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Memorial to Henry W. Grady
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friends will show it to their neighbors
and ask them to subscribe, this can be
accomplished before January 1, 1890.
Let 'each of our present subscribers
send in at least one new subscriber. You
can do it. The Tikes is one of the best
Democratic papers in East Texas and
stands strictly upon its own merits. Try
it.
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VOLUME XXXI
HENDERSON. RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1890-
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NUMBER 4
Mind aud heart
by fannie spear yocxo.
The sun has set at midday. Henry Grady
The young, the brilliant, ends his course
in one
Resplendent outburst.
and soul
In that last effort speak. Tremonlous as
Some fierce, unending quake, tU.u rends
and breaks
Earth's every part asunder, are his words.
The nation hears! And e'er, like echo
tones
From out the limitless beyond, will come
The thoughts he breathed, to bind both
heart and hand
To do a nation's right.
Nay. not in vain
His life, tho'short. The sun that comes
from morn
Unchecked by halting darkness, proud,
undimmed
By clouds upon the gilded heavens will
* A path of glory make from farthest east.
A specialty was Henry W. Grady—
In truth the perfect statesman of his time;
The man who lived a life o'er-full of deeds
Of good—of good for nation, state and
church;
For office and for sunny home; where
claim s
Of rich and poor alike were heard, and
ne'er
But one did he deny, and that was self.
No ancient Grecian hero victory
Like this did win A conquered self!
Subdued
On earth, in Heaven freed forever.
Lo!
In tripidation I would offer tlii-i,
As tribute small but full of purest love,
To th' mother, in whose care the plastic
touch
Of wisdom's fingers found embodiment.
Longview, Texas.
A WOMAN'S VIEW OP THE
SITUATION.
He lnved ter ketch the rabbits, the
foxes an' the coon;
He luyed ter rock in rocking cheers,
an' go to sleep at noon.
My husban' quotes the Bible erbout
the "sparrer's fall,"
But him that quotes the Scripters
had better quote it all.
Annuther tex' that's plainly writ, hit
cums ter me jest now,
Er man mus' earn his livin' by the
sweat ur his own brow.
That tex' don't say er man can strut
eroun' 'neath an umbreller,
An' have his sweatm' fer him done
by some other feller,
An' tfit his cloze an' vittles fruni er
man that works in town,
An' pay him back in cussin' when he
sen's hfs bill er roun'.
Now, who mus' bear our losses, my
husban' or this man,
Who's fed an' clothed us all the year,
since fust the year began?
I've studied on this subjeck, I've
think er long time sho,
An' I've perused the merchant when
I've traded in his sto',
An' I will tell the truth ef they hafig
me to er iim,
The farmer has er easy time, now
jes' compared with him.
He takes no rest from weary toil, fer
him no holiday,
An ef at last he gets his dues, the
labor's wuth his pay,
Altho' he sont the bailiff that tuck-
er way our corn,
We'd eai en more than that of his as
you :;r born
Fer which we never paid a cent; and
I raly blush fer shame,
To hear our people 'busin men that
hazzent bin ter blame.
A merchant holds e r mortgage now
he hoi's it in his han,
On this roof erbyve my chillens heds,
an' on our little Ian,
Yet he never has foreclosed it, but
has struggled year by year,
To pay his own creditness, an' never
sturbed us here! *
! Lord knows that I am grateful, an' I
want our folks to know,
Ef it hadden been fer him they cuss,
I'd perished long ago.
He's taken all the licks he's got, an'
never made er moan,
An' when at last they laid him low,
I'll put on his headstone,
Er message fer the farmers ef enny
one attends:
"This honest merchant's heart was
broke frum trustin of his friens."
An' now I'll say in endin, I know
how wiminin feel,
Ef we wuz men, an' had ther chance,
we wouldn' starve nor steal,
Nor beg, nor whine, nor make sich
fuss, Lord knows fur one I'd try
Tel make my bread by honest toil,
I'd do it or I'd die.
! The iolks that work with all their
IN THE SADDLE!
INTERESTING ITEMS "PICK-
ED UP HERE AND THERE
RY OUR TRAVELING
CORRESPONDENT.
