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THE DEMOCRAT:
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DEMOC RAT.
VOL. 1, NO. 40.
McKINNEY. TEXAS. THURSDAY, NOV. «, 1884.
THE BEST SHOES
AND BOOTS,
Ha* Br
W. H. MT ft I C K LA K ft,
(UKiwr,
1 A YEAR'
ITKIH OP IHTEHKMT.
Milk sells at Waco, at
a gallon.
A female buse ball club flour-
ishes at Blunt, Dakota.
A Milwaukee rug-picker is
supjiosed to be worth *40,000.
Then- are 100,000 women in
The Mary of Kan Barton.
four, a bmi Bnoeh Arden Beturni to
Ocean port.
The story which is here r 'lat
ed, happened on August 7 of
thin year:
A few scattered houses,paint-
ed a sober brown, rest upon the
o
it«>t tired
brought
good -but maybe thin will be a
■ 'l«rvr«' w'UK'ia III *- «• to oi'ia i UIWW||| sitsi IIJIUII uir
their living on, sands two miles north of this
place and constitute the village
of Oceanport. The little liouses
are tenanted bv a people whose
hardy lives ana simple manners
Paris who get
the streets.
The eeuter of gayety in New
York society is at present at Le-
^BO*' ,, , , „ , contrast strongly with the lux-
The University of Penneylva-1 ury and gayety of Long Branch
nia has just opened a veterina- i it m only once in a while that
ry school. fashionable visitors find their
Mai- Sherry is the name of a w y to Oceanport, and then
ronuuent prohibitionist in | they go for the express purpose
" ~ " of eating freshly caught iisli a
clams.
A i>athcti<
P1
Portland, Me.
Home of the oldest inhabitants
of Newport say the town is g. ting
down hill.
In Hudson, N. Y., then* is n
wholesale stealing of milk-pails
off doorsteps.
Indiana employs f ,400 men
and $2,000,000 ill getting 2,500,-
000 tons of coal out of 200 mines
yearly.
It is estimated that 1,400,000
men employed iu operating
ids of
and
story, closely re-
sembling tiie story of Kiioch
Ardeu and Annie Lee, has re-
cently been disclosed upon a
deathbed in this quiet and pri-
mitive village. The narrative,
however, has agitated the sim-
ple-minded folk but little, iiml
the tongue of gossip has scare*
ly touched upon it. The history
had to be gathered by bits. The
work was not an easy one, since
knew it oest muni
tisy
.. j- * .< . - . - those who knew it I
the railroads of tins country. fested a disposition to talk the
In one week 14 girls of New least. Hut here is the story :
York and vicinity, gathered up J A pretty girl lived near Man-
their wardrobes and eloped. asquan 80 years ago. ller
No white man ever set foot in
the Hue country north of India,
known as Katiristan, until a lit-
tle over a year ago.
Two tigers, escap from a
circus in Virginia, are now elu-
ding pursuers in the mysteri-
ous Dismal Swamp.
Judge Haves of Iowa, has de-,
cided that ilpnrkr miiiiiip in flint.'
asquan so vears ag«
name was Matilda Dulcimer
Squires. Those who knew her
then say that her eves were
wonderfully soft and blue, her
figure was* trim and graceful,
and her brown hair long and
lustrous. Besides these gifts of
beauty she had the qualities re-
uisite for a good housewife.
i q*
., She wus. the daughter of a fish-
auor selling in that f erinun, a thr
ctable, and that! practical man
itior selling iu that | erman
State " "
buying it is equally a violation
of the law.
a thrifty, staid, and
The United States, witli 55,-
000,000 population has 120,000
miles of railroad. India, witli
ruty, st
i. Two young men
Oliv
paid her conrt—Hiram unve,
wliose father had recently died
and left liiui a farm near the
quaiut old village of Branch-
burg, and Samuel Barton, who
like her father was a toiler of
fffnliif population, has but tjle gea Hard luck hud come
10,000 miles o! railroad. j to jjurton and he had little to
At a colored camp-meeting offer his lady-love beyond his
[near Marion, <4a., Ervin Oo<
"I
Id begnn to pray on Saturday
I night and prayed until 4 o'clock
Sunday morning, when he died.
