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FARM NOTES.
THEJJARVANTAGES jj OF FRCIT AND
SHADE TREE PLANTING
WELL SHOWN.
Farm GardenluK and How Safely to
Kill and Bare Yoar
Hog.
Edited by John C. Edgar Duval Texas
to whom all communications relating to
this column should be addressed.
The management of The States-
man anxious to assist in the agricul-
tural development and prosperity of
the country hate decided to devote a
portion of the paper solely to agri-
cultural matters and have placed- the
department in my charge.
It thus becomes my duty and
pleasure to supply readers with such
matter as will tend to improve the
practice and profit of agriculture in
its widest sense.
In accepting this position I am per-
fectly conscious cf the resposibility
and feel some difiidence about acting
the role of teacher when I might very
appropriately play the part of scholar
but I am consoled with the rellection
that few men know everything about
farming and certainly no one editor.
In the conduct of this column I
shall endeavor to give readers such
hints and food for thought as I think
will be of benefit of farmers in this
section. As far as practicable I shall
treat of matters of importance at the
time of publication and discuss live
questions.
Being a practical and experimental
farmer and not a mere theorist and
book farmer I propose dealing with
the work of the farm in a practical
way and never palm oil' line spun
theories as facts.
I am not egotistical enough to
imagine that all will agree with what
I write and select and therefore I in-
vite criticism and contributions.
Communications bearing on the
work of the farm ranch and orchard
will be gladly received and have
proper attention .
KUUIT AND SHADE TREE 1'LAXTING.
Those who have neglected this im-
portant duty should about it at once.
No farmer can afford to neglect it. It
is the duty he owes to himself his
family and the community at large.
A country home without an orchard
and shade trees is like a homo without
children cheerless ' and desolate
looking.
With a climate and soil like
ours there can be no excuse
for the unadorned homesteads
so frequently seen in our prairie sec-
tions and still less for the absence of
health promoting fruit trees. Indif-
ference and laziness are the two chief
reasons for this deplorable state of
things. The surroundings of a farm
are a true index to the character of
the farmer and when a homestead is
seen standing in all of its native un-
adorned ugliness it may safely bo pre-
dicted that its owner is not much of a
success as a farmer and its inmates
lacking considerably in many things
that go to make up a happy home.
This view is very generally accepted
and has called forth legislative enact-
ments and private organizations hav-
ing for their object the encourage-
ment of tree planting. Texas' Arbor
Day is fixed for February 22 and de-
serves practical recognition.
My experience in tree planting is
thatit is better to plant in November
or December as the roots have more
time to grow and get ready for duty
in th3 spring. Still better late than
not at all ; and trees planted any time
this month with an average rainfall
during spring and early summer will
generally do well. Let the good
work begin and continue. Make home
attractive with fruit aad shade trees
and health and happiness will be
largely promoted.
FARM GARDENING.
This important department of farm
labor does not receive the attention it
deserves. If farmers fully realized the
benefits to be derived from a good
vegetable garden there would be less
sickness in the coun'.ry and fewer
doctors' bills to pay. Hog and hom-
iny are very good in their way but as
an unvarying diet they leave much to
be desired.
A day or two spent in the prepara-
tion and cultivation of the garden
will be found quite as profitable as the
same time spent in any other branch
of ;arm work. A thorough prepara-
tion of the soil is the first requisite of
success in gardening as in nearly all
crops. If the work has not alrea.ly
been done do it and get all seeds into
the ground that do not require very
warm weather. It this latitude it U
safe to plant almost anything except-
ing beans in the open ground on Feb-
ruary 1 and if a cold snap should
come ami nip the young plants ome
in a while it is only the seed lost its
the labor costs but little ai.d bench's
the soil for another planting
It will pay to plant a wide variety
of vegetables if doae early enough.