More About Shiloh and Her
Enterprising Citizens — A
Sketch of Zion Hill, the
Mansinger Settlement,
"The Last Ear of Corn."
Revised and Corrected by the Constitution.
I red what my old man has writ, in
the paper in Atlanty,
Erbout our troubles, loss and debts,
an' "Crismus without Santy."
I red hit ter the chilluns, and they
wuz mighty proud.
To see sich poetry dad writ, but Jim-
mie up an' lowed:
"Hit's mighty pretty, that's a fac', j
but Law! what would folks say,
Ef ma, you'd write ther troth on pap,
an' tell it yore own way.
Altho' you're not what they call, an
eddicated lady,
The Constitution'U give you room,
je.s' trus' ter Mr. Grady."
An' then that boy fotcli pen an' ink
an' hunted un my specks
''Come, ma," he sez, "now do it,
speak fer the female sects."
"Hut Laws!" I sez, ' why Jimniie," I
ups and sez I then,
"Why jes' ter think ur yore ole ma
er sassm other men!
Tiio' 1 have had my 'pinions, I've
kep' um mighty still,
Fer forty year, or more, but now, j
raly blieve I will—
I'll grab the pen yore daddy yused, \ might, frum dawn till set ot day,
fer wunst Ml make her talk, 0n Georgy soil, has got enuft ter eat
But, Jimmie, ef he tins hit out, yore ; ''ln n'vu er way-
mammy'll have ter walk!" ''1'°' su,n *ias 20t n0 cor" bekase,
So, Mr. Grady, this is how I'm writin ! though they have delved an' dug,
you this letter ! Thay never put no corn 111 sacks,
Ter tell the truth erbout our craps; thay kep hit in er jug!
my old man knowed no better Perhaps 1 d better say no more, my
Than ter lay our loss on drouths an' incanin you ean guess,
floods, when he was sich a shirk* I A"' S(? I think I'll stop right here,
Them craps wuz ruined long afore, hit maybe is the bes.
AND THE PEOPLE THEREOF
Special to The Times.
This community (Shiloh) comes as
near being on a cash footing as any
in the county, though none of its
citizens can be considered wealthy.
Messrs. Tom Scoggins, John. Gil-
broth, R. W. Williams and L. D.
Hudson seem to be in the best cir-
cumstances They
do not owe a do li. ah,
and have money enough to keep
them on the safe side of independ-
ence. Here upon these everlasting
hills also reside those sterling citi-
zens, "Unci'-"' Frank Parker, Wylie
M. Pierce, Jordan Goodwin, and
many others which space forbids us
to mention.
To the good people of Shiloh your
correspondent is under a thousand
obligations for favors so liberally
bestowed upon him during his
momentary stay id their progressive
midst.
Before closing our few scribbles
about Shiloh, we have decided to
give The Times and its many read-
ers the "Green Rat Story," which
the* natives kindly gave to your cor-
respondent. Every man in the j
southern portion of the county
knows "painter" Green, aiul iiis
many curious Vales he tells—so here
goes one of his latest, in his own
words, as he told a Shiloh man: "I
was coming from 'Enderson late one
evening, and when I' got 'alt' mile
ol' 'ome I met three 'uiulred rats,
and in the lead there was an old
blind gray rat with a s.iek in his
month and two big black rats beside |
him holding each end of the stick
in their mouths, leading the old gray!
along. When my 'orse saw tliei
jes' ter the lack er work!
lie scd our cotton ''shed hit's fruit,"
and hit was "powerful short,"
But law! sum naybors jinin' us, had
quiteernother sort.
They never sot up in er porch, an'
Iff' hit fer er nigger
Ter make er crap, and then cussed
'roun bekase hit wuzzent bigger.
Erbout that drouth the truth is this,
the drouth hit don't much hurt
When a good peart mule, an' man be-
lime, keeps stirrin' lip the dirt.
But when er man gives up the fight,
an' sets down in ther shade,
I tell you, sir, lut ar a fack, no honest
liven's made!
