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SGHULENBURG, FAYETTE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1909
NO. 21
HEAD OF MARINE CORPS
T.
Iqu. George F. Elliott, commander of the
United States marine corps, is as much at a loss
as the general public to tell the reason for the
late order of President Roosevelt taking the
marine corps oC the battleships and relegating
them to duty o* land. Does it mean the gradual
elimination of this splendid organization of
lighting men?
The marine gprps was organised in 1775, and
has since been an important Institution in the
naval department. It has added much glory to
the story of American arms, and has played a
prominent part In every great achievement the
notion can boast. The marines have fought,
bled and died in every war under the flag, and a
simple recital of the deeds of heroism would All
volume*.
They were with John Paul Jones on the Ben Homme Richard when he
fought the Serapis, and out of 137 men on that ship 49 were killed or wound-
ed before the British terror struck its colors, la the revolution, the war
against Tripoli, the war of '12, the Mexiean war, the Chinese Boxer uprising,
the civil and the more regent wars they played an important part.
Gen. Elliott Is an Alabama man, who enlisted in the corps in 1870 and
has been its commander since 1908. In the interim he has served in prac-
tically all the intermediate grades. The official records have much to say of
Ma judgment and personal gallantry.
Have You Noticed?
Most politicians are "Iron men"
Tou'll notice about the town;
And that's why they look so rusty whea
The party throws them down.
^-Chicago Dally Nt wa
SAVING TIME.
Clerk—I'm sorry, but you can't see
the editor just now. <
Poet—Oh, then, would you mind
putting this poem in the waste-paper
basket?
: Has It?
Has it leaked into your gray matter beds
While conning o'er the poet's works
sublime
That it is not big feet, but
heads •• - • r
; Which leave the footprints on the sands
of time?
gbod-i
Of Two Evils.
first Guest—Won't you join me In
requesting young Squalls to recite?
Second Guest—But I don't like reci-
tations.
first Guest—Neither do I; but if
the young beggar doesn't recite, he'H
sing.
Judging by the Salary.
Prince Chun is to get a salary of
,000 a year for acting as regent
In the estimation of John Hayes
I suppose the regency of
t be much of a job."—Chi-
Record-Herald.
Experienced.
: Manager (who has advertised for a
floor-walker)—Have you had any ex-
perience?
Applicant—We have had twins in
our family twice.—Judge. 1
The Usual Meaning.
•'What does it mean when a ten-del-
laV-a-week clerk sends a girl a dozen
roses at '|12 per' for Christmas?"
"Is nsually means that he has
pawned Ms watch."—Judge.
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* Hideously Up-to-Date.
Clara—What a perfectly
potm of yours!
Maud—Do you really like itt
"Immensely. It is so hideously
te-date."—Life,
lovely
A Man of Experience.
Wdary—A dog is one o' the few ani-
mals that'll follow a man.
Walker—Yes; one was follerin* me
yesterday so fast I could hardly keep
a'ead of It.
Not Dangerous.
Pat—I hear yer woife is sick, Moike.
, Mike—She is thot
i Pat—Is it dangerous she is?
Mike—Divil a bit. She's too weah
to be dangerous any more!
Selling Day-Old Chicks.
It may surprise many of our readers
to hear that an extensive traffic is be-
ing carried on in some parts of the
country by selling chicks a day old in
the place of "eggs for hatching." Ex-
perience has proved that they can be
shipped in safety (or long distances
with less loss than is the case with
eggs. In describing his visit to three
institutions whose business it is to
ship chickens as soon a they are
hatched* A. I. Root, In Gleanings in
Bee Culture, has the following to say:
"At the first place visited this Ship-
ping day is Tuesday and I suppose
their incubators are started so as to
have chicks come Out, say on Mon-
day. On Tuesday the chicks would be
dried off enough to put in little paste-
board boxes holding not less than 25
which can be sent by express even in
cold weather. As small a number as
ten can be sent safely after May 1.
Twenty-five chicks in a box weigh
only four pounds.! You see they are
lighter than eggs. I presume some
arrangement is made with the express
companies so there shalJL |ie no demy.
The lay I was there, Tuesday, they
had sent out about 6,000 chicks. I
had a box of 15 of different kinds that
I brought home to experiment with
in my home-made -fireless' brooder.
The prices run from 7 to 15 cents. The
Leghorns are usually the cheapest.
They also make special low rates on
all. ^ie 'odds and ends' that are
left. I supposed at first that they
had poultry yards of sufficient capacity
to produce their own eggs for hatch-
ing; but I learned that this was next
lo impossible. They get their eggs
from farmers and others in their vi-
cinity who produce them for this par-
ticular purpose, the proprietors of the
hatchery probably furnishing the stock.
