The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1895 Page: 4 of 8
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The Abilene Reporter.
PUBLISHED AT
HBILENE - TEXHS.
ABILENE PRINTING COMPANY.
FRIDAY MAY 34th 1895
Office in RrroRTKRBuiliJlni; on Second Street.
Hnwrod t the Abilene. Texas roMOfflee
Second Cins Mull Matter.
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Xks and ratlflc Lead Tims Table.
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Arrrres. 10:40 a. m.
Departs ...11:05 M
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Attires... 4:08 r. M.
Departs.......... 4:30 r. M.
Anent the supreme court income tax
decision ihe Dallas News can justly
say: "I told you so " claiming as it
did from the very inception of the
law that it was unconstitutional and
opposing it on those grounds.
A Ttnnessee exenange represents a
Texas paper bemoaning the prevalent
hard limes as saying: "Tbere is but
one busy man in town. He has the
itch and owns a Waterbury watch so
that when he's not winding he's scratch
ing.
In spite of the most determined op-
position on the part of Prince Hohen-
lohe and the governor of the reichstag
the upper house of the Prussian diet on
the 1 6th inst by a vote of 72 to 38
adopted a resolution in favor of steps
being taken for the prompt settlement
of the currency question by an agree-
ment as to international bimetallism.
The coming of the two Sams
Jones and Small to enliven the pro-
hibition campaign in Texas is viewed
tather complacently by the people gen-
erally inasmuch as 4t will inject into
the silver controvery a divertisement
that will be very agreeable to both
'politicians and the public under the
trying ordeal of the monotonous 1 6 to
1 silver discussion to which they are
irretrieviably doomed.
The investigations of climatology by
the weather burea and the publi-
cation of the results of these investiga-
tions in a monthly magazine will
prove of especial benefit to West
Texas as the climate of this section is
known to be inimical to catarrh con-
sumption and all malarial diseases and
its sanitary conditions and inrluence
generally are not surpassed anywhere
in this or any other country.
Germany's Kaiser remarks an ex-
change will be in his element next
month. Over half a hundred foreign
"warships will salute him as he passes
down the line leading his fleet through
the ship canal from Kiel to tefc Elbe.
Uncle Sam will have four first class
cruisers at the gathering. No such
aggregation of men-of war has ever
-been seen as this ODe at Kiel. The
most powerful armor-dads of England.
France and Russia will be there. And
in all the display the son of Frederick
the Great will be the central figure.
The Reporter on repeated pre--vious
occasions has referrtd to the
bentficial effects of subsoUing generally
but moie especially in semi-arid sec-
tions claiming that next to irrigation
it is the most effectual means to ren-
der farming profitable b such localities.
On this subject in last week's issue
Texas Farm and Ranch corroborates
this statement saying: "There is very
little soil in Texas or out of it that
would not be benefitted by subsoiling.
There are vast stores of fertility deep
down in the bowels of the earth and
subsoiling opens a way for the air to
pcnetrate and jurn this ertility into
available shapes and for the roots of
plants to go down and get it.
Texas Farm and Ranch quotes F.
E. R'oesler. of Eddy while in Dallas
last week as saying ''that when he left
home Pecos Valley farmers were cut-.
ting their alfalfa for the first time; that
a large number of hogs and cattle are
being fed; that engineers are at work
on the railroad connection to the
northeast and that parties are on the
ground looking into the propriety of
erecting a beet sugar plant" It u
Irrigation in the Pecos Valley and m
gation only to which this wonderfully
ptofpcroui condition of the otherwise
Kuril alkali-iwpffgaattd land of that
.
The most hopeful sign- of better
times coming is the advance of wages
in many of the manufacturing estab-
lishments of the country The New
York Times has completed a tabula
ted statement in which aoo firms cm
ploying 1 38000 persons shows to have
votuntarily advanced wages' among
which is the Carnegie Steel company's
advance of 10 per cent which alone
will affect 15000 men
Mr. Henry Saylcs' address off irriga-
tion read before the Texas bankers'
convention at Galveston last week ap-
peared entire in the Dallas News of
last Saturday. As stated in the Re
roRTER last week the address has
becd published in many of the leading
papers of this country thereby getting
a world-wide circulation as these
papers circulate in the leading cities of
all foreign countries The effects of
the address can therefore not (ail to
prove highly beneficial to the irrigation
cause.