The flood hit cum, I'll not deny that
we had trouble which
Jes' cum frum this, them low lan's
drown'd whar he'd not cleaned
er ditch,
An' then he plum gin up, he did, an'
flopped down on ther bed.
"Hit is the Lawd's will,'' would you
believe, was what the critter sed.
But when I red what he has writ er-
bout our plow mule's deih,
I laffed an' cried together tell I like
ter los' my breth!
Why, sir, he kilt that po' ole beast,
he broke her plum clean down,
Er tendin' "liance meetin's, er ridin'
her ter town!
Er skeleton she were, with a so' op-
pon her back,
An' she died uv thirst an' hunger,
hitched to er town hoss rack. jf you show the weapon to your
Er nother pi.it he's touched oppon, j fr;emls Qn the streut or a„ow
our«killm "Jimmiessteer. !
But raly, now, that po' ole ox, he | an ° cel to 10W you carry it,
<1 id n't so much keer, you will be arrested. This is the
He had no pleasure in this life, it first time I have ever been asked for
had bin menny er day, j a ponuit by a woman
As the lady left the oflict, she re-
But jes' one word—my husband's
writ uv leavin' this here worl',
An' settin'round them golden streets,
ergin them gates er pearl.
But law! he is so lazy, ef the angels
don't look sharp,
He'll take er long er nigger fer ter
help him play his harp!
An' now ef enny ax my name, I'd
druther you'd keep shady,
An' don't you tell my ole man, fer
the Lawd's sake, Mr. Grady.
Detroit Maids Who Carry Re-
volvers.
Detroit Free Press.
A respectable-appearing lady
walked into the otlice of Chief of
Police Pittnian and inquired:
"Can I have a permit to carry a
pistol?"
"No, madam you cannot," answer-
ed'Gen. Pittnian, elevating his eye-
brows in surprise. "It. is not in my
power to give you one."
"Hut I will lie arrested if I carry
oiie without a permit, and it is neces-
sary Lo protect myself within danger-
ous parts of the city at late hours "
"If you are a law-abiding citizen
and only carry a pistol in case of be-
ing molested, the la\Y will not. inter-
fere with yon," answered the Cheif;
Sence he had had er stood squ.ir
meal, er jes' er bite er hay
in
Altho' las' summer, tis the truth,
our berinuda fiel',
Three tons to ever acre would er bin
erbout the yiel',
But law! he neyer cut it! you see,
that warn't his way,
That grass grew rank an' pretty, but
hit rotted whar it lay,
An' when 'twas ripe and redely what ,,G out without a loaded revolver in
did my ole man do? '. . , . , .
if , i c ,1 their pockets or satchels, lliev an
lie rid oft m er buggy fer ter tend 1 ... .
er bobbycue!
Now, do you think hit's strange, sir,
i marked:
"I shall carry a pistol when I go
into dangerous partsj>£ the city or
am out alone at late hours. Nearly
half the teachers of Detroit carry
either stilettors or toy pistols. I
know model young ladies who never
we're hongry an' forlorn,
An' the bailiff's cum an' tuck erway
"the last ear of our corn."
He says "we've got no bread to eat,"
but some one tell me why
My ole man raised no wheat nor oats, side, I shall hereafter go armed."
no barley, peas or rye, — ■ m
No taters an' no sorghum, no shotes i The most friendlv relations should
given to them by fathers, husbands
and lovers to protect themselves
wita. And in many a cellar and
secluded back yard there is a target
where the girls practice shoo ting.
With the Chief of Police on my
within the pen?
He jes' wuz plagued lazy, sir, like
plenty yuther men;
He loved his ease an' pleasure, and
some days uv the week
He had ter go er fishin' er down in
that thar creek;
exist between the local merchant mid
the farmer; one is as much the sub-
ject of oppression as the other, and
the only way that either can escape
is to adopt the pay-as-you-go plan.—
Southern Mercury.
he started in the direction of my
'ouse like 'ell and never stopped un-
til he got to- the 'orse lot gate. I
never saw as many rats in my life
since 1 left oiild llmgland." I think
Green was laboring under an attack;
of the Chinese jim-jams, or he would {
have seen snakes instead of rats—
for the Americans and Englishmen 1
generally see snakes.
