The Austin Weekly Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1885 Page: 2 of 4
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STATESMAN.-
AUSTIN. Tl.XAS.
nan. w iirr nuiium
ably in advance.
Inv.-iria-
wlll be stopped when the term m
. a n rM. unl s ntnerwis - oruereu.
opped
uanitine tacl-anures-i '-re rcquC5
e oiu as wcu as uc ttiivi
XII IC AMI tOKP -IIIATIO-N HILL.
The Statesman :ias heretofore dis-
cussed this bill and it hns not changed
its views in regard to its dangerous
character as applicable to a great un-
developtd empire like Texas. We have
heretofore bbown how the state's
..rrmortv values were increased by
r.iil .vav construction accomplished
the time to subscribe for The
d Weeklt Statfsma.h. The Daily
Kt;atil ut Tlift '
s only morning paper p"u""1" -
(viflco tain each day during ine
alone through corporate pow-i.
hivo shown that in 1871
tixable values ' cf Texas
to o04.jj: n"
We
e
following live years
the
amount
in the
values in-
heicS.3.aturefUuprociu.of tb-t creased at the averse " ' "
1.1. i.t i.ImI tnoyr increased facili- .: tu-oritv millions 01 dollars dC-
r(?lvinn the 'atert new fn.in all part ot b - . m 0319373221 ;
?... win nv.ke our Daily ciual t any nuau ..
.. i . .1. tduiu iivi vea H lAiinai
n the stale. anwuuiins mo-.-j -
r.ce or our weeioy na iiildins was slowly progressing m
dollar per year wmcn instead of un-
elie: pest weekly paper Kiyiub j.eA-. 011.
1 1 - j.... ...... In Ilia tut". . . .... .!.! .Im.olnr.TMfnr.. llftaUSe
amount oi n-auiujs ma - j (jerZO;ii "i .
unsettled regions uto8
IIX V"""'l . .
. . ... . . : .. nA1l. ...... LT l.i u (Hill-
wonKiv i. ill euiiii" -...-. -
ii lorin. iuu irwrtuiuii "
. . 1.. .......tr .iilltV
sta'i- to whom we mane me w""'s
every person who will send us a
of ten ?u'9crlbere fot our Weekly or
Tor ou Dally accompanies Dy me
h nfn witti a noe uiihji
ttthflwliiKinbuiatypo tlie nanie oi e?iry
U2ttce iu the state.
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Idress STATESMAN I'UBLlSHINd U.
WM.r. UA.NK3
President and Manager
valve
pra
... imiil'illYli. 1885
i'ESTEUDAY English detectives
visited in the Tomb3 2s ew 1 ork the
u.mI ivhn Rlali hed I'neiaD.
lullLpr-w(i"
if W UL nK
j on. i nriiiip in ii'eianuiuuib
: ...ii .. .i .... ... i r. ji mw smNMii
eviucuny u ijicwl
and of the name otripe as ine iwo
'niurdeiers whom Eichard III em-
- ...... nritK fVta vnnnff
. - -
jio Tower.
r- 1. nn.l
Tuere is tfSuse lor Bua"1
j it.. ;v tKia n.Tsmirv. ine ucm-
UVUULU&WW --
ocratic party is the
. through which it is to be save
th strains and excf sses which bree
destructive sentiment in Europe. The
American fcoolalists and dynamiters
should have no quarter; they should
i finnn bv as they desire to do to
others be given no quarter
KiouuEi can not lie. Probably the
most hopeful sign of the times is the
japld and continued decrease of com-
mercial failures. These for the past
'week In the United States and Can'
ada amounted to 340 against 411 two
-nri-a am This iuO icates. It it
means anything the gradual revival
of business from the recent panicny
depression.
Rtttabaga says carpenters in his
towu only get SI a day. and he thinks
c i hn r.otu tuiltees should be
o..noi;u.i with that amount. It ttie
. rvunA wna rtn Hired to UO auty IU
U1U " " .
t.h ntAt ;it. sUcU Willies lb wuumii b
l.wu lif..rH he would nave uaucii
on his bieeches big enough to cover a
iii- i.i.tai iiAliai Herald.
. xt. ho. Drouauiy. imvou
- . : . ... i
been smart enough t J proviue uiuiacii.
with whole pantaloons outside ot per
diem.
IT there is any truth in the letter of
;e M.ihdi to the English officers un
der the white flag Generd Gordon is
alive. If so he has prouably saved
himself by becoming a good and de-
Voted ilohammedan attending
mosque saying his prayers mrte uwca
daily and drinking no whisky. Indeed
in another message to the English the
Mahdi boasts that Gordon is now a
good Mussulman.
Ababi Bey the exiled Egyptian
patriot is in Ceylon where he is con-
ducting a school for boys. lie ha3
succeeded too in uniting the Moham-
medan community which wa3 divid-
ed by .bitter feuds. Arabi's offense
was love for his country and had
- England rot interfered he co"uld have
saved Egypt from its present condi-
tion. It is thought England is reap-
ing her reward the end of which may
b related when Wolseley as well as
Gordon is overpowered probably
slaughtered.
rfw v'P tYta mns' nrl n il ra hi ft uulilica-
1- ... V J w ...
lay is "Bancroft's Analy
sis of the American System or uov-
ernment." It contains a concise his-
tory of the origin and progress of civ-
ilization the relations of the old world
to the free institutions of the new;
the establishment and growth of the
English colonies and of the United
" States of America. All facts and sta-
tistics are taken from official sources
and the work may be pronounced re-
liable in all particulars. The work
should be in the hands of all students
--of his ory. In truth every reading
American should become familiar
with its pages. .
Tub hanging of the negro murderer
'atFranKlin Robertson county by a
. mob niht before last is notice served
upon the courts in that section that
getting murderers clear on mere legal
quibbles is "played out." According
to our home special the reason for the
action of the mob was that the mur-
.1 I nnl. nrjnlil IA n'H'U.'l 1 iTT t Vl Q T U'J
. . . . . . ii. .
of being unaer Hge. ja.b uy iu iue
negro will not waj :ay and kill any
more white peddlers and others of his
stripe in that section will bo apt to
think twice before doing so. Mob
law is harsh and generally dangerous
butUstffect in cases like Ilawkine
cannot but be salutary both on the
criminally inclinjd and the tender-
hearted judges as well as spoony
jurors.
i . . T . . I .amMie
! ana liiiKemcu
opi ned up by penetrating railway
lines was doing little more than un-
dergoing natural advancement; how
in 1S7S tailw ty building h. d stopped
and the increase in vali esbroughUhe
sum total ot assessments to only S303-
202424; how la 1879 with only a little
building on one line of rail way .values
reached to only 830411)31(53; hnv in
isxii with onlv a little work on one or
two lines valnes wer.t to 8311470730;
hr railway building then revived
ami for 1881 we see that the state's
taxable wealth reached to$3ouuouw;
1882 to S4iaa2)4i; auu m
ii
.hfn three great rau-
lines were penetrating weai.
tv tn Su27.537.b'J0. Two
of these lines were not completed un
lure of a compromise wit'n what i-
Itlt to be a depraved principle of Io-
nian nature; but as it is necessary to
rogu'a'o what w e cannot coerce M'.