The blank p'age in the Reporter last
week was a silent appeal for more de-
served patronage and mighiy strong
argument to the uuprogressive mer-
chants of Abilene to induce them to
join the enterprising ranks in soliciting
trade to that point. The Reporter ts
evidently a fine medium through which
to gam the happy consummation de
rived from liberal methods of soliciting
trade Jefferson Jimplecute.
It remains for our Abilene merch-
chants and business men to say
whether or not they will profit by the
Jimplecute's wise and timely sugges
ticn.
Col. E T. Lee of Monticello 111
editor of the Reunion Journal and cor-
respondent of a large syndicate of news
papers is touring the south. He will
visit the principal points of interest
giving the best locations for settle-
ment by northern people classifying
the best lands by what they are best
adapted to in the various sta'es. He
will visit Tennessee Georgia. Alabama-
Mississippi. Louisiana and
Texas and is' now at the nattonal re-
union of the Confederate veterans at
Houston as the representative of the
Shilo Battlefield 1 association. He is
accompanied by a stenographer and
typewriter and will give some interest-
ing letters from the southern country.
Eighteen hundred and ninety-five
says one of our farm exchanges gives
promise of being a red letter year for
Texas. The future never looked
brighter for the stockmen farmer or
merchant. With good rams all over
the state a splendid corn crop hay
and cotton crop is now almost assured
while our vast pastures will produce
more grass than can be consumed.
Certainly this will be a great crop and
grass year. Then too with the gen-
eial improvement in business all over
the country has come a better demand
and better prices for every produc of
the farm and ranch. Prices for cotton
hides hay corn beef and even wool
are better than for some time past
with the chances in favor of a further
advance.
Senator Vest in an interview this
week in New York gave a correct
forecast of the campaign of 1896.
He said: "It has beep evident for a
long time that the radical difference of
opinion on the tariff and money ques-
tions between the democrats of the
northeast arid those of the west and
south could not be compromised.
National conventions have equivocated
and straddled in order to get votes
but the time has come this is no lon-
ger possible. Many leading demo-
crats of the northeast advocate what
they call moderate tariff protection
and the single gold standard. We of
the west and routh believe in tariff for
revenue only and the free coinage of
silver. We propose to frame a plati
form unequivocably declaring our
opinions and to nominate for the
presidency a candidate about whose
loyalty to this platform there can be
no suspicion."
Notire is herecy given that at the
April teirn 1895 of the county court of
Taylor county I was by said court ap-
pointed administrator of the estate of
Jeff Flannagan deceased All per.
sons having claims against said estate
are hereby notified to present the same
within the time prescribed by law
Letters of administration were issued
April 13th 1895. My residence and
post office address is Abilene Taylor
county Texas.
W.J. Thompson
.Ariwtoitralof ollkcsUte atocUiid
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That Killing; Frost.
V II Johnson a Iruit grower and
nurseryman of Champaign county III.
in a card to the Reporter dated May
14th says: ''My Dear Sir and Friend:
I write you this card to say that
from present appearances whjlc at this
timcyestqrdaymy prospects were good
for 5000 bushels of fruii today I have
not a bushel. Everything froze solid
last night and the fine prospects arc
all gone. My budded stock hi the
nursery is also killed or at least dam-
aged several thousand dollars. I have
never in all my life seen such a clean
sweep and it is so all over the state.