He prayed himself to death.
Child Vendors.
(n Naukeen and Kai-fun chil-
dren from 0 to IU years of aec
are sold by tens o'f thousands.
Not hired out or transferred—
heart and hand. Old man
Squires, with his eye always to
the main chance, was an advo-
cate of the suit of Olive, and
cnrtlv hinted to Barton that lie
need not hope to become the
husband oft lie pretty Matilda.
The pretty Matilda and Barton,
however, had notions of their
own on that subject. Barton
had already declared his love,
and Matilda had told him that
she was "fond" of him. Her
but sold for a small sum in
cnsli, in consideration of whieh j father's opposition but increas
the progenitor, by a tacit un-jcd the intensity of her attach-
dcrstaiiding, renounces all par- • ment. They met by stealth.and
me, Matildy. I've
you no good—no, no
If
change in my fortune."
Ten mouths after that Mull'
da received intelligence that the
vessel on which her husband
had sailed was wrecked in sou-
thern seas. The mouths and
years went by and she heard
hot a word from the ocean.
Just 10 years after her hus-
band hud sailed away she mar-
ried again. The groom was
Hiram Olive. Her father lived
loug enough to witness the cer-
emony and to take his daugh-
ter back to his heart. Hiram
Olive sold his farm and bought
one near Oceanport, and took
hi* bride and the children of
his «dd rival with him und lived
there.
Three weeks ngo a weather-
beaten old man iu shabby
clothes appeared iu Oceanport.
His cheeks above his gray griz-
zled beard were pale and sunk-
en. He said that he had come
down from New York. He got
a lodging in the house of the
Widow Joscphsoti, a kindly
old soul sometimes called
"Grandmother Joe." The set*
olid morning after his arrival
he was unable to rise from his
bed. "1 never shall get up
again," lie said to anxious
Grandmother Joe. "Ive got
consumption bad. I have drag
ged myself here to die, but
don't fear when I am gone.
Ytni will find money enough iu
a belt round my waist to pay
on for all your trouble. I
ung on to that though every-
thing else left lilt*. As 1 came
down here I
I
that had become engrafted on
the story, und he continued the
history iiere given.
■
Tbo Nuptial* of the President and
BUi Frelinshuysen to Oc-
cur in January.
New York,October 28—Pres-
ident Arthur's many visits to
the home of Secretary Freling-
huyseii during the past summer
have not passed unnoticed, and
rumor has said for some time
that they meant a marriage at
no distant day. Things liave
now taken a more definite
shape, and it is now all but offi-
cially announced that the mar-
riage of the president with Miss
Tillie Prelinghuysen has beeu
arranged, and will take place
at Washington during the
month of Jauuary. Among
President Arthur's* friends in
the city, the news came as a
surprise. All of the: i hud
heard the rumors, but all set
them down as successors to
those which have been proved
to be incorrect.
Miss Tillie is the eldest child
of Secretary Frelinghuysen,
ami is about thirty-nine years
old. She is a tall and slender
blonde, with clear-cut features,
and n shapely low forehead,
browyi hair, gray eyes, and a
somewhat pallid* face, and al-
though not what is called a
handsome woman, has a stately
and commanding appearance.
She is of very polished man-
ners, exceedingly vivacious, un
excellent conversationalist, and
has rendered herself very popu-
lar in all circles at Washington,
heard the name'of "T^ly '"noiig the membefs
and attaches of the foreign le
1 gatious, having among her otli-
a certain woman. It was Matil
da Dulcimer Olive. She once! . , , ,
was the wife of a fisherman who | ** ff,fls !ul ^edleiit knowledge
lived on the coast near hert
named Sam Barton. She was
the daughter of old man Squi-
ers. Do you know her f"
"Yes."
"Well, go tell her to come
here to see me. Tell her she
must come; only once—that
will be all. Go right now."
"Who are you7"
"She will know."