Our summers are too dry and hot for
gardening without irrigation but if
enily planting is practiced we ca;i
have the luxury oi' vegetables before
the seed lias been sown in the North-
ern states. By all means plant
enough Irish potatoes for home use if
not for sale. This should' be done not
biter than the first week in February
and they will be ready for use the last
week in April. He sure and plant
go id sound seed and also an early
variety. Lute kinds don't mature
before the heat of summer overtakes
them and the yield is cut short and
quality injured. There are many
varieties claiming to bo earliest and
best. I have found Earlv Hose and
Beauty of Hebron do well in the pasty
butl am this year trying Early Ohio
AUSTIN
which has a good reputation. We
may not be able to raise 733 bushels
to the acre like the winner of the
American Agriculturist's $500 prize
but I have proved that 300 bushels is
possible without the aid of a special
fertilizer or exceptional cultivation.
Farmers think over this potato ques-
tion and see if it won't pay you to vary
your field crops and raise tubers for
the Northern market. I am satisfied
it can be done and that at a large
profit.
HOG KILLING AND PORK CURING.
The exceptional mildness of this
fast vanishing winter has rendered
the saving of pork a somewhat difficult
matter. The oldest settler has some
difficulty in remembering a winter so
mild.
We have only had the temperature
below freezing twice and then only for
a few hours.
On both occasions farmers killed
more or less of their "meat hogs" but
there still remains many "eating their
heads oil" for the lack of weather cold
enough to slaughter them. A great
majority of those who killed their hogs
have lost most of their hams and
shoulders but generally saved the
sides. Those escaping loss are
credited with being lucky. Now I
don't believe in luck in farming or
even in hog killing though there may
be something in it when it conies to
lottery. 1 would rather say that the
saved hams was the result of better
management on the part of their
owner or curer. I have not lost a
single joint of meat in ten years and
if my plan is followed it will be found
a success. It is not necessary to wait
for a hard frost before killing in
fact a hard frost rather retards
than helps the curing pro-
cess. Everything being ready
for hog killing wait till the tempera-
ture falls to-somewhere between 30
and 40 with the prospect of not ris-
ing higher for twenty-four hours and
that will be at the beginning of an
ordinary winter norther. Then with
all dispatch kill clean and hang up
in a place fully exposed to the cold
air. If the animal is extra large split
it in two. The object being to get the
animal heat out of the body as early
as possible. To insure this let it hang
out all night and cut up and pack
away ear'y in the morning. In pack-
ing away use plenty of fine salt and
see that no two pieces come in con-
tact. The pelvic bone should be re-
moved from the hams the round
knuckle joint sawed oil' the marrow
scooped out and the cavity filled with
salt and well pulverized saltpetre.
The fleshy part of both ham and
shoulder should be well rubbed with
the same mixture and an incision
should be made in the shoulder pene-
trating to the joint of the shoulder
blade and a good dose of saltpetre
pressed into it.
Let the whole be packed away in a
dry dark place and completely cov-
ered with salt and in twenty or thirty
days the curing process will be com-
plete and satisfactory. I have still
two porkers to kill and fully expect to
save them.
SEED COHX.
The common practice with the av-
erage farmer is to wait till the day lie
begins planting before selecting l is
seed and then go to the crib and take
what first conies to hand.
In this part of Texas corn planting
is in full progress on March 1 and
some goahead farmers anticipate that
date by two weeks and generally
come out ahead. We have got to
risk one of two things late frost and
drouth. The former may come but
the latter will with more or less
severity.
It is wise not to carry all your eggs
m one basket and equally so to vary
the time of planting corn. If the crop
is planted at intervals of ten days from
February 18 to March 10 some or all
of it will be in at the right time.
Those who have delayed the selection
of their seed will find some trouble on
planting day to get enough for their
purpose.
The weevil has done great damage
to our crop and a sound ear of corn
is the exception.
AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
As has been well announced in
these columns this association will
hold its bi-ennial meeting in the Cap-
itol on the 17th and following days.
This is an association of farmers of
the first-class whose lives and ener-
gies are devoted to the highest of all
agricultural pursuits. The subjects
on the programme for discussion
should be of interest to every intelli-
gent farmer and fruit grower and as
the meetings arc open to all and free
as the gospel the farmers of Travis
and adjoining counties should show
their appreciation of the event by at-
tending in force.
The displayj of horticultural pro-
ducts promises to be a fine one in
spite of the unfortunate season of the
year for such an exhibition.