Corn and potatoes froze to the
ground"
This is truly a deplorable condition
a calamity of far-reaching results
which plainly shows the great climatic
advantage Texas possesses over that
frost-swept section embracing sixteen
of the eastern northern and northwest-
ern states. No doubt this devasta-
ting frost will greatly influence and
stimulate the emigration exodus south-
ward already in active progress from
those northern -sections. With our
splendid crop irrigation and new rail-
road prospects Abilene and Taylor
county offer inducements to new
home seekers unsurpassed anywhere in
Texas or any other of the southern
states and with proper efforts a good
portion of this influx of northern emi-
grants and eastern capital could easily
be secured for our town and county.
To this eni. the re-organization of the
old "Progressive Committee" or other
similar association in Abilene would
appear to be peculiarly opportune.
At any rate the subject is one that
should engage the earnest considera-
tion of the business men of thecity. It
was solely by dint of well directed effort
and enterprise that Georgia has secured
large colonies of eastern emigrants
and capital to that state this season
and it is only by similar means that
other sections can expect to do likewise.
Carlisle's Itinerary.
Noting S ecretary Carlisle's speech
making tour in advocacy of sound
money the Houston Post of the 21st
inst. says:
Last night at Covington Ky Secre-
tary of the Treasury Carlisle opened a
short campaign which has been mapped
out for him in the interest of "sound
money" or so designated
What the campaign really means is
that tt is an amhorative declaration of
the administration's position on the
monetary question. In this view the
utterances of the secretary or the
treasury will be listened to and con-
sidered carefully by the country with
closer attentiou than even the great
standing of Mr. Carlisle personally
and politically alone would secure.
And in this view Mr. Carlisle's position
will have great weight for the present
administration has a large and influen-
tial following in the ranks of the demo
cracy of all sections of the country a
conservative following devoted to old
traditions of democracy and who
would regard party disruption as one
of the greatest of National and politi-
cal disasters.
Mr. Carlisle may be trusted to speak
with personal honesty and indepen-
dence of thought on all occasions.
He is one of the big men of the demo-
cratic party and of the Nation what-
ever critics may say to the 1 contrary.
He has been a tower of strength in
party councils and in the National
house for years aud was a fr(end of
the south when the south needed
friends at whom the epithets of "rebel"
and "traitor" could not be hurled.
This brief itinerary therefore of the
distinguished secretary is one of the
notable events; of the day in prelimi-
nary skirmishing of a campaign that
promises to be a memorable oriein the
political history of the country.
for foreign Immigration.
Mayor Paddock of Fort Worth and
Mr. T. B. Burbndge of the same city
zre mentioned as prominently inter-
ested in a plan called "The Southern
Pacific Immigration Scheme." It is
proposed to bring thousands of Euro
pean people to Galveston and New
Orleans and thence via the Southern
Pacific to points in Texas. These
home seekers will be of the better class.
The plan has been talked of for some
time and many of the most prominent
citizens ol Texas are engaged in furth-
ering the scheme.
Communication we see it stated
hat been hid with Frekkm Hunting.
ton of the Southern Pacific and it con
ference at which all the details will be
discussed will be held in New Orleans
at no very distant dale. Mayor Pad-
dock will probably attend with several
other mayors and parties interested in
the upbuilding of the state. The
plan it is further stated has met with
favor among capitalists and investors
and great interest is attached to the
outcome of the coming conference.
There can be no city or section of
Texas more interested in the objects
sought to be secured by this immigra-
tion scheme than Abilene and Taylor
county. Hence the Reporter sug-
gests that the matter might properly
engage the attention of Mayor Wris-
ten as well as other citizens interested
in the upbuilding of both our city and
county.
As stated elsewhere in this issue with
our present cheering crops irrigation
and additional railroad prospects no
section in the state offers better induce-
ments to desirable immigrants and for-
eign capital than do Abilene and
Taylor county; and certainly no ot her
scheme in the state has greater need
of these city and county upbuilding
agencies than has our town and county.
At any rate the plan is well worth the
serious consideration of the parties
most directly and dutifully interested.
A FREE EDUCATION
Offered to the Boys and Ohio of Toxai
By the Houston Post.