The widow, full of surprise
and curiosity, hurried away,
leaving the sick man in charge
of her red-haired maid of all
work Susie. When she return-
ed Matilda was with her. The
two women entered the sick
room together. The stranger
of most
guages.
of the modern luu
She is noted for her
charities, both at Washington
and Newark.and no one in either
city is more blessed by the
poor thuii she. Her conduct of
these charities is a personal
one, and is not handed over to
any deputy or almoner.
SA I) ACCIDENT.
ill the
cret.
ental rights, even the right of
inquiring into the fate of his
offspring. The purchasing tra-
der may be the middle man of
a well tq-do childless couple,
or the agent of u wholesale tea-
plauter, or a coolie-breeder,
raising and training slaves for
a foreign market, For the
equivalent of any commis-
sion peddler will undertake to she had disobeyed him,sh
•tadopt" the same number of'
'yes, yes, it's Sam
end were married in si;
The truth could not bt
hidden always, and when in the! ,,Vi ,l 'v ln#; .
course of time old Squires (lis-1 1 hen he explained
covered it he was furious. He I,,a<1 been picked up by n vessel
was hardly the man to forgive i that carried him to Australia,
and bless. As .his child had jl,ow he toiled and suffered to
chosen, he said, so be it unto!
her. He sent her away from
his house, and declared that as
Fort Worth, Oct.* M0.—This
morning two farmers, Sansoin
and Walker, living f miles from
the city were cutting timber.
Sausom had cut nearly through
a large pecan tree which was
about to fall and Walker step
was lying with his shining eyes ' Pe^ twenty-five feet to a
fixed upon the doorway. Ma-' Point supposed in a direc-
tion's eyes met his. 'For an tion opposite to that iu which
instant she stood staring hard the tree would fall, but break-
at him as if half in doubt, then '"goffit fell on him, breaking
she started back and cried hls riKht injuring his leg,
aloud. breast and head in a horrible
"Yes," said the stranger,! '"Miner, hansom managed to
uigAinmo* THKUKKP.
Dutoh Steamship, Maasdam,
Mew York, Burned
for
WITH TOO llt'NDKMO FKKMo.NS,
"'ITU MOST AI'I'ALLINO i
TKHBORS.
3nn Francisco, Oct., 20. The
steamer Newbern arrived from
Ouayuins lust night, und brings
news of a disasterous storm on :
the coast of Lower California. J
The steamer Estado de Sonora,
which left Mazatlau on Septeta
ber 2D with niueteen passengers
and a crew of thirty-eight, is
believed to le I
THE LAND HOARD.
AN BFFBCTIVE CRITIQUE ON
THE LEASE LA W SYSTEM
ITS TENDENCY TO
FOBTEB MONO
POLOS.
The Nature; Order of Things Be*
versed—The Actual Settler
Deprived of Water and
Bange.
A J* Ol'KN l.KTTKIt KltOM DIM HON.
W. S. PKNIH.BTON TO HON. .f. U.
TKM IM.KT N, ATTOHN K V
OBNKKAL.
- - - j
teui is but a scheme to raise
revenue from the lands
in the Interval, till they
: are settled tip-what would,
] they have said to a les-
, see who had represented to|
them that he had leased all of
the dry lauds dependent on a
certain watered locality, and
now wished to lease the watered
also) • • • • •
You ask why can't the settler,
under the law, go into the leas
ed pasture; why can't he get a
home on the ;K>,000,000 acres of
unleused land I 1 don't deny
that he can do this ; but under
the circumstances will he I Idol
not dftubt either that a diiuin
ished number of settlers will
Koat Wulirii, Tax., Out. <M, INM.
To llii1 Hun. Joint i). IViuplttun, At-
lunittv Otnvral of Texn* •
I.OST WITH AI.L ON IIOAHD. •«* My chief CUUSe of,. . , . 4 t 4.
The steamer wus u Mexican complaint agaiust the board has i jm*1'tke pl"l'k to \«,|itui*.* tlu^r*/ j
coaster of 700 tons, owned by , been their action in leading .the ' '"spile or the lease
Don Joaquin Bedo, and insured i watered lands to the large cat-'*f,M,r 1
in this city for if?0,<NMt The tie firms and corporations, and . . . . .