Lenox prcbibly feels lhat this is the
best U a '4 can bi done. A proper li-
cer.se law tan be made t j sunw.nd th
condi:ct" of gambling institutions
with such s:ife-uards as to destroy
I many of tha worst features ot tne
practice. If the proprietors or con-
auctois !' garni ling-Louses are re-
niiirfd to carrv on their business iu
the least public manner to a.'okl ;
cheating and swindling devices to ;
exclude minors from their houses !
then the practice will be shorn of j
sume of its evil fe ttures. Bjnds may
be entered into for the observance of i
these require nients. By these means
are enlisted the gamblers themselves j
for the enforcement of the law as its i
violation by irresponsible parties will j
be to the iuiurv of those w ho regard
i n i: iiv.s.
A il. i i d- W s killed ia Millsov
last wetk.
G fiord the irrenressib
ii visiting
.Ccunly Bmner
lull' do.
Bi'eLam is toh.ive a ctiett ndi-roat'.
lhe Brown
bo-jute h.
Recently haii fell at Cameron lare
as a chestnut.
Fishburn is still at the head of the
Mexia Ledgi r.
Mutt Mnre:i. the man who ran awny
with he 14-y.'r old daughter of Mr.
Slugietou of S ia S:a cour-ty a
: ew d sys us.-) as arrested o?i a charge
of kidnapping. After a pn-liminary
(x.iminiition ho was placed under an
f-b'JO bond to await thrt a.:; ion of the
ymnd j :ii y. 'iii yur'.x si cured a li-
teu eaad whs niiirrif J in Mi-Cullough
county nis wife is wi-hliim and
seems very much devoted to him.
Sd i Acgelo Times-Eaterprise: A
gr:et n e.l in Sm Argeln is a good
d.iiry Not half the families . can be
I supplied bv the single milk cart that
A Lare lo saloon took Un? the other is M.tr.et imes seen on the street. When
iiigL't but was extinguisned.
.'here's a spirit ot rivalry between
Groesbeck and Kosse.
Corsiiana is sacdle l with a new
wetkiy " the Advertistr."
Fearsall has hud another set to with
revolvers and liowie-knives.
Work is to be resumed on the ( ath-
. : .1. I. ut
the law." The Gazttte answers ob- ull cnun.ii a- v aco.
a revival is eointr on auioi k iuc
in
1883
way
eru
. . .-.1 n.'.nil QT1 1 1 V
(il durinir tnat; year.auu ua-.-j
the railwiy boom not yet ended the
assessments in 18S4 reached $wmuoiv
in i These tifrures applied to the an-
ferent vears in which railway build-
ivst was not progressing and those in
which it was tell a wonoeriui uue ua
to the influence of railways upon the
progress snd development of lexas
The history of countries demonstates
i.mre stroLfflv &till their influence
is was the work of corporaiuiss
tettr-even to-encourage
it measure
was done.
iniik slls readily at sixty cents a gal
IjD. we do not see how any one engag-
ing ia the dairy business could fail to
make it very profitable.
iioiibaui News: "Last Friday morn-
ing at theridence of W. A. Evans
Mrs. James Monks slipped i-R the ice
and fell to the frozen ground sustain
The town ot Colorado is agitating i inj a serious dislocation of the lef i
for water works.
Dr. Wdi. C;iry Crane oi Independ
ence is quite ill.
four yi-ars of the war. i.tv-r used a
stronger word t !. n "dog gone it." It
was not until tli close of the wur
hewrver that Grant we.it iuto poll-
tics and Wall street i
The past office department issued
1G8000UOO of postal cards in the l;Lst
six months. We pity the postal clerks
who are obliged to read the missives
inscribed thereon.
Pulque the Mrxican natiouul drink
is made of the fermented milk of the
cactus. It looks like skim milk and
tastes like yeast. It only erts two
cents a quart and ten cetits vt ill make
a man as drunk as a naooti. It leaves
no head the next morning.
The English-American January 17
suggests as a compromise to toe fiiend-
ly controversy between Mr. Vander-
bilt and General and Mrs Grant that
the amount at issue be tumul over
tothe Bartholdi pediment luLd and
. that inscriptions acco !:nfely be
A workmjniau
upper scalioldiug of
fin ploy id on th-.
the Washiniftou
MNNi:r:s ami saint
I V KATE ( I.VDK.
There's a plti tv if s'nners about n the world
We kiow tli.it dnir fi iends but too well:
Arid s me of our hi ighliois. we're sorrv to see.
Are helping the noinlicr tn soel!
As for us :ili : we do no pn lend to be saints
ium exiu'iiy : ou: men we inui say
and
them la a
lo secure what
Such results' as in these years in
building up wealth for Texas it is
necessary to repeat again and again
to make the state what it should be.
Great works requiring the use of
enormous sums of money to complete
them acquire force in these days only
through corporate power. Corporation
has been the goose that has laid gold-
en eggs for Texas and the bird's lay-
ing days are by no means ended unless
tho " governmont decree that
she must fall beneath the ax. As it
is with railway building so it is with
many other enterprises that are devel
oping the tta'A-. Combined cipital
made effective and prut; cted by cor-
j f rate i xistence ia building up waste
i.lacesiu western lexas; is improving
and stuckiug great ranches that con
tribute taxable wealth to the state; it
is boring artesian wells and
growing oases in desert places;
is making the forests of EasternTexas
sources of greai wealth. The day
has not yet coma to kill corporations
The sudden extinction of slavery in
the south set it buck for nearly a life
time. Had its extinction been grad
ual distress would not have been the
immed'ate result of emancipation.
So with corporations; their sudden ex
tinction would retard progress ir.
Texas -for capital necessary
to develop the Ktate ha3
v 'lm brouirht here from abroad
and it must be procured through cor
torate influence. While on this ques-
tion we may be permitted to make an
int fi-Ain a letter iust received in
t..uivv -- J -
this city. It is written by a gentle
man connected with a cattle-eorpora-tion
of. western Texas'" which hf.s
lately borrowed a large amount
of foreijfn . money. He says:
'In ccywtersatioa with Mr. yes-
terday he told me if the bill became
a law in Texas now pending in the
senate to abolish corporations that
it would eventually stop the workings
of every corporation foreign and
local and would effectually put a
quietus on the investment of foreign
capital in the state. . Afterward in
conversation with a large capitalist
from Colorado and largely interested
in New Mexico I learned that the
passage of that bill would make lively
times in those states as all the foreign
capital now seeking investment in
Texas would be diverted to Now
Mexico and Colorado as they Invited
capital into those states under any
and all circumstances in shape of
corporations or otherwise. He was
quite jubilant in the hope the legis-
lature would pass such a law; said
they just needed something of the
kind to call the attention of the capi-
talists to the many inducements held
cut by those states in preference to
Texas." I was not so much alarmed
at his words and position as I
was at Mr. -'a opinion for
which 1 have great respect. That bill
should not become a law as it would
ruin our business and at same time
will place you and all others hold-
ing large properties in such a position
that you will not be able to find any
one to buy. No one man can be found
that waut3 to go in so strong but
where many can be allowed to incor
porate and avoid individual liability
a nroDertv of any value no matter
z c
how large can bu placed."
STRAIGHT OCT GAMBLERS.
The Fort Worth Gazette uses ad-
1
"1
1
... . .i .
jeclions to mis measure uy aiug m
w hat respect is gambling more obnox-
ious to society lhan whisky-selling;
and yet the sale of whisky is
licensed and practiced by almost every
slate in the Union." It might be said
too that the use of whiskey leads lo
almost every other great immoral ex
cess. If these great social evils be
unprevented then it is ctrtainly wise
to make them contribute to the main
tenance of government. License in
all such cases should be very high;
and the penalties for violating and
disregarding such law should be ex-
pdino-lv severe. Through such a
statute the d'rty robbing fakirs
might find their way to the peniten-
tiary where they certainly deserve to
be. .