That great Texas newspaper the
Houston Post has just inaugurated a
scholarship contest by which it offers
free a collegiate course in the Hardin
Ladies' College' and Conseivatory of
music at Mexico Mo. to the three
girls sending in the largest list of sub-
sunbers before Agust 1st 1895 and
a course in bookkeeping shorthand
and typewriting in the Houston Busi-
ness college to the boy sending in the
largest list of subscribers in the same
time. Besides this the Post allows
the contestants a very liberal commis-
sion of 10 per cent on all subscrip-
tions sent in making it possible for
the winners to thus pay their extra
expenses and those who are not
fortunate enough to win a scholarship
will be well paid for their work in the
cash commission. The boys and girls
of Texas cannot help but appreciate
this golden opportunity and should
send for the necessary blanks at once
addressing "The Contest Editor Hous-
ton Post. Houston Texas." When
ygu send for blanks you should com-
mence work at once so as to have a
nice list ready to send in when the
blanks are received.
The Laughlin-Harvey Debate.
In the late Laughlin Harvey dissus-
sion at Chicago Prof. Laughlin it is
generally admitted whether champion
the right or wrong side of the money
question came out second best. The
Memphis Appeal com menling on the
debate says :
Pro'. Laughlin puts up about as
lame a defense of the gold standard
theory as any man we know. In his
debate with Harvey he simply begged
the question all the way through asser-
ting as axiomatic facts and propositions
that are repudiated by the leading
economists of the world In his
speech Mr. Laughlin asserted that the
free coinage of sUver would simply de-
base the value of silver to the level of
the present price of uncoined silver
bullion after driving all the gold out
of the country. There would be a
contraction of the currency to the ex-
tent of about $600000000 and the
effect of this contractions he said
would be to double the prices of all
commodities. Is it possible that any
sensible man can believe such stuff
as this? How would the free coinage
operate to drain gold out of the coun
try? Prof. Laughlin and Col. Patter
son tell us that it would be so because
silver being at the time the cheaper
metal with which to pay debts the
monetary demand would be entirely
withdrawn from gold and concentrated
upon silver. Yet bolh deny that this
decreased demand for silver would
affect their respective values by the
millionth part of a cent per ton. They
have utterly obliterated the law cf
supply and demand from their theory
of political economy. They boldly
assert that the ability to obtain money
is not m the least affected either by
it scarcity or lis abundance.
YOU SEE
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All over town with the paint pulling off. They wro not
painted with Mosury's Paint. You also see houses which re.
main bright from year to year which were. Mosury's is tle
only paitit for this climate. We have a freeh stock of wall
paper. It will pay you to investigate.
BASS
THE
MAJESTIC
WILL NOT
Fully Guaranteed. Would be
them.
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J sfwa 'ill pisJr P Est
Ed. S. (-lues 9 ?ompar;y.
IF IN NEED OF-
GIN MACHINERY
WRITE TO
GUIXETT GIN COMPANY
.MANUFACTURERS OF
Plain Huller and Single Drive.
Cotton Gins Feeders and Condensers
Elevators Lint Flues and Battery Condensers
Single and double box self-packing presses.
Complete Ginning Ouifirs.
REAL ESTATE AND
Xexas & pacific Ffailuvay Immigration floncs for tl?e
p. 0. Box 67
A CAR LOAD OF SDLPHDR
Just received at
WORD & ALEXANDER'S
Lowest prices to Speepmen.
Write for quotations.
This is the time
carry A BIG STOCK of
MIXED PAINTS
WHITE LEADS
AND OILS.
See our new line of wall paper.
Prices Bight on everything.
We will appreciate your trade.
YOURS TRULY
WORD & ALEXANDERDruggistfi
Abilene
No trouble to quote prices by mall
HOUSES
BROTHERS!
- RANGE
Manufactured of cold rolled!
steel thoroughly annealed andi
double stretched
They are strong and dur-
able and cannot be broken byj
rough usage.
The fire box is best qual-l
ity of pig iron and will standi
the Greatest amount of heat.
BURN OUT.
pleased lor you to call and seel
Yours Truly
AMITE CITY LA
ABILENE TEXAS.
to paint and w
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