American schooner, Dora is al-, in refusing to sell them to uc sp"it!4 would scale its
luw. If a
Chinese wall encircled
school lands, some coiira-
so believed to be lost. Another
storiu occurred on October 7,
and continued three days.
Twenty-four houses at Cape St.
Lucas were destroyed. A great in
" ■ " killed, iw
tuul settlers. This I still regard
as a grave mistukc, und your
letter fails to shake my convic-
tions as to the wisdom of the
measure. The only theory on
tin
heights, for a venture's sake, if
nothing else. The tirnt pioneers
all hi
of Texas whom ull Honor is
due) slowly pushed forward the
frontier, despite the savage foe
number of cattle were killed.' which a leasing system can be I ,,0"fr°"ted theiu, us iucon-
Nine Mexican coasters were defended, if ut all, is tlint of t . art untioylng
lost. Kacli had froiu three to raising a revenue from the leusc,, J!n " more dangerous than
five persons on board. All i simply during the interval, till, J')'' 1.,'stnl,',sl" (1
perished excepting one sailor
und one boy. The storm was
the most violent ever seen in
these parts.
addition a i. c Aimer i, a its.
inply aurnitf tt
in the*natural course of things,
the land.is bough t'nml occupied
by houu-tidc citizens. Any law
or action of the land board is
indefensible, which cannot be
measured by this theory,
by the legislature under the
name of "lease law." That is
not the question whether settlers
can, nor whet In r some or a con-
sidciahle number of them will,
go ipou the public lands, but
ill* tin M I ' I •' I nil ^ ii'' • « ' 'i , | . • •
San, Francisco, Oct.. 5?0.-The' w hich tends to prolong that in 1 U'^stion s, is the way op. n,
following further particulars of terval by discriininatimr froV ant! ""«>l,structe<l as far as
the disasterous storiu on the aiminst the* settler in favor of l°K'slatu>n can uiake tt, so that
coast of Lower California were tli«> man who will lease the most y,v,'u """or w'11 silenced, so
learned thi.^ morning. The |alu|, a,,d thus, t«.i4tliai extent ,l.,at ,hr I'0.0.1'1,1,1,1 l,ul.y f"" 1,1 u
news was brought by the cap- . ul least, retarding the settle K,tt'uv' "d know, that he may
tain of the steamer, Newbern,; ment of those lands. It is a .s,,,'k permanent in the
from Ouavmas. He says the well known fact that the j west, with his family, perfectly
steamer, tistado de Sonora, left settlers of a new country always fr,'V 0,r '''"Station.
Mazatlan, September WO. the watered lands n.r! u.'"1 frnm R". " *rance, except
THK FiusT sToltii j homes in the beginning. It Is
' reversing the order of tilings to
require them to buy and settle
upon .the dry sections, espec-
..... i,i inllv unless the watered lands
put back. It is supposed she absolutely free of ac-
cess to all persons, and conven-
ient roadways provided for all
the dependent country. And if
any lease man, by hook or
broke out on the following day. {
It raged with such terrific fury
that tlio Ustado was unable to
rolled over and weni down with
fifty-seven souls on board.'
Nothing ever afterwards was
heard of passengers or crew. |
On October 14th the Newburn
those privations necessarily iu
cidcut to frontier life. 1 would
cull this carrying out in good
faith,that first duty of the state,
which we have all agreed upon,
to nrovidc for the settlement of
the public lands. Do you not
believe that the very name of a
lease law, in this state, report
ed abroad, has had and will
still have the effect, to turn to
stranger,
Barton--not
how he
exiricate him from under the
tree and then went for u phy-
sician. Walker was uncon-
scious for over two hours and it
is thought he will die.
same
young Mongols in the name of
any employer, and at very
short notice. The authorities
might object to a formal and
puoiic purchase, but the mean-
ing of tlie adopting transaction
Is well urderstood and con-
fined at. If is n lesser evil,
and few parents ask any ques-
tions. Kather than see their
children starve they will resign
them to any fate- with one ex-
ception : The orthodox Budd-
hists seem to have evinced oc-
casional scruples ill delivering
np their youngsters to thepose-
misslonuries, whom
sorts of
lvtizing
tliey sir
e had
despised him, and must no more
think of him as father.