With ti'is digression we find our-'
self in the Zion Hill community. If j
there is any difference between this
and the Shiloh country, the oldest
citizens of the county have not yet
discovered it. The land is thet same
—the people and their religion are
alike—in fact, Shiloh and Zion Hill
are twin sisters. The wealthiest cit-
izen of this community is
YANCY , BARTON,
a bachelor, and one of the best citi-
zens in Rusk county; no truer, bet-
ter man ever lived under the sky-
blue heavens than lie. And then we
have "Uncle" .Tosh Crow, A. J.
Welch (the father of the alliance)
and 15. N. Welch in the central por-
tion of the community. On its
western border we have J. A. 11.
Welch and W. J. Garrison These j
gentlemanly farmers have the finest |
farms and residences in the county.
They are not only farmers, but their
Jersey cattle and fine horses prove
that it is their aim to compete with
the world in stock raising, in every
sense of the word.
We now find ourself almost again
at our first weeks' starting point, a
few miles south-east of Henderson,
in theMansingercommunity. "Un-
cle" John Mansinger is the sage of
this community. Every man in the
county knows John Mansinger. His
neighbors go to him for ad vice when
in trouble, or when in the heat of a |
political struggle, and they go away
satisfied when the old man, who is
now nearing his seventieth year,
tells them thus and so are the facts.
He has the best gin stand in the
county and does the largest ginning
of any man in the county, taking
into consideration li.s near competi- j
tion. In nearly every direction you
can find his customers wi'fhrff a radi- i
us of six miles.
In speaking to your correspondent
Mr. Mansinger said: "I am in favor
of cultivating less land, and more
thorough cultivation and fertilizing.
This clean cultivation to which we
have been accus'omed has impover-
ished our lands to such an extent j
that we are bound to bring them up
to their original standard by a con-'
stant yearly application of our home !
manures. And there is something
else I wish to say to you as the cor- j
respondent of- our worthy county!
paper, it is this: We have thou-
sands of gallons of ribbon cane'
| syrup in our county that needs re-
fining, to bring its full v;ilue. I
propose that some of our capitalists
start a
sugar refinery at ilexderson,
if only on a small scale. They
can make the thousands of gallons
of syrup that sell at home for. the
pitiful sum of 40 cents per gallon
bring 75 cents per gallon abroad,
besides being blessed with abun-
dance of pure sugar for home con-
! sumption." *
This community has its excellent
I church of the deep water faith, and
a school whose pupils are as bright
as the noon-day's sun. Rev. W. II. H.
Hays is the pastor of the church
j and Prof. John Foote is the genteel
; instructor of the school. He hps
| about fifty pupils on his list and
: many more who will take advantage
! of the liberal offer which this school
j extends to those who seek a first-
class education
This ends our first week's travel
for the good of our people and the
advancement of our paper.
The Most Valuable Precious
Stone.
To the question, "What is the most
valuable precious stone?" probably
nine people out of every ten, at least'
would without the slightest hesita-
tion reply, '-Lhe diamond;" but the
value of a good sized diamond cannot
approach that of a ruby of a correct
color and similar dimensions. The
worth of small rubies—stones that
are of less than a caret—is, if any-
thing, rather less than that of dia-
monds of a like description; but the
rare occurrence of large specimens of
the.dark carmine tint which is looked
upon as the sine qua non of a good
ruby causes the value of these gems
to increase in a far greater propor-
tion than in the case of diamonds.
Rubies weighing more than four
carets are so exceptional that when a
perfect one of five carets is brought
to the market, it will command ten
times as high a sum as a daimond of
the same weight; while a ruby of six
carets, without crack or flaw, and of
the proper coloi, would in all prob"
ability, bring as high a price as a
thousand pounds-per caret, or fifteen
times as much as a diamond of like
size and faultlessness.