THE STATE l'OLICE.
Ti.e action of the senate committee
in deciding that the state police shoula
go and recommending instead there-
of a plan which is a reasonable and
just solution jffl-elie-ged necessity
Uer-tne7orce in certain localities is to
I be commended by all lovers of pure
civil government and of eco
nomical administration. The police
has not only been a most
expensive piece of machinery costing
since it was first put in the field under
Thief Davidson millions of dollars
but it has been a crying shame to the
lair name of Texas. The state has by
its establishment and maintenance
been publishing to the world that her
people were not aloue law breakers
but thtit they were openly defying law
seeking not only to evade Us require
ments but to nullify law regarding
statutes as naught and trampling un
der foot the rulings and decisions of
the courts. The virtual declaration
made to the world upon the very ex-
. . . . . ...
istence of this force has oeen tnac
civil law was powerless In Texas and
that through military establishment
alone could the peace of society in
Texas be sustained. It is time
most certainly for Texas to
be relieved from such unwararnted
stain upon its character. Let the
declaration soon go abroad that the
legislature has refused to police the
s'ute has refused to ket-p an armed
force stationed in counties to do that
for which civil officers are elected
and commissioned and bonded to do.and
the enormity of this police measure
will be mora fully comprehended
Wherever this force has been used
it has left a demoralizing influence
behind it; it has taught civil estat
lishments that they are sub
to and must be kept Hlivurs it were.
by military powTms military idea
has beenilfting to civil being and
it ouflx lo lie abandoned ine sen-
committee in deciding agamst the
police.concluded to place a fund at the
disposal of the governor to use when
deemed necessary in sustaining civil
law in employing aid for the civil
authorities. Under this plan there
would be no military establishment
with men eating d; inking- riding
drawing pay and occasionally kicking
up old nick setting to fine example
others sometimes turning criminals
loose for questionable reasons and
bringing discr tlit on the stage's name.
The governor would use aid onlv
when needed and thke our word for
it it would hardly ever be needed; the
expense would be not a tenth what it
now is and Texas would not publicly
seaudahze her own name. The ex
ploits of the state police are not
always creditable as may be evidenced
by the Courtright affair at Fort
Worthand the shatnef ul loss of a com
mand's horses ju3t reported on the
llio Grande. The senate committee
has been wavering since its late con-
clusion and it is said that under press
ure from placeman it may take the
backtrack on its proposition. For
the good name of Texas we do hops it
win remain nrm ana iu in giving
relief. .
MR. CLEVELAND AS A CONsTlTUION-
Al. LAH ltK '
- AN insurance bill introduced by
Senator Houston of Bexar provides-
' that the liability of any insurer under
any policy shall noi be affected nor
cod trolied by anv collateral under.
.standing or -warranty affecting the
risk to the property insured any clause
in such policy to the contrary notwith
Btanding. It also provides that no
-.provision ncr condition limiting the
"Sility of the insurer In any contract
insurance shtdl be valid unless
jiiyed in the policy and in
s of personal property
ich loss shall be prima-
Laniount of the
in all cases
jmpanies
t y days
Wder
of
idi-
lees.
ition of
..ss snail ue Dinning
a the perwtnwcd1 whom sucn loss 13
'ayable whether by transferor origi-
Ul contract unless assented to by
' vih person any provision in any pol-
S to the contrary notwithstanding
-' and no provision cr condition in any
policy whereby the loss is to be in
any manner or extent apportioned be
"n the insurer and the insured bo
Enr-ftha liability of tha insurer
mirably conceived arguments in favor
of license for gaming. It says "When
it has been demonstrated that uncom
promising prohibition of an evil will
not suppress it because of popular
disinclination to enforce the laws
strictly wisdom suggests r compro
mise. An experience of- some years
has taagm the Texas public that our
laws prohibiting camlv'i.g ie-notrw
served. In eyer j ' city and town in
the state of any importance gambling
is carried on openly in some secretly
in-others. Attempts have been made
to break it up but in every instance
the law has been whipped. This is a
lamentable confession but it need not
be withheld." The Gazette refers to
the fact that a strong effort was made
in Dallas to break up gaming
during which . numerous arrests
were made followed with vig-
orous prosecution and -the
imposition of lines yet Dallas is still
a field for professional gaming and will
remain so and our cotemporary says
"a similar result must attend every
movement to eradicate the evil from
any of the cities of thi3 state. While
money can be won at games of chance
"gambling will be carried on either
with the continuance of the law or in
Violation of it." It heartily approves
of the Lenox bill for licensing gam-
bling and declirei this "is .the
olutrrL 'h8 problem." These
Governor Cleveland it is remember
ed created quite a stir and lost consid
erable hold on a certain New York
vote by vetting the bill appropriating
$50000 to the Roman Catholic protec
tory of the city of New "iork. A.
church case against the New York
municipality involving the very s:ime
questions involved in this veto ha3
just been considered by the New York
court of appeals and the decision
shows the governor was acting simply
in obedience to the constitution which
h-j had sworn to support in exercis
ing ' the veto power. In a
paper just published by Judge Cow-
ley it is shown that Governor Cleve-
land anticipated the court of appeals
in arriving at a correct understanding
of the apparently conflicting pro
visions of the New York constitution
relating to such appropriations Money
raised by general taxation can not be
thus appropriate" but money raised
by local taxation may. The writer
ouggests that it is highly creditable to
Mr. Cleveland as a constitutional law
yer that he reasoned this out alone
without a single precedent to guide
him relying upon his own judicial
sense and rejecting the opinion of a
former attorney -general of the state.
The veto in question as said
cost Mr. Cleveland many votes
but . he had taken a solemn
oath that as governor he would sup
port the constitution and all. people
should honor him for having done so
even in face of loss of personal popu.
larity. How great would be his
humiliation to day had he adopted
the opposite course and seen himself
opposed by the unanimous opinion of
the nine judges who compose the New
York court of appeals. The support
era of Mr. Blaine who used his veto
as a weapon against Mr. Clevelandi
would now be the loudest in his com
mendation. The Roman Catholic
judges are in perfect harmony on this
point with their Potestant associate.
Mr. Cleveland is net only an honest will
man Lut a sound con iUtnuontu law
Presbyterians at El Paso.
Laredo is rining for the skating
rink to be reopened.
A 200 cock fight is to come oil in
i Lareuo to morrow so says the Times.
Farmers of Grimes county are going
to plant lor a big crop.
Mrs. Field an estimable lady of
Lockhartdiwi in that town recently.
Uvalds has' what is called the "La-
dies Society of Earnest Wockers." .
At Shermrn tha other day a-little
child fell into a cistern but was
rescued.
linrin? the freeze. Dick Grantham
of liockdale lost 400 head of sheep in
one night.
The Light wants the legislature to
o-ij over to Sia Antonio and see the
white eleph:iut.
Richard Evans has been acquitted
of the charge of murder at Fort
Worth.
Mr. R. II. TLsclale has been elected
Worthy Master ot Round- Rock
Grange. I
A lirenhu'iir-mah has been fined 5
for shooting off his pistol in his own
house.
Young rowdies of Navasota amuse
themselves by breaking out the
church windows.
John Callahan killed R. L. Gray in
a personal difficulty near Kerrville
one day last week.
A grand masquerade b;;U is to be
given at San Marcos on bt. V aien-
Une's eve the 13th inst.
Dr. J . II . Biker a prominent phy-
sician of Navasota did the oth-r day
and was buried near Flantersville.