Silk Dresses ami ' lionni-tx
"I haven't had u silk dress .-i'lce I was
in irr' cl nor u new bonnet for three sea-
sons" ini.hiins Mrs. t.'. V. Jl. Sim de-
clares s'.ie hound to have n new ho net if
s:.e lias to work lor n. htrseif. This is true
j;r.t. hut many huti-s who would gladly
w rk hard to attain J desired ohject lire in-
iilile to do so lii-i aine they arc aiinost con-
stantly ul'ilioed Willi diseases peculiar to
ineirsex. Urawui down pains displace-
ments leucorrlica and other uterine disor-
der are the bane of many women's lives;
but Dr. Pierre's Favorite Prescription will
mr where all other compounds tail.
1 1 is the oiilv medicine for women sold by
cir;i"-'ists mider a positive guarantee from
the manufacturers that it will (jive satisfac-
tion in every case or money will beretunded.
This guarantee has been printed on the bot-
tle wrapper and faithfully carried out for
many years.
"Yes" said the rural solon.wlien he
got back from a visit to the east ; "I
was the conspicuous fUure of a great
blow out at the hotel the very nig i'. 1
arrived in New York." And he never
fcTXtj TyU oy mail buiiiu i
Wtarnrrgton Post.
WEEKLY BTiTttSttAW. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 12 HfO
THE TEXAS COAST.
ENGINEER CORTHELL TELLS WHAT HE
K0W8 OP HARBOR FACILITIES
ON Ol'R COAST.
Soma Tery Hard Blows Hit tfc l'lted
Slate Engineer "p Their lt
Drcialoa.
Th following remarks of Mr. Cor-
th-jll. civil engineer before the Senate
Committee on Commerce United
States Senate January dU win
be of interest to all Texas : Mr. Cor
theli made in substance the following
statement:
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Com
merce uoiumitiee:
Mw viurinni' as an enrineer in the
construction and examination of har
bors on the Gulf of Mexico leads me
tr r.rcant. mv views in recard to the
proposed Texas Harbor legislation now
before this committee i "vc u
nUrra nf t.ho construction or examin
ation of jetties at the mouth of the
Mississippi river oauine pass uiu-
.....tnn Viurhnr t.hft Brazos river im-
LlllUll HI. ' . '
provement the Aransas Pass Railroad
system and its terminus ai aiiui
pass the Tampico river and the
Coatzacoalcos river Mexico. I have
for fifteen years had experience in and
given close study to these important
harbor questions.
Before taking up the question im-
mediately before this commiteee I de-
sire to correct some statements that
have been made to you in regard to
the work which I have charge of as
chief engineer at the mouth of the
rivor This work as vou are
awore is being constructed by a com
pany of private individuals to wnom
you gave a concession for deepening
the mouth of this river. They have
already expended quite a sum of
money upon the improvement nac
also acquired by purchase and by the
payment of largo sums of money the
laud bordering upon the river for sev-
eral miles from the mouth have made
the location and are prepared to con-
struct a railroad leading from near
Houston to the port which they are
making and are proceeding in
a business like way with their own
money to carry out this very im-
portant undertaking. The opinion
which as an engineer I gave to this
company to the effect that the work
if conducted on the plan which I out-
lined would be entirely successful has
been fully confirmed thus far by the
results of the works aitnougn tuey
are in an unfinished condition. It
was predicted by some that while
there might be obtained by jetties
built out to deep water a depth of ten
feet this depth would shoal up to
probably less than six during the low
water season of the year. The facts
are that when the work was planned
there was only about one and one-
half feet of water on the bar directly
in front and there was only a strag-
gling channel with five feet of water
in it which turned sharply to the east-
ward inside of the bar. The works
were projected boldly across this chan-
nel and out over the bar into deep
water. Although the jet'ies thus far
have not reached the shoal part of the
bar within 1500 feet and are in an
unfinished condition leaky and low
and not consolidated yet they have
deepened the bar on which there was
only one and one-half feet of water to
ten feet and they have preserved that
depth during the very period when it
was expected that the channel would
shoal. The present depth is eight and
one-half feet caused by the jetties not
being extended to the full depth dur-
ing a rise of the river. The waters
are not concentrated across the bar
and there happens as there always
does under such conditions ft shoal-
ing and then as the jetties advance a
deepeniug with a gradually advancing
depth which proves unmistakeably
that when the jetties are carried out
to eighteen or twenty feet of water
there will be a good twenty foot chan-
nel with at least twenty-three feet
central depth and that that channel
will maintain itself against the sedi-
mentary deposits of the river and the
wave motion of the Gulf.
