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Helado Mo ípmcé.
-A.
«DEEP WATER A FACT—NOT A PROMISE."
VOL.1.
VELASCO, TEXAS,FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 10.1892.
NO. 158
ABBOT S ILEAIRnUCIOlT
ARE OFFERING
Choice Farming Land
ON UNE OF VELASCO TERMINAL RAILROAD
In Ten, Twenty, Forty and Eighty Acre Tracts at $1B
per Acre. Terms easy.
STRANGE EXPERIENCES.
THERE MAY BE A SILVER LIN-
ING TO THE CLOUD.
How Kaill.v Persons May Ho Mistaken
In the limites of l.overi Ones —
Stories Told lly a Morgue
Keeper.
Keeper White the other clay told the
New York Recorder sorno interesting
bits of tho weird inside history of the
Morgue.
"Away buck in Soptember 180'.'."
said ho "Mrs. Filen Davis, of 2:>1
W est Fourteenth street, had been ex-
pecting a visit from her mother, who
lived in Prov.dence H. I. The day
came and Ellen and her husband were
promptly at the dock to greet Mrs.
Annie McAffrey, for that was her
mother's name. Hut they were doom-
ed to disappointment From letters
it was beyond question that Mrs.
McAffrey had started for Now York.
As tho night wore on tho friends
became so much alarmed that the
polico wore notified.
••Several days passed, and the
anxiety of Mrs. Davis increased, for
in tho meantime she had communi-
cated with Providenco, and had been
informed that her mother had started
for New York on the Sound steamer
of the night belore, as had been ar-
ranged by letter.
"That night next following Mrs.
Davis was reading tho evening paper
when her eyo caught sight of an item
telling of a case of foul play and giv-
ing a description of the victim, a wo-
man. Tho outline of tho dead wo-
man's personality tallied exactly with
that of tho missing Mrs. McAtTery.
Mrs. Davis hurried to tho morgue.
The body of the victim was shown to
her. She was greatly affected. She
fairly swooned, but recognized tho
■corpse as that of her mother.
'•¿Mrs. Davis hurriedly saw an un-
dertaker. The cakes that she had
preparod for the reception, tho wed-
ding baked moats, as it were, becamo
the dishes of a houso of mourning.
That night tho family sat down todic*
ner. It was a sorrowful dinner at
best. Next day occurred the funeral.
Again the family gathered about tho
table. They wero sitting thus, talk-
ing over the sad events of the last
few days. All tho virtues of the lato
departed wore rehearsed with tho
lingering memory of a fond and fa-
vored child-.
"Suddenly the door burst opon.
Who should walk in but Mrs. Mc-
AtYrey herself, bag and baggage in
hand, alive, well, overjoyed to be ic-
stored to her friends, although she
Iftul been delayed for several days
past. Picture to yourself the scone,
it is worthy of a romance. Then
Mrs. McAffrey told hor strange story.
I do not recall its details, but it was
sensational to a degree. It all ended
happily, however, for she was home
again. Then it was Mrs. McAffrey's
turn to be astonished. She was told
of the events of the last few days. It
was as though she had come back
from the grave."
At this point in the narrative a
policeman came in, boa ing in his
hand a small basket It was only a
dead child found in the dump at the
foot of Twelfth street Keeper White
filled out a small card, placed the
basket op a chair, and. apparently
unconcerned by tho horrible spectacle,
sat down and composedly resumed his
narrative.
"Cnde- head of May 13, 1891,"
he continued, • ■! read the following in
the records of tho morgue:
•ti p. m.—Man from One Hundred
and Fifty-fifth stroet and Eighth
avenue; age '28; 5 feet 8 inches high;
sandy hair; smooth face; gray oyos;
good tooth; wore a pea jacket of a
dark gray mixed goods; vest same
material; brown and gray striped
pants; blue flannel overshirt; white
knit undershirt; white cotton socks:
elastic gaiters; white and yellow sus-
penders; no property.