The ill luck that attended
Samuel Barton asa lover 1'ollow
ed him asa husband. Nothing
seemed to prosper with him.
Three children came. They,
like their mother, were bright
and pretty. But they wore not
gold or silver. It was natural
that Matilda's thoughts, under
these circumstances, should
sometimes revert to the old days
with something of regret for
what might have beei;. Hiram
Olive was still in fortune's fa-
vor. But he never tin, light of
make a fortune there, and how,
after he had put a little togeth-
er. ill-luck always came and
swept it awav uiitil lie some-
times believed that he was ac-
cursed. Remembering how his
had
Austin, October^. -Agentle-
man in Tom Green county has
addressed a coiuunication to
the land hoar^ calling atten-
tion to the illegal purchases of
school lauds in that country by
pasturcmeii through their
brass work had been picked up
by the nalives of San .lose Is j
land. They had stripped off
all the wooden part and burned
it. Only the brass work re-
mained. No marks an- on any
of these, but it is believed they
were all from the wrecked
steamer. Rome of the brass
work was sent to Guaviuas for
agan
settler, who is not onl\ denied
tie- privilege of buying those
watered lamis, but.'is also de-
nied access to them.
I Settler get a home on uulcused
land ( Why doe* he want to ^o
into the pasture < Thirty million
acres—"practically all of the
I luniiiil toHav thai! J"'
i„ it., cmdiii,,!, „r ii..' 1« ! ■"««"" "K" '•« '« '«•
j advocate thought of making
I such an argument. Then it was
I said it would all be leased iu a
short time. Gilded pictures of
action of the board last October
in withdrawing the watered
; lands both from lease and sale
was unm ise. if the rule had been
, •*.. T .. wiw« unwise, ii uie ruie mm oeeii ... • . ..
tbu I'U'l'uw .>f UlMitilyliiK it. i ri h„ a,||,er(),i „„r j.., ,1ml! rj'VuniH'H un.l „|
" W'I" 1 by ' in I.IIV I it <v„ul.l i."l Hlill ,,'1"
Si'1 , "i" ""r' v '/ V,'1" ! ! ■ til.' u-l Hi. y for tli. l l- I1« I".' "lia.l.'.w.T.'
Chinl..8\Vil "ii, formerly Dun r,.s,.1T,. Xoliilolv fr.... ''V1* J":"
ish consul in this city
thk KK0OND STOUM
began on October 7, and la ted
three days. It was more vio-l
lent even than the tirst. I'lie i
only particulars are from < ape
St. Incus. They were reported :
last night was sinhuj
tremendous sea running iliati
the Newborn was unabU
ey suspect, of all
agents and requesting an iuves- (touch at the Cape. She passed 1
ligation by the board.
through
ooverty had goaded Matilda
before and made her cruel and „ „ - . ,
,, uuhappv. lie resolved not write ; ligation by the board. He says ! throng^n fields of loose candles
toher, but let her think him, through connivance of officials believed to be a part of the
dead, (u the intervening years they are taking up watered
he had traveled round * and hind as dry and fencing up all
round the world and gathered the water courses in the eoun-
notliing but enough to buy him i try. More than this, they open-
a comn and grave, ami this I b' declare their intention to re-
monev he bound in a belt j slst the intrusion of settlers on
round nis waist, and determin-1 their pastures and are deter
ed to starve rather than touch
it. He heard by chance only a
few years ago of Matilda's sec-
ond marriage. Disease seized
Mage.
niiirriuge'any "more,'"ati<iTth<>re i him. and when the shadow of; ing his example. Numerous
mined and defiant. One pas-
liiremnn has ordered a case of
Winchester rifles to protect his
interests, and others are follow-
was no girl nt Manasquan win
damnable practices. But even ' could truthfully say that his
such scruples can be readily «
outweighed by a few extra dol-
lars.—-C
Mncinnati Knquirer.
is iik a victim f
San Autouio. Oct. 30.—W.
N. Mott, the poetul clerk from
here west, convicted of embez-
zlement from the mail, was sen
. tenced in the United States
court to-day to three years in
Lthe penitentiary at Chester, 111.