Senator Vest Some assistant en-
gineer sent a letter to this committee
in which he stated that there was
only seven feet of water on the bar
and tliat the jetties had been nearly
ruined by the waves and that the pil-
ing and mattress work had been
nearly eaten up by the teredo. What
have you to say to this Mr. Corthell?
Mr. Corthell I am positive from
advices received today bv wire from
the Brazos that there is just the
channel that I stated 8A feet that
the jetties arc in an excellent state of
preservation and that there has been
no indication of the teredo in woik
since the 1st of last November and
th.it the action of the teredo is con-
fined mo tl v to some piling which
the contractor who was building the
worKs extended too far out to sea
against the prot st of the engineer.
The channel conip ny has now taken
charge of the work itself and it is to
be conducted directly under the super-
vision of the engineer. I wish to s:iy
to the members of the committee
who ttill recollect the contest that
took place over the South pass jetties
that we are having the same old
fright again and I appeal to the com-
mittee and to congress which has
given to this company this important
charter for the improvement of the
mouth of this river not to heed the
reports which are intended to malign
and injure the enterprise and to give
us your moral support and sympathy
in this contest which all such works
have with the forces of nature. I can
as an engineer long engaged on such
work assure you that there is com-
plete success before us and that we
will open up by these works a Tery im-
portant commercial port and provide
an entrance for vessels sufficiently
large for the commerce of the Gulf of
Mexico and that we can by a not ex-
pensive extension of these jetties in-
crease the depth to twenty-five feet.
Coining to the question now before
this committee it is important first to
call your attention to the manner in
which the board of engineers which
recently made a report on a deep
water harbor on the Gulf of Mexico
have arrived at their conclusion which
was that Galveston should be selected
for this port from the fact that it and
it only complied with the require
ments of the resolution of congress
which was that they should make a
"report as to the most eligible point or
points for a deep harbor to be of am-
ple depth width and capacity to ac-
commodate the largest ocean-going
vessel and the commercial and naval
necessities of the country which can
be secured and maintained in the
shortest time and at the least cost."
This board evidently determined this
whole question before they left their
office in Philadelphia and their action
in going to Texas for the purpose of
examining harbors and conferring with
the people was simply a farce. In
this report the board fixes the follow-
ing channel as required by the act
namely : a width at surface of water
of not less than 2000 feet a depth of
not less than thirty feet for a width of
GOO feet and a cross-sectional area of j
43000 square feet. It mattered little!
to them as they practically stated
what the capacity might be of the in-
terior harbor or the dockage space for
vessels provided the entrance chan-
nel should be as large as they had
agreed upon. I contend and I think
you will agree with me that these re-
quirements for an entrance channel
are extravagant and unnecessary and
that iu selecting them great injustice
was done the other ports which
are capable of very considerable im-
provement and of being made entire-
ly adequate for the largest vessels
that will either in the near or per-
haps distant future do business
along the gulf coast. I think all of
you are satisfied wit.h the splendid
channel results that have been ob-
tained at the entrance to the harbor
of New Orleans at the mouth of the
Mississippi river. The largest freight
carriers of the world come into and go
out of that port s jme of them laden
to a depth of 27 feet and carrying im-
mense cargoes and that without hin-
drance or any difficulty whatever. In
fact the whole Mississippi Valley is
proud of the grand success of the im
portant works which were undertaken
and so satisfactorily completed by the
late Mr. Ends. This being the case
let me inform you what the size of
the channel is through which this im-
mense traffic passes. Instead of being
2000 feet wide as is required by this
Board of United States engineers it is
only 700 feet wide. Its depth is fully
equal to that required bv law and is
26 feet with a width of 200 feet at that
depth and with a central depth of 150
feet without regard to width. The
channel demanded by the board is 30
feet deep and COO feet wide at that
depth which of course would give a
central depth of about 37 feet. The
cross sectional area of the Mississippi
Jetty channel is about 13400 feet.