•••Recognized as John Clark by
Ada, his wife,1
"This," went on Keeper White, 'Is
one of the strangest caaes we ever
had on the records. A body wass
j brought to us from tho placo above
mentioned It was all cut to piecoj
| by tho Eighth-avenuo olovatod train,
i It appoarod to be a case of suicide.
I and tho theory was that tho man had
' deliberately jumped in front of the
! e tig i no.
I "As soon as Ada Clark read of tho
accidont she was struck by the fact
: that tho unknown dead wore clothes
identical with thoso of her good-for-
nothing husband John H. Clark.
Sho had been his wife for some timo,
but. according to hor story, was far
from happy.
••Next day Ada Clark appearod at
tho Morgue She domanded tho priv-
ilege of viewing tho corpse. Sho was
sure it was Joha and proceeded
promptly to call the dead man all
sorts of abusivo names, declaring,
among other things, that ho never
i was the least use to hor in life, and
that sho was glad that he was dead at
last for now sho would bo free from
her misery. John, sho said, was a
hard drinker, a poor provider and a
shiftless, useless. la>y husband. la a
rage sho departed, declaring that the
city could send her husband to Pot-
tor's field. for sho washed hor hands
of tho entiro affair.
"Noxt day sho was subpon:i'd to ap*
pear at tho coronor's ollico to toll
what sho know of tho mysterious dis-
appearance of her husband. Tho cor-
oner called witness after witness, but
Ada did not appear. Tho patience of
the coroner was about worn out with
waiting, when, suddonly. the door
opened, and a smiling-faced woman
swept proudly Into the room leaning
upon the arm of a young man.
•• *lt is John,1 she said. My dear
husband, John, whom 1 lovo so much.
It seems like a miracle. He has como
back to me. lam so happy."
LL*.
The Smallest Inhabited Island.
The smallest inhabited Island in the
world is that on which the Eddystono
light houso stands. At low water it is
! thirty feet in diameter; at high
water the light house, whoso dinme-
i ter at the baso is twentv-oight
| and three-fourths feet, completely
covers it
| It is inhabited by threo porsons. It
lies nino miles off the Cornish coast
and fourteen miles southwest of Ply-
mouth breakwater.
j Flat hoi mo, an Island in tho
British Channel, is only a mile and a
half in circumferonco, but. consisting
mostly of rich pasturo land, supports
a farm house, besides tho light house,
with a revolving light 1.00 feet above
' the sea.
There are about 100,000 islands,
large and small, scattered over tho
oceans. This country alone lias TjOO
around its coasts, there are 3t¡ó in tho
Bay of Hlo do Jetioiro. 1'!. 000 between
Madagascar and India, and some 1,'JUO
off tho eastern coast of Australia, be-
tween its mainland and Now Guinoa.
—Albany Argus.
Put Your Trust In Trust*.
••I see they have got a safe «trust
now."
"That's whore they're wise. Peo-
ple don't care to trust in anything
that isn't safo."
"You don't seem to understand.
! What I mean is a safe trust."
"Don't I understand tho English
'language? You say a safe trust and
1 you mean a safe trust Well I don't
; contradict you. I approve of it I've
been in tho grocery business and 1
know it isn't always safe to trust—'"
, "But my dear sir—"
) "Nor, for that matter, in any othct
j kind of business. Well. I'm glad
¡ they've got something safe to trust in
i at last Fino morning ain't it"—N
Y. Press.
Speaking From Experience.
Seeker—So you have been farming
i many years in this soctlon. and know
j the peculiarities of the soil pretty welL
What do you consider the hardest
thing to raise on your farm?
Meeker—Tho money to run it—-
Boston Courier.
JACK KIRKUP.
OTany Candidate* C'haae It Vainly.
Visitor—Well, Tommy, what are
you going to bo when you grow up?
Tomms—I'spect I'll follow tho al-
derman business, same as paw does. —
Chicago Tribune.
A Pen Portrait of the Typical Tlorder
KliertfT.