The Dallas Herald has a map of
Galveston harbor which woutd aston-
ish Ma j. Man." field.
The voung folks of Mexia recently
turned a masquerade ball into a Moth
er Hubbard party.
Jesse Jackson colored is to be
hanged at Houston on the 27tb for
murder.
The El Paso Star sys the dynamite
fiends must be suppressed but cloes-
not say how.
In Cameron the other day a man
hitched his horse to his dog the horse
ran away and kicked ths dog to death.
The Galveston News says thirt.i
miles of rail are in readiness for the
extension of the Santa Fe west from
Lampasas.
Near Milano a few days ago the
five-vear-old child of Henry Hill was
bmried to death in th s absence of the
parents from the house.
Millsan has both the veteran Texas
editor Joe Kirgan and a merchant
named Nail. Kirgan now runs the
Mill&ap Presst"
James Lackey employed by an East
Dallas merchant departed tne oiner
day and' 35 of his employer's money
with him.
The Black Jack Post explains why
his town is on a boom and aUributes
iiriti part to its situation in a rich
f -rmiug country.
The sheriff of Bee county went with
the recent Baptist excursion to Mon-
terey though of course not in his
official capacity.
The pecan trees in the creek bot-
toms were very seriously injured dur-
ing the late sleet by the brtaking of
limbs and branches.
Two suits are to be filed in Austin
against the Galveston News for libel.
One judgment for 10000 has just
been rendered. Fairfield Recorder.
The San Marcos Free Pres3 says
it hopes to find a good neighbor in
the new editor of the Kyle News
whose name happens to be Neigh
bors.
The place where the robber who
last December robbed Dr. Cocke near
LaGrange was captured was on the
Rio rno twenty nines irom rne town
of Uvalde.
A man living on the Bois d'Arc
Fannin. county received notice the
other day signed by his neighbors to
leave the community. No reason is
assigned.
In the city of Dallas one hundred
and seven poor families are being re
lieved by c harity lianas county nas
forty-seven county convicts on her
poor iarm.
A man from Live Oak county states
that the cattlemen ia that section are
feeding their cattle upon prickly pears.
ftev burn off the thorns Dy placing an
oil stove under the plant.
The Seguin Times man strongly ad
vises the farmers to the adoption of
mixed husbandry. Some farmers
however have an idea that they know
s much about their own dusiecs as
editors.
Ia 176 Jim Raby sheriff and collec
tor of Coryell county lett between
two days. A few days ago he was ar-
rested in Indian territory and brought
back. He says he will clear every
thing U.
The editor of the Corpus Ohnsti
Critic has had a big scrape with chick
en thieves whom he pursued so swift
ly that the rascals dropped one line
gobbler. Both pursuer and pursued
made good time.
Mr. Muller of Homer was sitting
in his bouse with his baby in his arms
on the 20th inst. when some miscre-
ant shot at him through the window
wounding the baby slightly. .No clew
to the perpetrator.
The tramps who shot and Lilian
Conductor Frazier near Overton on
the I.& G. N. railroad for attempting
to put them oft the train nave been
arrested and identified. They ought
to pull hemp and doubtless will.
William Wellborne shot and killed
Dr. S. B Allen at Alvarado on Satur
dy night. They were brothers in-law
Hud quarreled over an old settlement.
Both were heeled drew their guns at
the same time and fired simultaneous
ly. Wellborne who was unhurt made
his escape.
The Colorado Clipper says ..hat carp
are a humbug but that if the legisla
ture will pays a law prohibiting sein
ing and blasting lor nsn Texa.s waters
will soon have a good supply of native
fish which are iar superior to the
German carp.
Mr. C. B. Patterson filed in the dis
trrct court at Waco a suit against the
Missouri Pacific railway company for
S30.000 damage's. Mr. W m. .Benedict
a German farmer who resides in Bill
Gountv. is plaintiff in the case and
the claims are based on his being run
over by a train and sustained serious
damages tnerec-y.
' The Uvalde West Texan says his
town wants a wool-gro era' associa
tion a live stock association. a wool
and hide warehouse a bee keepers'
association a down-town telegraph
office a telephone exchange a refrig-
erated meat establishment a street
railway street improvements increas
ed banking facilities ana a good tauor.
Tvler has a curoslty in the person
of a negro who eats glass for the
amusement of spectators. - Old bot-
tles window panes and the like he
seems to relish it is said as though j
they were a dainty aisn his scomaca
no aouDi oe prooi. ag a ou
hii). I)rs. Martin and Saunders w ere
called and reduced the dislocation. 1
Mrs. Monks was conveyed heme next
d:iy audit doing as well ascc-uld be
expected."
Willis Index: We learn from a re-
liable source that Mr. G. G. Woodruff
tm old and highly respee'ed citizen of
Waverly was found dead lat Tuesday
morning about half way between his
residence and store. The cause of his
d?at!i is unknown but the general
opini-va is that he died from u sudden
stroke of apoplexv or some kindred
attack.
Paris flex. Free Tongue: .1. N.Mc-
Bath certainly possesses the faith of :
good old Ebjah. In the past he has
set out 44.444 shade and fruit trees
more or leas most of which have gone i
the way of all the earth; but nothing !
daunted ho is again setting out a i
large number. it seems mat ne is
bent on having shade trees whether
Noah ever builds another ark or
not. '
Rockdale Messenger: t: v ml c "
have died about town latel . ; i sum
from eating a certain weed the nama
of which is not given. Mr. J. P. Lynn
hatlc&tLJtiireevithin a few days. The
symptoms wt re a swreTJurg-of-iedy-j
accompanied wun a suiin.ii: duuou-
tion resembling ague ine animai us
ing in groaning misery and dying in
a few hours after the attack.
Laredo Times: G. A. Young. Esq.
an attorney -at-law of Cleveland Ohio
who had been spending some time in
San Antonio for his health arrived in
Laredo last Saturday atternoon in thi
last stages of consumption being so
weak tha he had to be lifted from his
carriage the Commercial hotel. He
walked about the city some yesterday
and was this morning discovered
dead in bed. His relatives have been
telegraphed. It is stated that his wife
is very low- with the same disease at
their home in Cleveland.
San Antonio Times: Mr. Geo. W
West one of the wealthiest cattlmen
of Western Texas yesterday deposited
the handsome sum of 150000 at the
bank of Messrs. O'Connor & Sullivan
to the credit of D. R. Fant. The sum
paid was the balance of the purchase
money on tne ew-iu.uuu rancn iu iiive
Oak county bonght by Mr. West two
.. 1. .1 -. ' 11 Him rvarYla
yeara MgO. Xb uuenu b luua a i rv. v. w
should complain of haid times when
one man can plank down such a large
sum.
Brown County Banner: Away up
in the classic regions of New En-
gland the fair ones complain of u scar-
city of materiiil for husbands and yet
a Texas girl jresh irom the matrimo-
nial market of the "Lone Star" went
to Bost on the other day and in a few
hours had two score oi penitent suit-
ors paving homage to her charms
S2i(HX) in Houston & Texas Central
bonds 5L00 acres of Texas land 500
head of cattle and one snake-brindle
steer. It just takes a Texas beauty to
show her Yankee cousins how. '
Black Jack Post: It is reported to
U3 that Geo. Finley living south of
Miller Grove shot a "coon" in the back
with a six-shooter last Wednesday
itttictinff a pamf ul though Eot danger-
tsix? wound iiniey r.au a gruuge
sgainct thH darkey and invited him to
take a walk with him and after walk-
ing some distance up the road Finley
drew his cutter and blazed away three
tim s at the negro who sutvued m
dodging two of the bullets this third
one taking effect with the above re-
sult. Officers went in pursuit ot Fin-
ley but have Dot got him.