The area demanded by the board is
43000 feet more than three times as
great. The difference between the
two channels will be better appreciat
ed by the diagram which I now show
to vou and on which both channels
are plotted on the same scale. Now
such a channel as that at the moulh
of the Mississippi which all know to
be adequate certainly for all
of the navigation of the
coast of Texas can be obtained both
at Sabine Pass and at Aransas Pass.
There is no doubt of this in the minds
of anyone who has given any atten
tion to the subject. In fact at either
place a still larger channel than 700
feet in width can be obtained aud with
fully as great a depth as that at the
mouth of the Mississippi river. Hav-
ing proven that such a channel is suf-
ficiently large for commerce and I
might say the very commerce
whica congress had in view
in enacting the resolutions
calling for this report of the
board in which it is stated that the
size of the inner harbor is of very
little importance as it can always be
enlarged by dredging to suit the de
mands of commerce the injustice ( f
selecting one port as the only port for
a deep harbor int tead of these other
points is plainly seen. At Sabine
Pass there is no question of ultimately
obtaining deep water at a reasonable
cost. At Galveston the problem is
Still unsolved. iue government en
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pincers have been experimenting for
a (inarter ot a century and it i doubt
ful if they have increased the d pth of
water over the bar more th-in a few
inches while iu doing ho they have
pushed the bar seaward several hun-
dred feet.
Now as to Sabine Pass. The Sabine
and Necln:. rivers discharge into a
Like about fifteen miles iu length
l'le; sedimentary matters are dropped
here and iue fresh water volume Hows
through the lake and through Sabine
Pass about six miles long out into
the Gulf of Mexico. The volume of
fresh water is at times very considera-
ble as the drainng'J area is nearly 21-
000 square miles. The average flood
discharge oi these two rivers is about
50000 cubit feet per second some-
times reaching 75000 or fully as
great as tiiat of South Pass
and perhaps greater. If we add the
tidal volume which at ebb Hows seu-
ward to this river volume we have
at times 125000 cubic feet of water
per second moving through the pass
and out over the bar into the gulf.
The size of the pass itself shows what
size of channel could be made through
the bar. The twenty-five-foot channel
is interrupted in only two places by
hoals in a length of 22500 fe.t and
is fully 200 feet wide at that depth. !
The twenty-foot chanel is nearly
32000 feet long or about six miles.
Unfortunately however the govern-
ment engineers considered that eight-
een or twenty feet of water was all that
would ever be required at Sibine Pass
and they placed the jetties so far apart
that it is extremely doubtful if even
this depth will ever be secured even
if the jetties are built out to the Gulf.
Instead of placing them 800 or 1000
feet apart and thus surely obtaining
a good twenty-six foot channel they
placed them 2200 feet apart ltecog-
nizing that a great mistake was made
they have attempted to draw them
into a narrower width ; but even if
they should be extended to a depth of
twenty-seven feet in the gulf they
would be at that point one thousand
eight hundred feet apart fully twice
the distance apart that they should
be. The only possible way to rectify
this grievous mistake is by building
many long wings out from the main
jetty or an interior jetty at consider
able expense.
