops in good condition,
except cotton, which has been slightly
damaged by rain, was received and
filed. The report stated that the cane
crop was exceedingly fine and would
net a good sum when sold.
The county attorney reported ad-
versely on the claim of the J. S. Brown
Hardward company for $17 15 for two
revolvers purchased by the sheriff dur-
ing the recent railroad strike, and the
sheriff was notified that he would have
to assume the bill.
Report of County Physician W. I.
Ducie was received and ordered filed.
The report recommended that the bills
against the county for care of patients
be approved by the chief surgeon of the
hospital before paid.
Petition of citizens on mainland for
grading and ditching road from Ar-
cadia to Hitchcock was referred to road
and bridge committee.
The county attorney- reported that
Mr. Sargent had taken a non-suit in
his action for damages against the
county.
Report of County Attorney Hancock
on boundary line between Galveston and
Brazoria counties was adopted and the
county surveyor instructed to stake off
same in conjunction with the surveyor
of Brazoria county, the line to be
marked with iron monuments in place
of marble.
Report of jury of view on road from
Dickinson to Clear Lake was adopted
and $60 damages recommended by the
jury, allowed to persons owning prop-
erty on the line of road.
The court will meet at 12 o’clock to-
morrow and audit the monthly bills.
Counterfeiting Case.
United States District Attorney Han-
nay of Hempstead was in Galveston
to-day. He came here to represent the
federal government in the case of the
United States vs. Hewlitt, a counter-
feiting case.
George Hewlitt of Glidden was re-
cently arrested on a charge of counter-
feiting nickels. Hewlitt’s step-son had
been arrested for passing counterfeit
nickels. He had nine of them in his
possession when arrested, and swore,
at the examination, that George Hew-
litt made them and gave them to him.
Hewlitt was examined before United
States Commissioner Byrne to-day and
held for the federal grand jury.
Fof the famous charge of the light
brigade at Balakava only one Victoria
cross was awarded to an officer. It was
given to Lieutenant A. R. Dunn, who
saved the life of a non-commissioned
officer by cutting down three Russian
lancers and later in the battle also
saved the life of a private. The deco-
ration was recently sold at public auc-
tion in London
Hanna & Leonard,
Grain and Hay,
Strand, bet. 24th and 25th.
Say! If you want rubber stamps,
stencils, seals, brass checks, etc., write ;
to Jos. V. Love, 2225 Strand, Galveston, runs for the jparble-cutter, insisting
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carrier, 50 cents per mouth in advance.
—Keep a dish of water on the back ot
a tight stove, to purify the air.
—To take coal oil stains out of the
floor. If left alone the stain will come
out of itself, but if in a hurry cover
with thick blotting paper and rub a hot
iron over it.
—Dried Beef Salad.—-To one-quarter
of a pound of shaved beef, slice a small
onion very fine. Sprinkle with pepper
and add one-fourth of a cup of vinegar.
—Ohio Farmer.
—It is well to remember, for use in
cases of illness where the burning thirst
of the patient cannot be assuaged by
cracked ice or water, that a teaspoon-
ful of glycerine will afford prompt and
comparatively long relief.
—Hardwood floors, if polished with
shellac or varnish, may be first washed
with soap and water, and then thor-
oughly rubbed with a cloth wet with
oil and turpentine or kerosene and
water; this will make them look as well
as when new. Floors finished by the
waxen method of our ancestors may ba
revived by the use of turpentine.
—Mayonnaise or Kippered Herring.—
Open a can of herring and free from
oil, skin and bones; cover the bottom
of a dish with sliced tomatoes; range
on these the herring; lay slices of toma-
toes about the edge, and pile thick
mayonnaise on the center, garnishing
with capers and stoned olives.—Chris-
tian Inquirer.
—Sunshine Cake.—Cream one cup of
butter; add two cups of sugar and beat
to a cream; then add one cup of milk,
the yolks of eleven eggs beaten very
light, and three cups of fiour, which
has been sifted three times; beat until
light and smooth, add two tablespoon-
fuls of baking powder; turn into a
greased Turk’s-head, and bake forty-
five minutes in a moderately quick
oven.—Prairie Farmer.
—Spiced Currants.—Eight pounds
ripe currants, five pounds sugar, one
pint vinegar, two ounces each allspice,
cloves and stick cinnamon. Boil nearly
or quite an hour. I prefer to boil the
fruit alone for half an hour, breaking
it slightly until the juice runs suffi-
ciently to prevent burning; then add
the sugar, etc., and cook until it jellies.
The spices may be tied in a thin muslin
bag if one prefers. Spiced elderberries
are made in the same way, except that
less sugar is required, four pounds to
nine pounds of fruit being about the
right proportion.—Country Gentleman.