All through the East rubies are re-
garded with the greatest porsiLle
favor, and so it has been from the
earliest time of which we ftave any
record. References in the Book of
Job and the Proverbs of King Solo-
mon point to the high estimation in
which this stone was held by the an-
cients. "Her price is above rubies,"
is the strongest expression that could
be found to point out the worth of a
good woman, and the passage in
which wisdom is extolled above rubies
shows, again, thai: when those early
writers wished to find a simile em-
bodying then- idea of priceless value,
they turned to the ruby as the most
precious of the substances with
which they are acquainted. The
finest rubies are found in Burmah,
and from time immemorial it has
been a law of that country that all
rubies of above a certain size are the
property of the king, whoever may
have been fortunate enough to find
them. It is thought that to this day
there are concealed in Burmah, among
the treasures which British invasion
caused to be hidden away, rubies of
far ' greater size and value than any
which have, up to now, been seen in
this country. The law which gives
fine rubies to the ruler of the land
undoubtedly caused the destruction
of many magnificent specimens of this
gem, for finders ol larger stones than
usual would, if the opportunity was
favorable, break them into fragments,
each Weighing less than a carat, and
thus insure themselves the possession
of several rubies, incomparably of
lessrvalue, it is true, than the original
in which they were united, but still
their own instead of the king's.
Bad Place For Footpads.—First
Footpad—"where ye been'?"
Second Footpad—"Down in Ken-
tucky. 'Most starved,"
"Ye did?"
"Yes. Fust I commenced on drun-
ken men, but I found they hadn't any
money, because they'd spent it all;
then I begun "gohr for sober men,
but I found they hadn't any money,
or they wouldn't 'a been sober. Ken-
tucky is no place fer hard-workin'
gents like us."—New York Weekly.
CONSUMPTION SURELY
CURED.
To the Editor—Please inform
your readers that I have a posi-
tive remedy for the above named
disease. By its timely use thous-
ands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. I shall be
glad to send two bottles of my
remedy free to any of your read-
ers who have consumption if they
will send me their express and
post office address.
Respectfully,
T. A. Slocum, M. C.,
181 Pearl st.. New York.
Edison's First Check.
The other day a smooth-faced man,
wearing handsome clothes and dis-
playing a soiled collar and neck-tie al
away, and shoes that never experien-
ced the skillful manipulations of a
bootblack, and finger nails that never
met a manicure, leaned his elbow on
a Washington counter and conversed
in the joiliest way with a circle of
newspaper friends. He looked like a
tramp, but he really is one of the
most famous men in the world, and
his name is known in every part of
the globe. His name is Thomas Alva
Edison, and he was once a peanut
boy and news butcher on a jerk water
railroad in the Buckeye state. Dur-
ing a little luncheon Edison, between
hearty diinks of beer, his favorite
beverage, told in his quaint way the
story of his first acquaintance with
any large sum of money. It was in
the days when he was struggling
along with his earlier inventions, and
didn't have big capitalists to back
him. Tn fact, he didn't have any
bank account himself, and hardly
knew what one was. Bank checks
weae things he had never had occas-
ion to use, and had about as much
idea of then1 value as the man in the
moon.
Edison had finally sold his patent
on the gold and stock indicator to the
Western Union Telegraph for $40,000,
and was coming over to New York to
get his money.
He had heard of Wall street and
its bulls and bears, and had been
told that it was full of "sharks" who
would fleece a man very quick. So
he made up his mind that Wall street
was a very dangerous place, and that
if he ever had occasion to go there he
would be lucky if he got away with-
out losing his overcoat and umbrella.
At that time General Lefferts was
president of the W. U. One morn-
ing Edison came into the company's
general offices to close up the sale of
his patent. After a few preliminaries
he was given a check for §40,000.
He looked at it curiously for a mo-
ment or two and appeared to be puz-
zled what to do with it. He knew
that he had sold a patent to the W.
U. Co. for $40,000, but he did not
see any money. Observing his per-
plexity, General Lefferts told him
thajb if he would go to the Bank of
America in Wall street he could get
ij^ashed. "So I started," said Edi-
sen, "after carefully folding up the
check, and went toward Wall street.
So uncertain was I in regard to that
way of doing business that I thought
while on the way that if any man
should come up to me and offer me
two crisp thousand dollar bill* for
that piece of paper I should give
him up the check very quick."