There was only one policeman to on-
forco tho law in a territory tho size of
Rhode Island. He was quito as re-
markable in Ills way as any other de-
velopment of that embryotic civiliza-
tion. His namo was Jock Kirkup, and
all who knew him spoke of him us be-
ing physically tho most superb exam-
ple of manhood in J,!.o dominion. Six
feet and threo inches in height with
tho chest neck, and limbs of a elant
his throe hundred pounds of weight
wore so exactly his complement as to
givo him the symmetry of an Apollo.
He was good-looking, with tho beauty
of a round-faced, good-natured boy,
and his thick hair fell in a cluster of
ringlets over his forehead and upon
his nock. No knight of Arthur's circle
can havo been moro picturesque a fig-
ure in the forest than this "Jack."
He was as neat as a dandy. Ho wore
high boots and corduroy knickerbock-
ers, a flannel shirt and a sack-coat
and rodo his big bay horse
with the ease and grace
of a Slcobeleff. He smoked like a fire
of green brush, but had never tasted
liquor in his life. In a do/en years
he had slept moro frequently in tho
open air. upon pebble bods or In
trenches In tho snow* than upon ordin-
ary bedding, and he exhibited, in his
graceful movements, his sparkling
oyes and ruddy cheeks, his massive
frame and his imperturbable good
nature, a degree of health and vigor
that would seem insolent to the aver-
age New-Yorker. Now that the rail-
road was building, ho kept over on the
trail along what was called "the
right of way"—going from camD to
camp to "jump" whisky peddlers and
gamblers and to quell disordor—ex-
cept on pay-day, once a month, when
ho staid at Sprout's Landing.
The echoes of his fearless behavior
and lively adventures rang in every
gathering. The general tenor of the
stories was to the effect that he usually
gave one warning to evll-doera. and if
they did not he&d that he "cleaned
them out" Ho carried a revolver,
but never had used it. Even when
tho most notorious gambler on our
border had crossed over into "Jack's"
bailiwick the policeman depended upon
his fists. Ho had mot tho gambler
and had "advised" him to tako tho
curs noxt day. Tho gambler, in re-
ply, had suggested that both would get
along moro quietly if each minded his
own affairs, whereupon Kirkup had
said, "You hear me; tako tho cars
out of here to-morrow." Tho little
community (it was Donald, B. C., a
very rough place at the timo) held its
breathing for twenty-four hours, and
at tho approach of train-time was on
tiptoo with strained anxiety. At
twenty minutes before tho hour tho
policeman, amiable and easy-going as
ever in appearance, began a tour of
tho houses. It was in a tavern that
he found tho gambler.
"You must take tho train." said he.
"You can't mako me," replied the
gambler.
There wore no more words. In two
minutos the giant was currying the
limp body of the rutilan to a wagon, in
which he drovo him to jail. There ho
washed tho blood off the gumblor's faco
nnd tidied his collar and scarf. From
there the eouplo walked to tho cars,
whero they parted amicably.
"I had to be a 111 tie rough," said
Kirkup to tho loungers at the station,
"because ho was armed like a pin-
cushion, and I didn't want to have to
kill him.Harper's Magazine.
A Little Silver Croa*.
• -Tho best protection a young wo
man can have in this city," «aid a big
policeman on the Broadway squad,
New York, "is one of those little sil-
ver crosses that the King's Daughters
wear. I've noticed that nowadays the
professional masher will look first at
the bosom of a woman's dress and if
that little cross is dangling from a
buttonhole ho passes her by without
even a stare. It's the same way on
street cars as on the street The
young woman who wears one of those
badges has got the whole oar' .id of
men to take care of her find jsnnp on
the fellow that dares to annoy her.
The eross is getting to be looked on
with tho same respect and deference
as a nun's garb. As a safeguard it
boats tho uverago policeman all hol-
low. '
Tlionaanda of Tena.
Meteors of various slzoa reach tho
earth In many places. The largest
known is that which fell on tho plains
of lncuman, in South America, which
weighed about fifteen tons. A recent
calculation shows that the increase of
the earth's weight annually, from
meteorlo sources, is about ninety thou*
sand tons.