After sentence was passed, an
Meriting scene oscurred. When
Infl tart fit nnlu fiinu Btiil ilisnr.
attentions to her meniit mort
than polite form. After Matil-
da Squires's marriage he lost
much of the buoyancy that had
characteiized him before. His
relations v;ith Matilda and Sam-
uel Barton, however, still re-
mained kindly. It is related of
him that on oue occasion, when
Matilda's eldest child was sud-
denly taken violently ill, he
rode six miles through a snow-
storm to bring a physician.
Matilda was discontented, and
she vented her feelings tioyn
her husbaud, reproaching liim
death enveloped him he felt an
irresistible impulse to see his
wife once more, to declare his
instances are cited in which the
law has been violated. The
writer thinks that unless these
identity and nssert his rights things are remedied serious
for one tleetiug moment. J trouble will follow.
He asked that when he was i
dead his children might bej A Boy Who Never Sweat*.
brought to look upon liTs face,;
and said that if they had for- j 1 Putman
gotten him no one should tell | county, Tenn., a son of Jefferson
them who he was; but if they I<®® «<* }'«ars "f age, who, ow-
should recall his face no one! |ng to the peculiar nature of
should deny the truth. He
died. He was buried on Thurs-
cargo of the schooner Dora.
Out of all the smatl coasters
only one is heard of—a small
sloop, name unknown, with five
souh aboard. Two of them
were saved—a young boy, the
son of M. Greer, manager at
Cape St. Lucus, and a sailor of
the latter place, who clung by
his hands for sixteen hours
with his arms iu the water.
Anions the nine schooners lost
were tli* San l'ablo, San Pedro,
Cisne and Antonio. The names
of the five others are unknown.
belt along all the wuter courses.
But under the circumstances
mentioned by you, and for the
reason given, you will please
excuse me for saying that the
board committed a blunder,
that is to me incomprehensible,
in leasing any of the watered
lands al all; leaving out. of view
unaM to ^ll,'t that four per cent.-—one
si... im^.H ' wre of watered land to twenty-
"a d live of .try by your own
figures, is a rather large pro
portion. I have been led to be-
lieve that the laud board was'to
some degree, at least, induced
to lease the watered land be
cause lessees were unwilling to
take larue bodies of dry land,
unless tliey could secure con
trol of the watered lands free
from molestation by the settler
till the expiration of
leases. Hut you disclose the
astounding fact that all the
large bodies of unwntered lands
were already leased, without
the promise, hope or prospect
of obtaining the watered lands
' his skin, has never been known
to sweat a drop of perspiration in
Another phenomenal
davoflast week. His children '''M l'fM- Anotlier p
were brought to lopk upon his future connected with the boy
lifeless face, as he had asked. is that he has only four teeth,
They were grown up, and the;and he had those when born,
ldest, also named Samuel, fli- hnvinfr never cut nor shed any
his birth. He in
Ad Impending Calamity.
The astronomers at the
Greenwich observatory have
been making calculations as to
j the pace of the star A returns in
his progress toward the earth.
They find as the resist of twen-
ty-one observations, that this
tleautlful scintillating star is
coining for us at the rate of fif-
ty miles and seventy-eight one
huudredllip per second. This
amonnts to about 11,000 miles
a minute. iho.ooo miles un hour
or 4,300.000 miles a day. if Arc-
f turns makes a straight shot we
that
ials
l. S, district attorney, con
" a scheme for the ruin of
innocent mau. No proof of
l alleged theft was found on
ana those desiring the
e>8 of the true authors of
numerous thefts have only
Jook in the local postal ser-
Many people are of the
it that Moot, who is young,
ing In appearance
a youug wife, is sa In-
it j ditional seerecy by Matilda.saw bath
-* - He is said to
his pay in advance and give _ . 1 . .
toher for the support of her- that the story would soon'be-
self and the little ones. He sold come known she began to fell with plenty of sense,
his fishing boat and gave her ®ronnd in whispers to start-
that money too. When they j led neighbors.
lint.'Since ins nirtn. He in very
rH! I much affected by the seasons.. ...
father'^ the summer lie gets exceed-! w 1.1 l^'bubly be knocked into
utrun- • wan" und Is compelled, sButhereens, but not for W/100
order to live nt all. to keep y*nrH y®t.
h —
Who make the robber tariff V
The republican party.