Terrell Star: Sunday morning
about two o'clock the report of two
pistol shots were heard at cr near the
corner ot liioaaway and xerreu
streets followed by the sound ot
horse's hoofs a3 it galloped away.
Immediately afterward D en Kemp
entered the gate of Air.' Deitze and
staggered to the gallery where he
fell and cried tor help. Mr. Uenze
came out and was soon jomea oy
other citizens of the neighborhood.
A doctor and an officer were sent
for as soon as it was ascertained that
Kemp was seriously woundec'.
Clarksville-Standard: Mrs. T. A.
Powell a sisier of W P. Cornelius
died at the residence of C-1. Shaw
near clarksville on the RXh. She
wa.s first married to Geo. Y . Dyer
of Bowie ecut'ity who was known to
the rarly settlers ot Howie county
and Bob Dyer well known to the Red
river boys" of 1805 is her son. After
the death of Dyer she married Mr.
Powell She was a lady of tentle and
pleasant manners ahd was esteemed
for her general traits of character.
Her father and mother resided in
Bowie county upon a plantation from
1838 until the death of the old gentle-
man in October 1847.
Fort Worth Mail: Last evening
the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Grainger aged about eighteen months
was playing on the lloor and in some
way got hold of a large screw which
child-like he put in his mouth. A
moment alter wards his mother heard
a gurgling sound and looking at her
boy notit d that he wa3 choking.
While remedies at band were applied
Dr. Adams was summoned but in
hve imnute3 the little tellow was
dead before the arrival of the phy-
sician. The screw had entered the
windpipe point downward so that
the head absolutely closed the aper
ture producing strangulation.
placed upon that structur
One of the uses to which it is pro-
posed to put the elejtrii- i cid-light is
to have h second illuin:iu.t..r placed
on the rear of the engineers c.ib
throwing the flood of light over the
yed
Was
monument supped and fell ten lei
his sleeve catching on a n.iii prewir-
ing his plunging down the other 410
Brooke says in the Rund
. Hoaie that more cl-erries. berries.
peaches and grapes l less pie cake I That we'd not bremlivof half the mean tricks
I and meat would b- .-1 pain prolong ! 0urueis"ursre".rkl"K ' day-
' life and greatly in.icase the mental j S. we think while thes neighbors are saying
aim pnysicai vigor or ine race.
Comfort is the first essential of
growth development and of milk
yield. A cow which is chilled and
half starved is no condition to do well
1 as a milker and if she gives no decent
ret urn of this milk what is she kept
iur z
It is said that one tree marks the
corner of three counties in Ohio-
Wood Hancock and Seneca and a
; cow rubbing her sides against the
trunk in Hancock county chews her
uuu iu .eneca ana Drusnes mes i;i
Wood.
Sweet skimmed milk is worth to
feed in connection with other food to
a good breed of pigs 1 cent a quart.
Two quarts of milk. Prof. Ronerts
says drawn from the cow by the calf
s?Mqit:?OTfl i lBYisnraUM 1 Fattemngl
train and so arranged thut it can be
turned to the right or lett and be made are worth three quarts fed to it from
to illuminate the stat.-.su grounds ' a nail.
wnen tne vrain is at a Etami atui.
A London dispatch s.tvs that In
general impression sl.e -- i- : X at the ex-
plosions of Situruav more tinously
agitated America ami Europ; than
they did England more e specially Lou-
don where the people are now famil-
iarized with them and treat them w ith
more or less contempt. This is rich
too rich for ordinary people's blood.
In 1875 a Pennsylvania court au-
thorized the nephew of Dr. Thomas
W. Evans the Paris dentist to as-
sume the name of Count D'Oyley.
The young man found that as a 'den-
tist in Paris he would do better under
his original name of Evans but wh.u
bo riiht to reassume it his uncle ob-
j old an! the French courts bus
mm 1 1 i- iiuc f.
PERSONAL.
I.. M..Ahvy. of Hunting
ton ivuiisyivania is a veritable hero-
iue. Duniig ihe absence oi her father
who is sheriff and keeper of the local
jail three of the prisoners who are
allowed the liberty ot the corridors en
gaged in a desperate light among
themselves and the insurrection was
quelled through the courage and pres
ence ot mind ot Miss MeAlvey who
forced them back to their cells at the
muzzle of a revolver.
When Jo Brown of Georgia started
out in the world his old father who.
in those davs was "poo white trash
;".nd could only give him a yoke of
steers a suit of home-spun and his
blessing. Jo sold the steers and spent
me money in going to school. With
the education thus accquired as caoi-
tal he has prospered until he has liv
ed to be called colonel general gover
nor senator by other people and a
blatant demagague by Henry Watter-
son. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler began t
suit in the United States court at
New York Munday against Stephen
is. JiiiKins one oi liiames managers
of the Republican National commit-
tee. The complaint charges that in
February 1884 a contract was signed
whereby the defendant agreed to con-
vey by" quit claim to lhe plaintiff
about 100.UOO acres of land in Mora
county New Mexico. Gen. Butler
was to pay Elkins seventy-five cents
an acre. Gen. Butler asks the court
to enjoin Eikius from selling the
lands and make him perform his
agreement.
A number of prominent democrats
of Alleghany county Pennsylvania
desiring in some manner lo fitly cele-
brate the result of the late pr&i&Sulial
election hate n.cdded to give a ban-
quet in Pittsburg on Thursday even-
ing February 12. Among the distin-
guished democrats invited are Citizen
Cleveland Mr. Hendricks Samuel J.
Tilden Gens. MeClellanand Hancock
ex -Senators Thurman and W llace
Speaker Carlisle Senators Bayard
Pendleton Lamar and Gorman Govs.
Pattis'jn and lloadly and all the state
officers and democratic congressmen
of Pennsylvania. It will be an occa
sion of note.
American heiresses seem to have
a penchant for Italian noblemen. The
engagement of Miss Eva Mackay adds
another name to tne already long list
of American and Italian unions. The
leading names on tnis li-t may be
tsritlly mentioned: Miss Pield
Princess Rrancacicco; Miss Lorrillard
Spencer Princess Vicararo Cenci;
Miss Broadwood Princess Ruspoli;
M iss Conrad Marchesa Teodoli ; Miss
Kinney Countess Gianotti ; Miss Fish
er Countess GheiardescaMiss Roberts
Countiiss Pail;' Miss Pry Marchesa
Torregiani; Miss Lewis Countess
Uarbolmi Amauel; Miss liiiiinder
Marchesa di San Marzano and Miss
Hungerlord Countess Telfener. The
Citizen.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
Grape vines can be trimmed any
time from now until March.
It is said that Kentucky has more
navagable river lront than any other
state in the Union.
The largest prune orchard in the
world is situated in Saratoga Cal.
and contains 10000 trees.
Poultry farming is now declared to
be the most profitable department of
husbandry in England.
An oyster "measuring two feet in
diamettr" (local papers say) was re-
cently sold in Paris for $1.50.
A carpenter at Lebanon 111 when
a nail is too long for his purpose.U'kes
it between his teelh and breaks it oil.
It cost3 more to' maintain the city
of Boston in proportion to popula-
tion than any olher city in the United
S"ates.
A 6peeie of wiid potato has been
discovered in the mountains of Arizo
na. The vegetable is about the size of
a walnut.
Twelve oysters recently taken from
the shells at Baltimore Md. weighed
over five pounds and completely fided
a quart measure. .