Perry & Northrup
THE-
Oldest Real Estate Men
AT THE MOUTH OF THE BRAZOS RIVER.
Ten oholce 10-acre tracts, one-half mil* from Velasoo, for fruits nnd
vegetables. Soil rich, mellow, sandy loam; at f£0 per aero; one-third cask,
balance one and two years.
NICKNAMES.
Mi
Musi lleur II livcii Soerutc* Wat
Culled ..Old Mill-None.
j Tho origin of tho word as well as the
J exact date of appearance of tho cus-
tom of • nicknaming" is unknown.
Such names are us old at least as tho
most vonorable chroniclos, for, upon
diving into unciont history, wo havo
no trouble at all in proving that Plato
was called tho "Attic Bee" and Soc-
rates "Old Fiat-Nose." There isn't
tho least doubt but that many of o ;r
surnames eomo from nicknames ap-
plied to our ancestors, sui h, for In-
stance. as "Dollarhlde." "Oxenrlder,"
••Bright," "Light foot," "Wulklng-
shaw," "Redhead.'1 "Longman."
"l.ong'ollow," etc. Julius C t sar was
properly styled "Baldhead," and even
the third Ramosos is said to have been
known by an Egyptian word which sig-
nifies "Limpy." No one has been
able to escape tho blighting or benign
inlluenco of tho nickname. Kings
queons, philosophers, divines, states-
men, as well as many other ominont
person^ havo been made to prosper
or suffer by having some appropriate
or ridiculous sobriquet added a.tor tho
lawful bestowal of tho • •Christian"
name.
Boccaccio was styled tho "Prince of
Story-Tellers, " and Crichton enjoyed
tho designation of "Admirable" be-
cause of bis extraordinary learning.
On one occasion every member of tho
British Houso of Commons was eithor
called "The Boa t," or •< ♦>( , " owing
to the number of its members and to
the fact that it. is tho number of tho
mysterious "Beast" refeirad to in
Revelations xlii, 1*.
Cromwell, of all men, has had, per-
haps, most nicknames applied to him.
He was known as "Old ( opperfaco,"
"Tho Browor." "His Noseshlp,"
"Old Noll," "Saul" and a score of
others.
Wellington, Napoleon, soverul of
our American generals, as well as
many military commanders of ancient
times, eomo in for their share of
nicknames. It would tako tho wholo
of the "Notes of the Curious" depart-
ment to givo tho nicknames of famous
persons without a word of historical
or critical comment After ¡ill this is
said, it must bo acknowledged that
no one knows the origin of tho word.
Ono authority says that "nick" is to
shorten or cut off a namo or anything
else: another believes that it means
"dovil-namo!"
Couldn't llinturli Her liqnniilinliy.
It takes a groat doal to disturb tho
oven tenor of certain well-ordered and
sereno minds, says vVido Awake, in
illustration of which tho following in-
cident, is given: An old lady living
in a certain New Knglund village was
going down a fiitrht of back stairs
when sho foil and wont rolling to the
very bottom of tho stairs, whero sho
burst open tho door and came rolling
out into tho kitchen. Her servant
girl. June, screamed in affright, and
various members of tho family came
running into tho kitchen, breathless
with alarm. Before any of them
could spoak a word the old lady lifted
herself to a sitting position on the
floor and, holding ono finger up wa n-
ingly and sniffing at, the air, said
calmly: "Juno, them biscuits in tho
ovon aro burning, and I know it!"
Htiaalan Influence In Peraln.
For several years past tho Influence
of Russia upon Persia has kept in-
creasing, Kusssan merchants aro
competing ovorywhoro successfully
with tho Britishers, and have obtained
from tho Persian government con.
cessions whoro thoso of tho British
wero rendered value,oss or withdrawn.