On arriving at the Bank of Amer-
ica he hesitated about entering, fear-
ing still that something might be
wrong. At last, however, he musterd
up Courage and determined to try it.
He knew that Gen. Lefferts had told
him he would get his money here, so
Le braced ahead and half trembling
shoved his check out to the cashier.
The latter scrutinized it closely,
gave Edison a piercing glance and
said something which Edison could
not understand, as he was hard of
hearing.
That was enough. He was now
more than ever convinced that his
"check" wasn't worth $40,000, and
again thought as he rushed out of the
bank with it that any man who would
give him $2,000 could walk away
with the check.
He hurried back to the W. U. and
said he could not get any money.
General Lefferts then sent a man"
with him to identify him. He said:
"This man is Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
to whose order the check is drawn."
"Why certainly, Mr. Edison," said
the cashier, very obsequiously: "How
would you like your $40,000—in
what shape?"
"O, any way to suit the bank. It
doesn't make any difference to me so
long as I get the money."
Edison was given $40,000 in large
bills. After dividing the roll into two
wads of $20,000 each he stuffed one
into each trousers pockets, buttoned
up his coat as tightly as possible,
and made a break to get out of Wall
street as quick as he could. The
next day Edison began work on his
first laboratory in New York.
Self-Preservation.—W ealthy Old
Gent—"What! Marry my daughter?
You are being supported by your
father."
Suitor—"Yes, sir, but my father is
tired of supporting me, and I thought
I'd better get into another family
New York Weekly.
"I have an excellent steel trap for
sale. Do you want to buy one?"
"Have you a trap for sale? How
did you happen to strike?"
"In the dark. You see I was so
busy hunting for muskmelons that I
didn't see it."
Press Clippings.
It would be gratifying to North
Texas to furnish the governor next
time, and there is no man upon whom
we could all more enthuiastically join
than "Old Throck."—Gainesville Reg-
ister.
Throckmorton's friends in this sec.
♦
tion 'are legion, but they don't want
to run him as a north Texas man.
He is too broad and great to be claim-
ed by any section. Let him run sim
ply as a Texan.—Greenvile Banner
"Rusk is rapidly improving" is the
talk of all visitors to this place. The
street carline between Rusk and New
Birmingham is half the way through,
and electric lights are being put up in
all parts of this city. Rusk invites
capitl now while the enterprise is yet
in infancy.—Standard Enterprise.
To Bill Davis, Coon Potter and
Jack Badey, of Ganesville: Are the
three of you going to run for congress
this year?—Denton Times.
We are in pursuit of the man who
can weild the pen or uutter the sen-
tences with such a degree as did
Hon. H. W. Grady. He hasn't show-
ed up yet.—Standard Enterprise.
Hon. F. L. Johnston and Mr. Polk,
the engineer of the H., E. & W. T. R.
R, arrived in town Monday evening,
from Teneha. They made a casual
survey of the contemplared route
between here and the railroad. From
observation. Mr. Pelk is well pleas-
ed with the route and anticipates that
the road can be built without much
trouble. As sooh as arrangements
can be made the survey will be run.—
Center Champion.
The Winsboro Pottery is doing
some fine work now, we were shown
a few days ago some beautiful vases
and earns put up by them. Their
work is excellent well.—Messenger.
We have had the mildest winter in
this'county that the oldest citizens
lave any recollections. Capt.' Todd
reported to us that he saw open cot-
;on, green bolls, blooms, and squares,
all on one stalk on the 10th of Janua-
ry 1890.—Timpson Times.
Beat this if you can: A worthy
citizens of Cherkee county killed a
number of hogs last Monday one of
which weighed five hundred and (548)
'orty-eight pounds,, and on Tuesday
morning bright and early his good
wife presented him two fine boueing!
baby boys. It may not be out of j
place in this connection to suggest
that this most fortunate gentleman is
a Hogg man. 'Rah for Cherokee.—
Cherokee Herald.
Waco has a woolen factory and it
costs as mu9h to get that factory's
goods to Rusk as it does to get the
goods of a St. Louis factory to Rusk.