It is said that in some parts of
Kansas a pound of good butter will
bring as much in market as 100
pounds of corn.
A society belle in New York ig said
to have recently paid 8500 for a pair of
shoes. They were ot white satin ami
embroidered with pearls.
S.ilinas Cal. is troubled by a plague
of frogs. They hop in at open doors
nd windows and are a nuisance and
terror to nervous housekeepers
Almost every pl;ce has something
to be prou l of. In the case of Fort
Worth Texas it is a jail which is
said to be the finest in the south.
There is nothing that keeps an ani-
mal's systun so well regulated and
eems to sharpen their" appetites so
well as the judicious use of salt.
According to conservative esti-
mates we have a total of 300u000
colonies of bees which annually yield
120000000 pounds of honey.
A Canadian has had his tor gue am-
putated at the (ieneral Hospital in
Toronto became of cancer alleged to
have been caused by cigar smoking.
Never mix potash with any sort of
decaying manure. To do so would
liberate all the ammonia and nitrogen
and cause it to escape and be wasted.
The Ontario Agricultural college is
good authority in natters agricultur-
al and it declares that peas are better
and cheaper food for stock than maize.
A man named Smith living out in
Iowa bet fifty dollars be could hold
800 pounds on his chest. He did it
and he now holds up almost the same
weight of earth. - -
When it is desirable to promote the
growth of a horse's hoofs the best
method ia to keep them frequently
wet. The simple application of water
i all that is necessary.
A rainbow about twenty-five min-
ntpq after sunset was recently wit
nessed in Ireland. It was evidently
It is noticeable that farmers are less
inch.n-if to r-o-operate in doing work
or i.i j Mi i;ng a supply cf food than
the early . triers of thf e-ountry were.
There has been a se: - ije decline in
wnat was called "neighborly kind-
ness." A very pretty stcry is told to the
effect that the thitnlle was invented
in 10S4 by a goldsmith named Van
BeuMcholten of Amsterdam to pro-
tect the lingers of his lady-love. The
English were the first to adoot the
new invention.
A man in Cedar Keys Florida went
to a physician to be cured of a num-
ber ot diseases. The phviician told
mm thn.t there was nothing the mat-
ter with him which made the would-
be patient so angry that he assaulted
the physician.
t-OUld the WUSte of corn or itspnniv.
alent in other carbon fnmi that i
caused by cold uncomforable stables
sheds aad styles or their entire ab-
sence be accurately estimated it
would show an array or figures that
would antonish some farmers.
A. Scottish Dhvsiciun lprlrpq that.
of all the strange journeyings of
needles in tha flesh which have comn
under his observation the strangest
occurred in a ladv patient whn a vnr
ago broke a needle in the first joint of
her left thumb and a few davs a?n rp.-
of us
The things we are think'Psof them.
And while we are i-viisuring they In their
tuin
Our lailines mid fo'.lies emidenin.
But. ah it would be much better my frlond
1 1 an .wo tu examine wiiuiu
Their own heurts and see It set
there.
They will not llnd some cherished pet sir.!
Yes the world's full of sinners and yet in
most lieatw
There is nnu h that is loval and kind.
Audit only we'll look vitu the right sort of
eyes
More of good than of evil we'll llnd.
We all have our faults and our queer cranky
wavs:
There is no perfect tieingon earth
But. all there are many we meet every day
Wi o are creatures of genuiue worth!
But then ynu must look 'neath Uie surface my
fnemls.
To discover the eood and the true
ileal virtue is modest. and does not parade
Itself to the world's pu lie view.
Yes e'en inougst the sinners we mtet every
day
There are some tho' not spotless from taint.
Who are in the sipht of the angels above.
Deserving the title of Saint!
Is pronounced by scores of phy-
sicians and thousands of people
who have used it to be the best
Vnovm remedy for Debility Dys-
reted safe pepsia Indigestion Los3 or Ap
petite Loss of Flesn Lung torn-
plaints Female Weakness Gas-
tric Irritability Nervousness
Malarial lever and many other
diseases where tonics are required
differing essentially from all
other Beef Foods and Tonics.
moved it from her right forefinger.
A little brick school-house.in Butler
county Pa. which has an inclosure of
one acre of land for the children's
playground was until recently sup-
posed to be worthSaOO but the discov-
ery of oil in the immediate neighbor-
hood has led to an offer of $60000 for
the property. The trustees demand
5100000.
In the Moscow district of Russia a
case was recently tried which shows
that n Ferdinand Ward can flourish in
the Czars dominions. Abaut 1860
lvan Uavnlovitch liVkoff wasinstru'
mental in establishing a bank in the
town of Skopin. For twenty years he
controlled the bank and when it failed
the deposits amounted to about 88.500.-
000 most of which had been appropri
ated oy iiyKorr.. lie was sentenced to
exile to Siberia for life.
Some live chickens created a com-
motion on a Baltimore stage that
seems to prove that property-chickens
are better man thei real articles fo
De Morujr and lilamarck.
A writer in the Temple Bar says
that one point upon which De Morny
and Bismarck could not agree was
about th qualities that are requisite
in a public servant. De Morny cared
nothing for character. The men whom
he recommended for pretectships or
posts in the diplomatic service were
for the most part adventurers bril-
liant witty and cyders of the other
sex. Bismarck loathes ladies' men;
and he had the poorest opinion of
Napoleon IH.'s diplomatists. His own
ideal of a state functionary is the
blameless man without debts
or . cntangmeuts laborous but
not pushing well-educated but
not abounding in ideas. a
man in all things obedient. His
sneering judgment on plenipotentiaries
like M. Bsnedetti and the Due de
Grammont is well known. He called
them "dancing dogs without collars."
They never seemed to have a master.
ne complained "Dut stood up on meir
hind legs and performed their antics
without authority irom man anve
If they barked vou were sure to hear
a voice irom Pans crying to tnem to
be quiet. If they fawned you might
expect to see them receive some siy
kick warning them that they ought
to be uo and biting." liismarcK con
ceived some liking and respect for Na
poleon 111. whom he saw to ue bet
ter than his entourage. Had the Em
peror's health remained good the war
of 1870 would doubtless never have
taken place but so early as 1862 Bis-
marck perceived that Napoleon IH.'s
bodily ailments were causing an indo-
lence of mind that lett the Emperor
at the mercy of intriguing counselers
and what he observed in his subse-
quent visit to Paris in 1867 and to
Plombieres in lobs connrmed tnese
impressions. .
n-i.i. TnTlarnnitnr constats of th6)
1 Inlce ot the unemirenu wi'i-u; uoivu
1 Lloblg's process together with iron quinine
' cud roots and herbs known for their tonlo
I ana health-Riving proporties; and afford
1 ..n.iiri..rii.i v.-vr boili nerve and muscle.
An analysis by the eminent chemist AR-
THUR H1LO HASSATA. M.D. F K.S.. ot Lou.
don.Enelaud; aua aiso bu buuu-.
viisMi-4 wii.son. f.k.s.. IX.D.. ot Lon
don aro labeled on each bottle.
Tt has trronaht nurH rmutrKaoia vurvm
Of the ail'iK iif trhi It o;i i comnutH AU-
tnantty tnat iwtf w n iny
As to the missing New York editor
it is said Mr. S. S. Conant not only
burned life's taper at both ends but he
held a hot poker in the middle. I sup-
pose he thought that because he was a
man of large physique and naturally
rrihimt. f mud irTiilnn " he could stand
f lnau 7LSHmo work than most mearbut-aFT
Diav was npcominir.M;rfririnin o nt. rule it is tl
Gen. Simon Cameron of Pennsylva
nia now nearly 86 vears old is about
to make a tour or the south.