Now, Russia has succeeded in gaining
ascendency in the Persian army; a
number of Russian officers of reservo
have obtained leave of the c/ar to go
to Toheran. tho capital of Persia for
tho purpose of instructing tho Persian
army, ollicers as well as soldiers
.flore Information.
Tommy—I'aw, w'y do they call tak-
ing a man's money from him "bleed-
ing him?"
Mr. Figg—Bocause It robs him of
his circulating medium.— Indianapolis
Journal
OUR SOUTHERN NEIGHBORS.
Civilization, Development and Cuitar
Compare Well With Ours.
"Tho South American systems of
education have boon framed upon tho
plan of ours, and in scvorul of them
ovon moro radical moasuros havo been
adoptod to Increase tho intelligence
of tho pooplo," says William Kleroy
Curtis in an article on "The Progress
of the South American Republics" in
tho Now England Mogazlno. "Their
universities aro of a standard that
comparo woll with any in this coun-
try, and In most of the republics tho
attendance of children at tho public
schools is compulsory. They havo
inoro newspapers in proportion to
tholr population than wo havo, and
somo of tholr periodicals aro of a
high order; they encourage art and
music, and overy city has Its museums
and galleries of paintings- Their
shops uro tilled with tho most modern
articles of merchandise; tho homes of
tho rich are sumptuously furnishod.
and thoir incomcs aro expended for
luxurios to tho dogroo of oxtruva-
ganco. Tho stoumship? that connect
their ports with Kuropo aro ulways
crowdod with passongorm but tho
luck of transportation facilities has
prevented them from visiting tho
United States as frequontly and In as
grout numbers. The national dobts
of tho Latin American ropublics havo
boon Incurred for the purpose of con-
structing railways and other internal
improvements, which in sovoral of
them huvo certainly anticipated the
nocessltlos of the population and be-
como burdens upon tho public treas-
uries. But in most of them Immigra-
tion from Kuropo is rapid und perma-
nent and tho development of natural
resources will soon onablo tho railway
linos to become self-supporting."
THE EFFECT OF CLOTHES.
It Im Mneh lletter Than the Klfeet of No
ClotheN.
Two mon wore watching a parado
of uniformed men from tho window
of a hotoL
"Men in uniform all look alike,"
said ono of them. "It is our elotlioa
and mnnnor of wearing them that
givo an Individuality to our appear-
ance. "
"Yes, you are right" said tho other/
"as I had good roason to know ono
day last suminor. I was up in Wis-
consin on a hunting trip. I have a
hunting dog that is also a splendid
watch-dog. One day, having grown
hot and tired. I came to a nicc shady
bend in tho stream whoro I thought I
would onjoy a swim. While I was In
tho water I noticed that my dog was
Btundlng guard over my personal
effects. Completing my bath I started
toward my clothes, whon my dog gave,
mo warning that it would bo danger-
ous for mo to approach too closely. I
called und coaxed and tbroatoned, but
all in vain. Ho boldly stood his
ground, soomlng to be fully convinced
that I was not tho rightful owner of
tho property ho was watching over.
I might have been thero yet watting
to get my clothes had not a compan-
ion with whom I was hunting come
slong and enabled mo to assume my
usual appearance, so that my own
faithful dog recognized ma Tba
clothes do make the man."
••I've hoard that story before," said
the first
"Woll why didn't you say so before
I told It?"
"I didn't know it till you told It."
She Tried Them.
Mrs. Young Husband: "Dear, you
will havo to give mo $10 extra this
week." Mr. Young Husband: "Why,
Clara! Did 1 not givo you the neces-
sary amount fl*? That is $3 a day."
Mrs. Young Husband: "Ye^ but I
havo been trying some of thoso reci-
pes publishod in tho papers for keep*
ing a family on $<5 a week."—Kate
Field's Washington.
Tommy's Toilet.
Tommy (inquiringly): "Mamma, is
this hulr-o 1 in this bottle?" Mam-
ma: "Morcy, no! That's mucilage."
Tommy (nonchalantly): "I guess
that's why I can't got my hat off."—•
flood News.
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