Concerning the harbor areas which
there will be for navigation inside of the
bartherei8 between the twenty-five foot
curves lib acres wiine at lialveston
there is but 1(30 acres in the in-
ner harbor. If the channel at Sa
bine pass is widened in order to obtain
material for lilting the crouiid alone-1
side the pass there willbgdded over
zoo more acres to tins area. s
It has been asserted thatithe
ground is a low swamp and unfit
lor commercial purposes. Ibis is a
mistake. The ground is hard is above
any tides but storm tides and by
raising it three or lour feet winch can
be done at a moderate expense there
will be in area that can be devoted to
commercial purposes and I have no
doubt that the ground is sufficiently
solid to carry the largest structures
upon it such as elevators and other
buildiugs. I am perfectly frank in
saying thothaving been interested in
all the harbor projects along the coast
of Texas I bear no ill-will to any of
them particularly Galveston where
the government certainly ought to
continue and complete its work and
give this important city an adequate
harbor entrance. My object in ap-
pearing before you is to urge appro
priations for other points which have
been summarily dismissed by tins
board of United States engineers
left out in the cold and to present
some of the leading engineering
points in this discussion. In this
country with our largo rivers we are
apt to not entirely appreciate the
value of what we consider inferior fa-
cilities for commerce. In the older
countries a large number of the most
important ports where an immense
navigation goes in and out have a
comparatively restricted channel. The
Brazos river or the South pass of the
Mississippi river would either of
them be considered of immense value
in nearly every port in Europe It is
well known that the river Clyde was
formerly a slough which was deepen
ed by most expensive dredging. It is
also well known that a vast amount
of shipping visits that port and that
some of the largest vessels in the
world are built upon this nanow
stream. I have only to call your at
tention to a narrow river on one of our
great lakes where a tonnage of over
8000000 and vessels numbering over
22000 are accommodated without
difficulty every year and in
a channel not over 250 feet
wide. I refer to the port of
Chicago and Senator Cullum will bear
me out in that statement. At one of
the mouths of the Danube a very
large navigation goes in and out for
five different European kingdoms and
this channel and the work wnicn ac
complished it are of very great im-
portance in Europe ; yet the effective
width of tne entrance channel is only
550 feet.
You will more fully appreciate the
size of your harbor entrauces from the
sizes of those in European countries
where a large commercial business is
done much larger in some of them
than we could hope to have for a time
at our proposed Gulf ports. The
Brazos which the war department
threw overboard as unworthy of im-
provement ranks with some of the
largest harbor entrances in Europe
and is double the size of many of
them. Aberdeen harbor a large port
in France 250 feet ; Calais France
(and one of its most important ports)
400 feet ; Ostend the port for Brus-
sels Belgium less than 500 feet ; Dun-
kirk on the North sea 200 feet;
Ymuiden the harbor entrance to the
Amsterdam ship canil 800 feet;
Leith an important British port 250
feet; the river Thame at London
where some of the largest docks in the
world are is not over 450 to 500 feet
wide; Hartlepool harbor England has
an entrance 275 feet wide ; Belfast
Ireland 250 feet.
This list could be indefinitely ex
tended but I have I think estab-
lished the right on behalf of the en
tire coast line of lexas (excepting
Galveston only) and of the immense
country north of it to express a
righteous indignation at tne un
just decision of and the extravagant
dimensions tixed t.y tins uoaru
of United States engineers thus deal-
in'' a death blow at the commercial
interests and welfare of millions of
neonle and millions of property de
pendent upon a speedy outlet to the
world through ttie bars lying ai me
doors of their rivers and estuaries.
This extraordinary and coolly prear-
ranged decicion of this board has to
my knowledge but one parallel in the
commercial and engineering history
of the world. M. DeLesseps through
h. relative came into the ownership of
a concession from the United States of
Colombia for a ship canal. To enable
him to raise the hinds for its construc-
tion and give it great eclat at the start
be invited the civilized governments
of the world to send their representa-
tives to a grand international con-
gress to be held in Paris to determine
where a ship canal should be built
along the 1500 miles of the American
isthmus. He with exceeding adroit-
ness compelled the congress to fix
upon his route by first having a reso-
lution adopted to the effect that if a
canal was to be built at all it was the
sense of the congress that a sea level
canal was to be preferred; second
that if a sea level canal was the bet-
ter then it was the views of the con-
gress that it should be constructed at
that part ot the isthmus where it was
narrow; and third the two first hav
ing been decided upon the best loca
tion would be where there had been.
if anywhere already opened up. a con-
nection between the oceans by rail.
All adopted. When the United States
and Mexican delegates too late awoke
to the fact that only Panama com
plied with these conditions the board
of United States engineers adopted
resolutions: First that the entrance
channel should be 2000 feet wide:
second that it should be thirty feet
deep and (iOO feet wide at that depth ;
third the first two being adopted
the area must be 43000 square feet.