—An ingenious mother tells in the
Philadelphia Times of her method to
induce good behavior in her little fam-
ily: “We have a quantity of bright
colored stars, and when the children
have been good all day we paste one of
the stars below each of their names,
which we have written on white paper
and fastened in a convenient place on
the nursery wall. When they have
been better than usual, or done a gen-
erous or very thoughtful act, we paste
on a gold-colored star, and you cannot
imagine how they work for them and
how disappointed they are at night
when they get no star at all.”
—Roast Beef.—Select a nice piece
suitable for roasting; place it in the
roasting pan and pour over it enough •
boiling water to cover the pan to the
depth of half an inch. This will sear
over the surface of the meat and the
juices will be retained. Sprinkle liber-
ally with salt and pepper and over this
slice an onion; then place immediately
in a hot oven, allowing one hour for
every two pounds of meat. Baste fre-
quently. When done remove from the
pan and add boiling water to that in
the pan sufficient for gravy, and a pinch
of salt. Thicken with flour or corn-
starch moistened in water. What is
left from dinner is very nice served for
tea or lunch, sliced thin and garnished
with slices of lemon.—Ohio Farmer.
Rapid calculation drills each morn-
ing at the Galveston Business Univer-
sity are alone worth the price of tui-
tion. Call for terms.
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Immense Size To WHicli They Grow
in Java.
For the last one hundred years there
have been traditions of huge snakes in
the interior of Java one hundred feet
long and as big around as a hogshead,
and our native hunters report these
from time to time. Fifty years ago a
man named Tait, a Scotsman, started
with a party of natives to hunt up the
pythons. He nevei- returned, and was
supposed to have been killed by some
wild animal. He must have been a
giant, as I have seen one of his guns,
weighing thirty pounds, and carrying
two-ounce balls.
About a year ago a captain in the
English army named Coles landed here,
accompanied by a party of Sikh sol-
diers. He was soon joined by Lieut.
Ayres of the British navy, and it was
announced that they were after the
big snakes. Capt. Coles was a remark-
able shot, and at four hundred yards
would knock over a parrot every time.
Their course was up the Dowan, a
stream running clear for fifty miles
and then spreading over a swamp for
one hundred miles, almost to the south
coast, and alive with man-eating croco-
diles. They had with them several
donkeys, and one night, encamped on
the river bank, one of the animals gave
a tremendous squeal, and the English-
man, looking out, saw a huge gray
mass sliding over the ground and gave
the alarm. Two crocodiles had come
ashore and seized a donkey. Both were
shot; they were hideous reptiles, thirty
feet long, with jaws capable of cutting
a man in two. Next morning they
went to work and killed thirteen, one
thirty-six feet long.
In a few days they reached the heart
of this submerged region. Snakes
thirty-five feet long were shot, but the
giants kept out of sight. On land the
brush was very thick, and wild hogs
and deer make well defined paths from
one watercourse to the other, and
along these the pythons watch for
game.
One morning a native hunter came
in and reported a big snake near. Two
hundred yards away the Englishman
saw swinging between the trees a ser-
pent almost as big in the middle as a
barrel. Its back was broken by a shot,
and after much trouble it was taken in
and skinned. It was forty-one feet,
long. Such a snake would crush a man'
in five seconds.
They had now reached the end of
their journey: the river ended in a
mass of vegetation so dense as to make:
further progress impossible, so a camp'
was made on the river bank and next:
day the guides brought in the head and
a few feet of the trunk of a serpent
that had evidently been eaten by croco-
diles. The head was nearly three feet
long and indicated an enormous length.
It weighed sixty pounds and was a
hideous object. It had no doubt be§n
caught in the water and bitten to death.
Early one morning an alarm was
given by one of the Sikh soldiers. He
pointed to semething glistening in the
water half a mile away. Through the
glass it was seen to be a snake swim-
ming. The raft was at once manned
by the two Englishmen and their gun
bearers. Seen above the water
the reptile’s head was as large
as a barrel and shown like bright cop-
per. It was evidently making for a
flat, sandy place near shore and the
hunters waited. Part of the body was
now exposed, and the men were amazed.
It wag at least three feet thick, and as
the long coils glided over the sand it
seemed to get bigger.
“Now, men, break its back.”
Four shots were fired and three went
through the body of the snake. A hiss
like a steam escape and the head arose
twenty feet in the air, while the tail
beat the water like a flail. Suddenly it
turned, and the next moment a tre-
mendous blow smashed the raft. All
got into the water and made for shore
but one Sikh. He stopped to secure his
rifle, and again the tail descended and
he was struck fairly, his back and ribs
being smashed into fragments. He
never made a sound. Another shot
back of the head and the monster drop-
ped. It took six hours to get the body
on land, and its length was ninety-four
feet. The skin was treated with palm
ashes by the natives, an excellent pre-
servative. There is no record of such a
snake ever being killed before.