I judge this to be so, because they
have some very choice high-priced
stock. All the parties engaged in the
business told me they had very few
losses. The package of chickens is
opened in the presence of the express
agent, and he certifies to the number
of dead, if any. The shipper then re-
places these with another shipment or
makes some satisfactory arrangement,
if the number lost is small. A ship-
ment made from New Washington, c .,
to Tampa, Fla., occupying four days,
was received in very good order and
the chicks did not seem to be much
the Worse for haying lived four days
without food or water. In fact, I
believe the general decision is that
chicks are better Off without anything
to eat for at least 48 hours after they
break the shell. Of course, it is im-
portant that the purchaser be on hand
at the express Office to take charge of
the chicks just as soon as they are
received.
"The firm claims they can furnish
hatched chickens at just about double
the price you would have to pay for
eggs of the same kind; and I judge
there is but very litte difficulty in rais-
ing the chickens by our best modern
method safter they are once hatched,
If this were not so, the customers of
former years would not be patronizing
these same establishments year after
year."
Mr. Root sees in this Industry an-
other indication of the tendency to
specialize all branches of farming
and thinks it offers freat inducements
to boys and women. In fact, one of
the establishments he visited was run
by twp boys.—Journal of Agriculture.
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So Loosen.Up That
Purse String And Call
Before the Best Goods
are Gone
Get our Prices on
SEED POTATOES
We have them now
Heuhaus Cash Store.
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For the Sake of Sensation.
**We ate our rubber boots."
"Provisions run out?"
"No; bat the explorer thought II
Blight add interest to hi* lecture when
he got homi," _ j \
A Tantalizing Trip.
Miss Astorbllt—What is the matter
with your father? Is he suffering from
seasickness ?
Miss Yellowbacks—Oh, no; but it al-
ways makes pa blue to cross the At-
lantic. It makes him so sore to think
that he can't buy up the land under
the ocean and charge the steamship
companies big rent for the privilege of
passing over it.—Puck.
THE KANGAROO GIRL.
Rer features are peachy, her eyes are
bright,
Her lips are for kisses that clasp and
woo, i
Her nock Is' a carving of creamy white—
But
Why
Dees
Sh« j
Walk
Like
i A i
Kangaroo!
I
Her hair Is a midnight of maddening joy,
Her form is a Psyche's and swains
would sue
And Cupid would capture-the wise
young boy!—
Except
That
She
Walks
Like
A
Kangaroo!
Her mother, I think, doesn't know she's
out.
For mothers are wiso and discreet and
true;
And if they but knew what their girls
are about.
Not
One
Would
Thus
Walk
Like
A
Kangaroo!
—Itobertus Love, in Judge.
Less, If 8he Kicked.
Customer—What is the price of tho
duck?
Little Girl—Please, mum, It's threo
shillings. But mother says, if you
grumbled, it's two-an-six!—Punch. ,
In the Shop.
The lady had looked at about 20
trunks without finding one to her sat*
isfaction. At length the salesman sug-
gested that if she could give him an
idea of what she had in mind ho
might be able to suit her.
"I want," said the lady, impressive-
ly, "a smaller trunk than this, but one
that holds more."—New York Herald.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT
DEPOSED CHINESE PREMIER
Brain is a coarse, fibrous food not
adapted to the digestif* organs of
the pig.
Avoiding the Risk.
"Papa's going to give us a check at
the wedding, instead of a present,
Tom."
"All right; we'll have the ceremony
at high noon, then, instead of at four
o'clock!"
"Why, what for, dear?"
"Banks close at three."—Chicago
Journal.
Good Reason Why.
Lady of the House (in a new apart-
ment)—Have you noticed, Anna, that
the men always look up here when I
am sitting at the window?
Anna (the maid)—Naturally, ma-
dame, for in the wall under the win-
dow there is a clock.—Meggendorfer
Blaetter.
. Yuan Shi Kai, premier of China, who has
been stripped of all of his offices and power, was
regarded as one of the most progressive States-
men of the -oriental empire. After embarking on
his official career he was chiefly occupied for
many years with military matters. He was
among the first of Chinese officers to study for-
eign methods of organization and tactics and to
appreciate the necessity for modernizing the
Chinese army.
He showed such capacity that he was de-
tailed to "superintend the reorganization of the
Corean army, and for a time, just prior to the
China-Japan war, he was Chinese resident at
Seoul. He served in the disastrous—to China—
war against Japan without serious loss of repu-
tation and prestige, which marked him as a man
of exceptional ability.
Yuan was not the father of the reform movement in China, but he set it
on its legs. Able and ambitious, he saw in the vacancy created by the death
of Li Hung Chang his own opportunity to become the largest figure in Chinese
politics. He had read the lessons of the China-Japan war and the "Boxer" dis-
order aright. He realized that a great change was inevitable.