The freight rates are about the same.
Money is worth not less than ten
per cent, in Waco and in St. Louis
it can be had for five per cent. The
St. Louis manufacturer has the ad-
vantage of both cheap money and
cheap long haul freight rate. We
are suffering for a cheap short haul
rate here in our own state. The
railroads are owned in northern
and eastern markets and naturally
favor those markets to our serious
injury. Give us a reasonable short
haul rate, such as the commission
states of Missouri, Illinois, Kansas,
Iowa, Georgia and Alabama have
and our country will thrive with
thousands of manufacturing enter-
prises. A commission and a com-
mission only can giye us the desired
rate.—Cherokee Herald.
sequences, which are not quite cer-
tain, than to buy dear meat even with
the assurance of no evil results. In-
deed the meat of animals which have
died of ordinary ailments is rather
dearer than that of those which have
in an epidemic, such as pleuro pneu-
monia Another example of careful,
calculating economy is the construc-
tion of the cooking pots and boilers,
bottoms of which are as thin as pos-
sible that the contents may boil all
the sooner, for fuel is scarce and dear,
and consists generally of nothing bi^b
the stalks and roots of the crops,
which make a rapid blaze and disap-
pear. The business of gathering fuel
is committed to children, for one who
can do nothing else can at least pick
up straws and weeds and leaves. In
Autumn and winter a vast army of
fuel gatherers spread over the land.
Boys ascend trees and beat them with
clubs to shake off the leaves; the very
straws get no time to show which
way the wind blows before they are
annexed to some collector.
Chinese women carry this minute
economy into their dress. Nothing
comes amiss to them; if it is not used
in one place it is in another, where it
appeal's a thing of beauty. Foreign
residents who gave their cast off
clothes to Chinese may be assured the
career of usefulness of these garments
is at last about to commence. Chinese
wheelbarrows squeak for want of a
few drops of oil, but to people who
have no nerves the squeak is cheaper
than the oil. Similarly dirt is cheaper
than hot water, and so, as a rule, the
people do not wash. The motto,
"Cheaper than dirt," which the soap
dealer puts in his windows, could not
be made intelligible to the Chnese.
To them the average foreigners are
merely soap wasters.
Scarcely any tool can be got ready
made' it is so much cheaper to buy
the parts and put them together for
youaself, and as almost everybody
takes this view, ready made tools are
not to be got. Two rooms are dimly
lighted with a single lamp deftly
placed in a hole in the dividing wall.
Chinese, in fact, seem to be capable
of doing anything by means of almost
nothing. They will give you an iron
foundry of a minute scale of comple-
teness in a back yard and will make,
in an hour, a cooking range, a strong
and perfect draught, out of a pile of
iiiiid bricks, lasting iudbSiiitely, Opel -
ating perfectly and costing nothing.
The old woman who, in her Jast mo-
ments, hobbled as near as possible to
the family graveyard in order to die
so as to avoid the expense of coffin
bearers, was Chinese.
Oriental Economists.
The Chinese are pre-eminently
economical, whether it be in limiting
the number of wants, in preventing
wants or in adjusting forces in such a
manner as to make a little represent
a good deal. The universal diet con-
sists of rice, beans, millet, garden
vegetables and fish, with a little meat
on high festivals. Wholesome food
in abundance may be supplied at less
than a penney a day for each adult,
and even in famine times thousands
of persons have been kept alive for
mountlis on a halfpenney a day each.
This implies the existence of a high
degree of culinary skill in the Chinese.
Their modes of preparing food are
thorough and various. There is no
waste; everything is made to do as
much duty as possible. What is left
is the veriest trifle. The physical
oondition of the Chinese dog or. cat,
who has to liye on the leavings of the
family, shows this. They are clearly
kept on starvation allowances.
The Chinese are not extremely
fastidious in regard to food; all is fish
that comes to then- net, and most
things come there sooner or later.
Certain disturbances of the human
organization, due to eating diseased
meat, are well recognized among the
people, but it is considered better to
eat the meat, the cheapness of which
is certain, and run the risk of tho con.