Kate Pield says: "A Mormon wo-
man is an iuiimal to replenish the
earth; only this and nothing more
Hon. William E. Gladstone recently
said: "Washington to my mind is the
purest figure in history."
Gen. McClellen has not yet fully de
cided whether he will or wiu not ac
cept the grand marshalship on inaus
guration day .
Frof. Whitney of Yale in spite of
his facilities tor objurgation in seven'
teen languages is suffering from the
consequence of hiving stepped on a
needle
Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb is to be
married in about three months. The
prospective biidegroom is thought to
be the Count Rusebud a gentleman
of exceedingly diminutive stature.
Although William Cullen Bryant
has been dead several years letters di
rected to him are received aimost da
ly at the office of the New York Eve
ning i'ost.
The late Gen Reinbold de Wrangel
commander of the Riga fortress was
one of the most noted veterans of the
Russian army. He served in it seY'
enty ye irs and was for forty-four
years a general.
"For a prince it must be admitted
that the eldest son of the Prince of
Wales ha9 been well brought up"
writes Labouchere. "Prince Edward
has had an excellent education and
the plan of making him pass some
years at sea was as good a one as
could be devised." "
At President Arthur's reception to
trip armv and nnvv nfflpra Tuparlav
evening General Butler was a distin- caused by the light reflected upon the
guished figure in the blue room and j clouds lioru the glowing western ssy
held a small reception of his own. A Florida paper is responsible for
while he stood back of the president tho utatpmpnt that the phosphores-
1 and the receiving party. cence on the St. Mark's river anal bay.
rina flan fiMnl'fl f jff nfFtMia naq. tia linrhtlinndP TJ TT1 CiTtiZ2 -
piay was becomin? rrhet.ir!in a nrfit-
ty barnyard scene a big rooster in a
;hickeh-coop gave a vigorous and
clear cajl. All the small chickens be-
coming ( xcited burst their bonds and
fluttered out upon the. stage. The her-
oine rushad from the arms of her
lover to catch the chickens but they
fl ;w hither and thither till the mana-
agur rang down the curtain. Some
of tne chic-kens flew down into the
auditorium and the audience had a
lively time. It was an act which
gave much humor to the perform-
ance. Three hunters had a very lively ex-
perience with a bear recentiv near
Huntington Pa. The bear was
brought to L ay in a large thicket with
the aid of hounds and one of the par
ty volunteered to creep in and drive
bruin out. The volunteer had gone
out a snort distance when ne was sud
denly attacked by the enraged bear
who planted its feet cn the hunter's
breast and terribly lacerated him.
The cries of the unlucky hunter soon
brought the others to bis assistance;
but the bear left him only to charge
on his rescuers one of whom bruin
grabbed around the waist and with
a powerful hug broke two of his ribs
lhe third bantsr raisd his gan attki
crit ical moment and with a well-di-rrcted
aim planted two balls in the
b?ar's heart killing it instantly.
English and American Society.
A metropolitan writer comparing
English and American society says:
"London w h-n gay ru hes its season
through with far more velocity than
anything we know of here. Four or'
five balls or routs a they are often
called are considered a moderate
allowance for one night for a London
belle tnd she goes from one to an-
other keeping her carriage
waiting at the door while she takes a
turn in the dance or shows herself and
her diamonds lo the crowd without
probably enjoying any of them.
Here the women go for enjoyn ent
aud admiration and as a general
thing they get both. The german
which may almost be called the na-
tional dance affords an arena for the
display of every good point of person
and costume and carries with it
through the ever-changing fig-
ures an effect of motion
light and color which is exhilara-
tion and excitement of the best that
a ball can give. To lose half of this
bewitching dance by going in search
of another that might chance to be
far less pleasant would be looked
upon as suicidal in this part of the
world. A good straight lively ger-
man with lots of favors and a "take
out" every few minutes is an Amer-
ican girl's idea of perfect bliss.
Fought It Stroiis.
Rockdale Messenger.
The Galveston merchants made a
strong fight at Austin to defeat the
alteration of the attachment law. The
proposed new law would compel a
pro rata distribution of the assets of
a bankrupt among the creditors and
in the minds af all just people it will
certainly be considered better than the
present law which is first come first
served enabling one creditor to jump
in and take all. This plan is an invi-
tation to "wreckers" and led to the
ruin of many an .honest and well
meaning country merchant.
What Protection Does.
From the Boston Herald.
What protection does is to intensify
the effect f these excessive fluctua-
tions. At one time prices are at an
abnormal heigbth so high as to se-
riously interfere with the success of
collateral industries and later on thy
are pushed down to an abnormally
low point. The business is at a fever
heat one day and in a chilly lethargy
the next.
How an Editor Went Down
REMEMBER THE NAME!
COLDEN'S Liquid Beef TonlO.
Sold by leading wholesale druggists and
retailed by druggists generally.
Price $1 per bottle; 6 for $5. 1
Hi
Honey
OF 0
Horeuouud and Tar
For rnn of nil a?. Opdw-
all? known to bo A w.'iTmKKFUI
iMir? tor l'oiitbiiC'oila4 roup.
"VVlifKMituii ( ouch.UritQuintii.and
'fc. 'fiiriaitMtit. It haninhc
f-r -v;Vx xnagu-; ci i 'autunrriiM"
rnic;;itiir t ami $1 largest
?iSihe' Touthni-hH Ilropa
Y lire in ue roinaie.
Qtrman Corn Jfr-mriwr AuU wn0
and iiiinttfiu.
the small wiry men who can
do the most work without feeling it.
Mr.Conaat has teen a journolist all the
working years of his life de began as
a reporter on the New Yo k Times.
Then he wa3 city editor and finally
managing editor. Aud from the Times
he w ent to Harper's as editor of the
Wo 3 a position he has filled for fif-
teen c i sixteen years. He not only
discharged the duties of his editor-
ship which were anything but light
for the work of editing a weekly illus-
trated paper i3 never done there is so
much looking ahead that the editor is
always on the jump but he also read
a great many of the manuscripts
that were submitted to Harper
& Brothers for his cpnions were
particularly sound. TheL he was an
executive officer in the Masonic order
and that kept him busy in the even-
ing. I don't believe that he realized
that he was doing too much work
and I don't believe that Harper &
Brothers realized it. either thing."
seemed to go so quietly with him. He
had acquired the journalistic habit of
sitting up nearly all night and it wa
generally long after midnight before
he got to his bed. The other journal
istic habit of sleeping Jate in tne
morning however he did not indulge
in for he was at his desk at 9 o'clock.
Living in Brooklj n this means that
he got up at a pretty early hour.
Sleep I believe is one of the most
necessary things in the life of a man
of letters. An editor's brain is never
at rest except in his sleeping hours
and if he is using it eighteen hours
out of the twenty-four he is using it
beyond its power of endurance. Mr.
Conant has complained recently of a
queer feeling in his head bat he did
not seem to think that it was any-
thing serious. On Friday the 16th of
this month it bothered him a good
deal and he said to Mr.Harry Harper
that he did not know what was the
matter with him his head felt so
strangely. Mr. Harper told him
he had better go home at
once and a little excursion lo
Albany wa proposed by wav of re-
creation. Mr. Conant acted upon his
advice and left the office earlier than
usual and has not been heard from
since. He was traced to a hotel on
Fulton street where he Btayed on Fri-
-dav night; but since then all clews
" i. ir. i;.i. .niof. till V.n
are lOSb. XIS UXUU M iCKiaici bu biic
next morning and although iwo of
Harper's men were in the hotel look-
ing for him they didn't know that he
was there. Detectives are working
night and day on the case but hive
apparently made nr discoveries of any
importance.