Who pays over seven eighths
of the #240,000,000 annual col-
lected in taxes on imiH>rts un-
on which they were dependent;
and afterwards the land board,
in the exercise of its discretion
and in the fullness of its gener-
osity, and as an "extreme ex-
ception," leased the watered
lands also to men who did not
ntted tiicm. Did you lensc tlieiu
the watered lands as a reward
for their liberality in taking
such large bodies of dry lands f
and was this rewarding power
used us a stimulus to encourage
the leasing of lands in large
bodies, as you say, making the
•'water go as fast as possible f"
If so, then it is humoring one of
the most obnoxious features of i
lie p«
pie as the expected results of til
lease law. The people were to
be relieved from all school laves
in a short time. Now, nu argil
ment in favor of the leasing sys
tern is based upon its practical
failure up to date. The settler
is told thai lie has no ri^lit to
complain of the lease law. for
there is plenty of open country
for him to settle in. In what I
have said hitherto, the success
of the lease law or system has
! been assumed. Now let us see
; how it will be with the settler
> in the open country while I he
lease law is still in force. He is
still ileiiied the privilege of buy
Ing watered lands, lie is c< n-
1 fronl wPh the danger that
'some capitalist will lease the
watered lands or, what is just
tl eir aH w'" hinds
H {around the water, and then ap
peal to the laud board to
save him from the penalties of
the land inclosures act. Such
a man, however, will never
fence up the settler by accident
or otherwise. There would 1m*
no board to hehi him out of
such a scrape. The danger Is
that the grazing and watered
land would nil be leased away
from him. and himself left in
much the same condition as if
lie had gone into a pasture in
the first place, viz., restricted
for pasture to the number of
acres lie has bought; and sur
rounded by homlle neighbors..
But the lease advocate says. I
"Why can't the settler
lease as much land as he
needs before the big pasture
mau comes along!" That is just
what he is driven to do, while
these two thiuga to coi
in some degree for the unavoid-
able hardships of frontier life,
I firmly believe that the eflbrto
of Tex'as to settle her publie
lands with the class of.men who
make homes, and therefore
country, will be greatly retard-
ed—how much, it is impossihls
to calculate. The existence of
the lease law at this timers «s*
pecially to be regretted,!
the state being now pen
by railroads, the Indian being
driven back, life..being.Lsafe,
were this law now removed,
with ull Its real and imaginary
evils, the rapidity with whies
the public lands would be fill-
ed with people no mau can fore-
tell.
But who are actual settlers t
liik'ht here,*I fear, we are at a
radical misunderstanding. One
would conclude from your let-
ter that you regarded the set*
tier as the man who pursued
fnrmiug exclusively for a livli-
hood. You say, "you know
from your dally observation
and experience that the chief
opposition there (meauing the
Westi comes from those en*
gaged to some extent in the
cattle business, or identified by
business relutions with it, and
tliu' the only persons who
would be interested in disturb-
ing the settler, would be the
cattlemen, etc." I understand
the actual settler in this connec-
tion to be the man who goes
West with his family and burt
laud with the purpose of malt*
ing a permanent home, whether
he pursues agriculture or the
stock business exclusively oi
mixed husbandry. But It is a
fact familiar to everv old Tex-
an that the first settlers, the ad*
vance guards of civilization,
have never beeu farmers exclu-
sively. The reasons for this
are obvious. On the extreme
frontier farming will not pay;
not, as you say, because the
laud will not produce. That
assertion hns been constantly
made of the frontier since Tex-
as has been a state, and con-
stantly refuted as fast as the
frontier advanced. But farm-
ing for profit will not pay there
because there are no markets.
Therefore the tirst settlers are
driven, from necessity, to de-
pend for their profits ou the la-
crease of stuck of some kiud.