Fever now attacked the party, and it
took them three weeks to get home.
They had been out three months.—
Philadelphia Times.
“This
Picture
and that”
For a long time Mr.
John Barbee, of 117
Main St., Durham,
N. C. was a victim
to Dyspepsia___He
was advised to take
Brown’s
Iron
Bitters.
On July 10, 1894, he
wrote a grateful letter in
which he said:
“I have used Brown’s
Iron Bitters for two
months for Dyspepsia
and it has cured me."
He does not mind
it’s being known_
perhaps his letter
may help YOU to a
cure! This remedy
has helped thous-
ands duringthe past
20 yrs. Will you
try it? It does not
constipate and it
WON’T INJURE
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A Procession of Bent Forms Moving
to Martial Music.
Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 11.—Forty thou-
sand men who fought to save the union
marched through the cities of Pitts
burg and Allegheny to-day. Old famil-
iar war tunes fill the air, and the music
made hearts beat as thirty years ago.
But while stepping bravely, they could
not straighten their bent forms nor
conceal their gray hair and furrowed
cheeks.
They carried no heavy rifles with
glittering bayonets, but aided aged
limbs with walking-canes, with here
and there a crutch. They march no
more beneath yawning muzzle-frown-
ing cannon, but past battery after bat-
tery of bright eyes. Every lot, win-
dow, fire escape and roof top was
crowded, while the sidewalks were
packed solidly from the building line
to the curb.
At 10.30 the parade started from the
historic Monongahela House. First
came company A, Second battalion na-
val reserves, N. G. P., guard of honor
to Commander-in-Chief Adams. Then
followed the departments of the Grand ___ ____ _____
Army, led by Illinois and closed by “I will try.”
Pennsylvania. _ "
The decorations in the two cities were
most lavish. Hardly a dwelling but
had a flag or bunting, while the busi-
ness houses made a gorgeous showing.
This is probably the last time the
veterans will turn out in such force, as
it is contemplated by the Grand Army
officials, in view of the advancing age
of and infirmities of the members, to
abandon this feature of the national
encampment.
Governor Patterson of Pennsylvania
with his staff and a number of noble
men and women from all parts of the
country occupied the reviewing stand
at Allegheny park and saluted each
division.
Arrangements for the comfort of
marchers were excellent. At short
distances apart were stationed emer-
gency hospitals, while all along the
route were men with cool water and
lemonade.
Old Time Baseball.
“I don’t suppose,” says the man who
weighs two hundred and twenty-five,
“that you fellows would believe it if I
told you that one time, and not so
many years ago at that, I was a crack
baseball player. There wasn’t a man
in our county who could play second-
base as well as I could. I went out to
see a game of ball the other day. It
was the first I had an opportunity of
seeing in about ten years. It wasn’t
much like the ball we used to play, I
can tell you.
“I remember one game in particular.
It was between the village nine, the
Hunky Dorys, and a nine chosen from
the hose company. One of the leading
citizens of the village had donated a
silver-mounted rosewood bat and a
silver ball as a trophy, and the Hunky
Dorys and the hose company nine met
to do battle for it. The hose company
nine had some good players, but they
were obliged to fill out with one or two
fellows who didn’t know much about
the game, but who were big and strong
and capable of losing the ball every
time they hit it.
“The pitchers had no knowledge of
curves in those days. They had to
deliver a straight underhand ball and,
while delivering it, they were not al-
lowed to bring their hand above the
knee. Some of them could send in a
pretty swift ball; but it was straight
and once you got the knack of hit
ting it you could bang it all around
the lot. That’s what made the scores
so big. As I was saying, the Hunky
Dorys and the hose company nine met
to fight for the trophy. The game
got along to the ninth inning and the
score stood thirty-one to twenty-seven
in favor of the Hunky Dorys. The
whole town was there to see the game,
and excitement was running pretty
high, as the partisans of the club
were about equally divided.
“One of the hose company men came
to the bat. It was do or die with them
then. They had four runs to make to
tie and five to win. The batter was a
big, broad shouldered marble cutter,
and he caught hold of his bat with
both hands, took a fresh chew of to-
bacco and prepared to knock the cover
off the ball. The pitcher sent in a nice
straight one. There was a sound like
a fat woman falling off a front door-
step and the ball sailed over the fence
and out of sight. The hose company
people yelled like maniaps and the
marble cutter began to make the cir-
cuit of the bases. He ran around and
got home before the ball was found,
although six of the Hunky Dorys were
searching in the grass for it. Then he
started and ran around again. He
went around those bases five times and
then dropped from exhaustion. The
captain of the hose company nine de-
manded that the scorers score five
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