Of all the harbors proposed only one
complied with the conditions of the
resolution Galveston.
In this connection letnio call to the
mind of this committee the dimen-
sions which Mr. Eads agreed to cive
to the Galveston channel entrance in
senate billl652 Forty-eighth congress
hrst session reported Jback favorably
by this very committee soveral mem-
bers now in it being members then.
The language of the bill was: "Said
maximum channel shall have a dentil
of 2( feet not less than 200 feet in
width at the bottom and having
through it a central depth of 30 feet
without regard to width." These
words are in italics in the bill indi-
cating that you yourselves fixed those
dimensions. This bill was before con
gress for many months. I recollect of
no objection being urged here to these
dimensions. If congress had passed
this bill I am entirely safe in saying
and with your emphatic assent that
Galveston would now have the chan-
nel required by the bill and I am fur-
ther entirely safe in saying that there
would bo no complaints as to its di
mensions.
Referring to another harbor west of
Galveston which was also thrown out
by the arbitrary ruling of the board a
channel of adequate depth and width
can be obtained at a moderate ex-
pense. I referto Aransas Pass. This
is the terminus of what is now fast
getting to be one of the most import-
ant railroad systems in the southwest.
It lies in a convenient position to re--ceivo
the commerce of an immense-
torritory tributary to it. There is no.
doubt that with the money esti-
mated by the board a good 20 foot
channel can be obtained here and the
slopo of the outer bar is so steep gulf-
ward that a channel 20 feet in depth
can be obtained with a reasonable. '
expenditure of money.
Had n Good Timet
"Danced all night till broad day-light
And went home with the girls iu the morn-
ing." But the morning being chilly he
took a heavy cold and a bad cough
resulted consumption set iu his case-
despite the efforts of a physician
grew worse until friends began to lose
hope ; one however knew from trial
the value of Dr. Pierce's Golden Med-
ical Discovery and induced him to
take it. A mighty "change came o'er
the spirit of his dreams." Its contin-
ued use restored him to health and
fortune He lives to-day to bless Dr.
Pierce for his medicine and soon will
wed a charming girl ono of those lie
"took home in the morning." If Colds
Consumption Catarrh Bronchitis or
other throat or lung troubles attack
you don t delay getting the "Discov-
ery." .
JAIL BIRDS.
List of Prisoner
now
Jail.
Cou fined In the
"How many prisoners have you got
in jail Mr. Brown?" asked the repor
ter.
"Haven't counted 'em lately"and
don't exactly know how many. Here's
the list and you can see for yourself"
and the jailer handed over the follow-
ing list of names :
Henry Wilson colored; theft.
Ed. Williams colored ; theft.
Willie Craddock colored; theft.
Charley Cook white; theft.
I. S. Morris white ; forgery.
W. B. Mullen white; forgery.
Bcrthia Uutroeres Mexican.
Harrison Mack colored; murder.
Jot-eph Sackee Arab; assault to
rape.
Mike Oats white; peace bond.
Andrew Jackson colored; fine.
Joe Burchard colored; tine.
Eph Blunt colored; line.
Harriet Howard colored ; fine.
Mary Tyson colored ; fine.
I.a (irie Weakening.
"How'h the irrin. doctor?" asked tho
reporter yesterday as ho met Dr.
uragg.
"i think the epidemic is about over
but the diseases which follow it seem
to be pretty bad and I'm kept busy.
I have several very bad cases from the
ellects of the crin but 1 tiunK
they
will all get well."
Wanted to Jie Heard From.
If any uerson has ever (jiven Dr. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy a fair tnul and lias not
been perfectly ami permanently cured.that
person should write ibe proprietors of that
wonderful remedy for they are in dead
earnest and "mean business" when they
oh'er $500 reward for a case of nasal cutarrh
no matter how bad or of how Ioiik btand-
ing which they cannot cure. The Remedy
is sold by druggist at only 60 cents. It is
mild. WMithiiiK deodorizing anti-septic
C 'ritntiiiK ami h"iilin".
The man wiio lonea is never accused
of not playing fair. Atchison Globe.
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