In your language quoted uliovw
they are engaged to some ex-
tent, iu the cattle business, or
are identified by business rela*
tions with it. With this inter-
pretation I cun readily under*
stand and believe you whes
you say: "The settlor has all
along been astouiidiugly auiei
about his wrongs." The xiad
of settlers you speak of are aot
there. Nor will they be there,
until the country has already
become partially occupied by
these first settlers mentioned
above, and until loeal markets
are to some extent established
for farm produce. * 4 •
Now, I am free to admit that
if a constitutional luw cau be
enacted, to make these non-
resident firms and corporations
rpoi
engaged iu the stock business,
pay for the grass they use,
without imposing additional
burdens upon the settler, there
could be no valid objection to
it. Hut no lease law can ac-
complish this object. In my op-
position to it leasing system, 1
have never favored that kind of
"free grnss," nor does any one
else that I know of—which per*
mils the rapacious, big stoak*
man to appropriate the raiifo
to his own use, by fencing, lino*
riding or otherwise; though by
your facetious reference to the
Archer county pastures, "you
seem to say so." But perlutps
that was a painting exercise of
your own, by way of retails*
tion. I favor stringent laws for
the protection of the settler
against the big stookmsn or
anv other enemy.
I have dwelt thus lengthily
on the main issue—whether the
policy of leusing is Inconsistent
with the policy of settlement—*
because all other ouestions de-
pend upou that. If leasing is
inconsistent with the settlement
of the public lunds, you have
agreed that leasing must go,
notwithstanding there are 406f«
r>? l children in Texas to heeds*
rated. On the other hand it
leasing had no tendency to vs>
tard settlement I, acknowledge
ing the importance of the reves*
ue, would favor leasing the lsad
as rapidly as possible. Hot Is
it accessary on my part to uifs
what 1 verily believe that, as s
financial measure, the polioy of
settlement will in the loug rua.
prove superior to the polTey of
leasing; because the interest OB
the proceeds of the lands sold
will nring more, acre for aeva,
than it could be leased tan
while it is a proposition no
can deny that tne unsold
would enhance more mpMljrla
value, under the policy of set
tlenient, than andorany leasing
policy, which would, Is
material degree
tlement of the s
W. 9
words there i* no free
range for the settler. At least
the tenure is so uncertain that
it cannot be said to lie an iu-
grows
h sprightly f der this robber's la
i mix
riff J
pai
jou
his
Matilda told Hiram Olive all
the truth, and it is said that to
satisfy their consciences they
intern! to be remarried. Olive
was found last night at his
home. He was disinclined to
up ami coirtiy talk, bnt by degrees he con-
"I thought that you had t tented to lop off exaggerations
rted, he to go on his long
ourney, she to patientlv wait
return in the little nsher's
cottage, she fell into his arms
weeping as if she never would
see him again.
Re Hfusd her up and coldly
The latest night-shirts for
gentlemen are trimmeed with
percale, figured either with bees
or roosters.
A lawyer in Flemington> N. Qf the people!
.., has been cast in damages or reMon
•3,448 for neglecting the inter-! who prevents it f
1 The repsblican manipulators
The farmers of the country.
Who keeps over $400,000,000
collected from the people in the
treasury f
The republican manipulutors.
Why should not at least
$160,000,000 less be kept in the
treaaury and left in the pockets
ests of a client.
Ih- prtrto'iu I.-,,*, law; that l . I [.'i'I'w'.!"£ "V*'r
its tln.l.-ifj to foNt«>r mofiopo- ! ii!!',.
lies, hid you lease them the;" '
watered lands to enable them
to escape the fH'lialties of the
EtzzrtfLSff* "y i sas *p r r
tem, which, to my mind, is in-
suiterable. After water, next
in importance to the pioneer, is
free range. Indeed he can't do
without either. - If these had
been denied, as they are to-day,
to those early settlers who bias-
ed the path of civilisation years
ago. Texas would have been a
wilderness to-day. Without
v
tin
to the penalties of that act. If
the board had been guided by
that doctrine, to whbui most of
the lease advocates, includiiiff
yourself, are now committed,
vir.., thai the settlement of the
country is the flrat great duty
of the state; that nothing incon-
sistent with that duty shall be
tolerated, and the leasing sys*
fclitw
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