Of all the men I know Mr. Conanl
is the last one 1 would suspsct of any
derangement of this sort. As I hare
said he was a man of large build and
apparently of excellent health He
was 5 feet 10 inches in hn stockings
and weighed about 180 or 190 r.ounus;
his hair is slightly sprinkled with gray
and falls over his fc eluad. He wears
a light mustache it the style of Mac-
duff the mustache running in with a
whisp of beard which gives it the
appearance ot being much lo jger than
it really is. His appearance alto-
gether is not unlike tne Scottish chief
or of the representatives of him that
we see upon the stage.
The Roller Skate Must Go.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Will the roller skate have to go?
The Dauphin county (Penn.) grand
jury in its latest presentment to lhe
court reports that the skating rinks
are a nuisaneebecause"detrimmtalto
the health of our young people and in
a great measure destructive of the
morals of tho youth who frequent
them." Thi3 with the opinion of the
learned scientists that skating en-
larges the feet will have a tendencv
to mane tne pastime unpopular
A Mnr-1erou Sect.
Phi'adelDhsa Bulletin.
A recent judgment of thej
court at Odes'-i.
there is a 3
leadh
"ROUGH ON CORNS."
Ask for Welis' "Rough on Corns;'
15c. Complete cure. Hard or BQft
corn3 warts or bunions
Wm. Burris a farmer living near
Denton when summoned before the
grand jury- refused to answer the
questions propounded. Ho was sent
to jail and fined 8100 twice; he then
concluded to tell the grand jury what
he knew. -
Wkm tie Fire is Oil
l'i;.rtim f A1 nnn " Mi. T'ti 1 i n TVi....
"had mastered every secret in nature which
the nobl-r magic sueka to fathom lie dis-
covered that the true art of healing is to a-it
.Nature to inrowon tue aiseass losuin
as it were the whole sjsirm to
emy that nas laieneu on
cessft ail muuaea ii
principle o
In this tl
Ml
lead when
v w orld.
ha geta to tee
too modest to give bis name writes to
a San Francisco paper to say that he
other j was with Grant when it occurred and
that the -general tduring thg gnole
iantthan ever known: that at
the bottom of the river can be plain
se n when a person is m the war'
a boat.
ki'T
otn
1
WHY WTLL AKV OXE RT:F"ER FROM CORK
when thi'T cu .'"t a lioMle n tb "OEIIMA'
CORN UF.MO Vr.lt" cermin b.' pamir'a rem
dy for both Conm Mild Bunion of any Druiiiir.
for 2& cents. There aia vnrlhiHM imiuttinn mui-
ilar in name. He aurj la got Iho "t.b.KMAM
CORN REUOVKU" I K. I'RI I TKS l'OM S0I4
Proprietor 115 1'ul ton Street ?Vw Vo:-..
SLENN'S SULPHUR SOAP iiU 'B0VE5 THF SMN.
:'fA.-
GLENN'S SULPHUR SOAP.
t h xnot vffootiva external
ivvX Ti A ix ri.icny extant ir tna oure oc
g V ..if;? S Skin lisea and for Beautify-
VCVV V. iDg tha l.'uuipleiion.
jks!ai;dL Caution. Thara are eonnter-
w &1Qt CsvntK'ntM on ouch packet).
7 '"i vt iiru;Rifts 26 ct.; S cut
y V. yftV. Kiailrd on receipt of pri
' "- and 3c. tritm porcake bj
J;i H .!.'.
X. CJUlTTKJiTON PrtVU6
ruHrn ft. Nrw York.
" KILL'S
Hair 2nd Whisker
'l-laTl l
KUbJabbUC
C. N. OnrrnorroK; '
Proprietor
115 Fulton tA.T-
For 15 years at yt Court Tlacc now i.t
322 Market Street T.pniarip t ?
Bet. Third and Fourth. UUUliUUl'jjilJ f
. . (Qiiirlf Mucaled and l-ga!)r qiutlifM pLjruiclan aud Uu '
I- t .uccenful ai his practice will (irov.
Dure all forpu of PRIVATE
i TRONIC nnu Si-XUAL BIS
aSpermatorrlioa ana Iuipolencyv
antherenult oT elf-ribuso In youth lexaal ftximaci In a-
tuntr ywn or other catis-M and rodu'Ing totue o a ih fal-KwiDvrlti:Nervouia-39
bemlual Ku-lssigm (nffhl rmii-
..fra cr (lremf) Dirnii'' of hiftil Defective itvmwy Fhr
tUal Decay Pittites on Fact A renin to Society of Sercalef
Confusion (' Men l.' tt at fiexual Tuwr it. render ing;
atiarriage ioi;roper or UTihnppr thoroughly And perixa-
ni'titlj cured. S YFiHL IS PluvrlJ currd and a-
rrouitii ijnirm; Goxiorrlioa
LtEZL 8 1 lie ture Orchitii. Heron ivr ituptut.
lTui and uttwr prir .te diseases qi(t-klj curad.
It lsfeir-eviieut nt uyhy ultfr.n v. ... ira pfU1 Rttettoa
to a eertain clas or dlieasei. z-l tr i..:r. thoutaDda inn
ally acquires frrvat iklll. Phyf'ar d-iiigLh (aetetVa
recommend persons to Ojj care. V.'l--n Ii i inconvenient te
vii.it the city for treatment medl'-inm c.ii b tent privaulr
and safely by mail or express anyi:rii.
Cures Gnar&nteod ' all Case
TXiidert alien.
L'uiMuitaUfin peraonall.r or by letter fret and Invited.
Cbarfefl reaaoaaUd and corrttpcu deuce ttricll 0uaLUbUl '
PRIVATE COUIiSELOU
Of TOO vr ento any addrese atfturcly aalM fir fhrrtf
(30) cents. Bttoulu te rend Ir all drtreaa it !ve
i3ce bours froui. ts A. M. t a P. M. Bandari. 2 to 4 9 '.
CARTER'S!
iflVER sM4
Hick Headache and relieve ail the trouble fnck-
dent to a bdione state of the evetem loch aa llis-
zlneaa Nauwa Drowainci Dittrea after eating
Pain in the Bide Ac. While their moat remark
abif aucccaa haa bees ihown In caring
Headaefcyct Carter'aLlttle tlrer PTjIb are jnafi
valuable in Constipation curinr and prereutiue
thia annoying complaint vhile they alao correct
all dioordera of the atomach atimnlata the liver
and regulate the bowel. Even if they onl cored.
HI A
Ache they vronld be almost prlcelea to tboae wh
Buffet from this distressing complaint; but fortn.
Bataly their Koodnesa doe not end here and tboaa
who once try them will nnu these little pill valu-
able In aomany waya that they will not be wiliiag
to do without tnem But after all sick bead
Is thebane of f o many live that here a where we
make oar great boaaU Oar pill cara It whlio
Other do sot
Carter's Little IJver rffla are very email an
very easy to take. One or two pills make a dose.
They are atrictly vegetable and do not gripe or
purge bat by their gentta action please oil who
nsothem. In rials at15 cents; five for tl. Sold
by druggists everywhere or scut by mail.
CARTER HEDICI3T2 tf - Sew Tort
STOMACH
By the use of Hostettor's Stomach RitrVf s the
hnfirsM
phftU. b valid.
yer.
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