Reformers were already lifting their voices in the land; had, in fact, been
declaiming advanced doctrines for years whenever they dared, and some had
suffered banishment or death in the cause. Yuan took stock of the condition
of the empire, of the moribund and timid court party in Peking, and the signs
of the times; and he seems to have concluded that he could ride into power
on a reform wave.
It was Yuan who organized the modern Chinese army, dropped out the
spearsmen and the bowmen and the bearers of stink-pots and the makers of
loud noises, and substituted wsll drilled, khaki-clad soldiers, educated by
European officers.
During the Boxer uprising, with his well trained troops, Yuan was almost
tho only viceroy in China able to extend protection to foreign life and prop-
erty, and in his latter position, with extended powers, he had planned to make
tho Chinese national army a force to be reckoned with by any nation.
He has been called the strongest man in China since Li Hung Chang. He
is a thoroughly practical man and brought business methods to the adminis-
tration of the empire. He worked assiduously for the advancement o£ the
middle .kingdom, and his watshword was that China was capable of accom-
plishing just as much as had Japan.
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ENVOY TO VENEZUELA
William 3. Buchanan, who has gone to Vene-
zuela'on the United States eruiser North Caro-
lina, is carrring in his insid« poeket credentials
from this gowsrnment. as a special
He is, according to the announce:
given out ia Washington, to look int_ „
in Castro's dooryard and report. But there is a
well-defined suspicion In the minds of many
newspaper readers that he is likely to go further
than that. The temper of Uncle Sam's present
administration toward Castro has been of a sort
lately to justify the suggestion that Vice-Presi-.
dent Gomes, acting president of Venezuela dur-
ing Castro's absence, would find it very easily
arranged to secure the strongest sort of support
from the United States in case ho should decide
to defy tho absent executive, grab the throne,
turn out the remaining fiew of Castro's ministers, lieutenants, judges and
friends, and enter into the rUJht sort of a trade and reciprocal agreement with
this country. . i
Buchanan's diplomatic ability has been polished and finished by his con-
nection with several worldPs fairs. In fact, this especial form of amusement
has become almost a paseion with him. He first contracted the habit in
1890, when he was named by Iowa as its member of the World's Columbian
commission which had charge of the Chicago fair. He was at the head of
several allied departments of that exposition. He was director general of the
Pan-American exposition at Buffalo in 1901, and has been connected in some
capacity or other, actual or honorary, with most of the other big fairs held
here. Incidentally, he was our first minister to Panama.
NEW GERMAN AMBASSADOR
Count von Bernstorff, successor to the late
Baron Sfeeok von Sternburg as ambassador from
the cenut of Berlin to the United States, and
who rcwesitly arrived in Washington, is a typical
.German in appearance. He is tall, of a sUght
figure, wears a blonde mustache, and Is accom-
plished, cultured and splendidly educated. He
speaks English fluently. He is athletic and looks
remarkably young for his age, which is 46 years.
Of distinguished appearance, he looks the
picture of resourcefulness, and he is gifted to
a degree with the attributes of character and
disposition necessary to a diplomat. A year
ago he was appointed consul general at Cairo.
It was ftrom that post that he came to Washing-
ton. Ho was born In London in 1862, when his
father was stationed there as ambassador, and
possesses his diplomatic, capacity as much, ppssibly, from heredity as from
his own experience.
During the coronation he was secretary of the German embassy In St
Petersburg, and for five years was secretary of the German embassy in Lon-
don. He has had, ia addition wide experience on the continent of Europe
and is regarded as one of the most accomplished men in the German foreign
service.
He began his diplomatic career in 1899, when he was made aftaehe at
Constantinople. From Turkey he was transferred to the foreign office ia Ber-
lin, after which he served in various embassies at Belgrade, Dresden, St.
Petersburg and Munich. Whea ha went to London, in 1902, he won the favor
of Emperor William by his work in ameliorating the ill-feeling against Ger-
many which prevailed in Great Britain. His detail to the Cairo post was his
next assignment He was first diplomatic agent and consul general, but was
raised to the rank of minister early in 1908.
He is the fourth son of Count AJtorecht von Bernstortf, who was a dis-
tinguished contemporary of Bismarck. He hss an American-born wife. His
father also married an American adfs, Amerika Riedesel, Baroness Za Eisen-
bach, who was born in New York.
Endless Job.
"Sisyphus had to roll a stoae Hp ft
hill. His toll was unremitting."
Unfamiliar Name.
"I suppose," said the sad-eyed youth
at the musical eveaing, "you know
'I don't know much shout mytbM the difference between bel canto ant
ogy," responded the head of a fashifl* .
able family, "but I see the point. H \
was something like rolling up a jgao
coloratura?'
"Young man," observed Mr. Cum*
rox, severely, "I never bet on raoa
taao."
t horses.
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Winfree, Raymond. The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 21, 1909, newspaper, January 21, 1909; Schulenburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth189325/m1/1/: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Schulenburg Public Library.