What the Wits Say.
■ "By the way, Bridget," said Mrs.
Bland the other morning, "how old
are you?" "Shure mum," said
Bridget, as she poured three gallons
of kerosene on a piece of wood two
inches square in the stove, "I wuz
just sivin months older than me
brother Tim, and if he lives till next
October I'll be twinty-four."—Life.
"The subject we are to discoss is
whisky," said the fifth temperance
orator of the evening, "and I trust
that in the short time allotted to me
I shall be able to give my hearers a
taste on the subject."'
Loud applause from the audience.
—Time.
"He is oppressively polite."
"Hqjv so?"
"Why, when I gave my ball last
winter I never invited him, and he
sent a card of regrets."
"Regrets for what?"
"That I hadn't invited him."—De-
troit Sun.
Lawyer (the ordinary kind)—
What time was it when you saw the
defendant strike this blow?
Witness (the extraordinary kind)
—Seven and one-half minutes past
ten.
"Seven and one-half Minutes past
ten. Will you be kind enough to
tell me how you come to be so
exact?"
"I thought some fool might ask
me, so I looked at my watch."—
Philadelphia Inquirer.
There was a young Irishman who
went to learn the printing business
in an office where Swinkins is em-
ployed as a reporter. Swinkins has
that wild incomprehensible ambition
peculiar to men who have not been
employed for the press very long to
see his work come out in type just
as he wrote it. One. morning he
paid a visit to the new compositor.
"I wish," said Swinkins, "that you
wouldn't change things that I write
when you set them up. All I ask is
for you to follow my copy."
"Follow your copy?"
"Certainly."
"Faith, then it's in the waste bask
etOid be half the toime."—Com-
mercial Traveler.
The Hobies of Famous Men,
A clever and industrious compilor
of facts concerning the peculiar pur-
suits followed by some prominent
people in their off hours has presented
the following:
Jeseph Jefferson of "Rip Van
Winkle" fame is not only a great ac-
tor but a very good artist
Edwin Booth is an enthusiastic
player of whist as well as the fore-
most player of tragedy in America.
George Bancroft, the historian, is
passionately fond of roses and has
some of the finest specimens in Amer-
ica.
'Billy" Florence his distinguished
confrere, is an expert angler. His
chief hobby though appears to be
practical joking.
Robert Bonner devotes all of his
time and attention to his horses. His
mania is to own the fastest horse on
the trotting turf.
Geo. W. Childs, the Philadelphia
journalist and philanthropist, is fond
of collecting authors' manuscripts,
china and bric-a-brac.
William Rockefeller is an admirer
of fast horses. He owns a three-
quarter mile track at which he treats
his friends to races between his own
horses.
Cooper Hewitt, son of ex-Mayor
Hewitt, has one of the best collec-
tions of musical instruments in Amer-
ica and knows how to play on nearly
all of them.
John D. Rockefeller's hobbies are
churches and charities, and he de-
votes al of his spare time to further-
ing the interest of the Methodist
church. He is also fond of horses.
Henry Villard, the railroad mag-
nate, is passionately fond of music.
He is a good performer on the violin-
cello, and is thoroughly posted on all
the doings in the operatic world.
Russell Sage is an enthusiastic
chess player. After solving tho
problems of the bulls and beais, and
puts and calls on Wall street, he
goes home to solve problems on the
chess board.
Mrs. Harrison is a very good paint-
er. Nearly all the pictures in the
Harrison homestead were painted by
her, nd many of them fire rea!?y
works of art. The President takes a
great deal of interest in his wife's
work.
George Gould is a philatelist. He
has one of the finest collections of
foreign stamps in the world and de-
votes a great deal of his spare time
in arranging them and sticking them
in albums according to their classifica-
tion. Another hobby is his baby.
•
Bray ton Ives, of Wall street, has
perhaps the finest ajid most valuable
collection of old manuscripts, missals,
and rare books in 'the country- He
attends all the sales and frequently
sends commissioners to the book
sales that take place in Europe, and
is considered a well-posted biblio-
grapher.
John Wanamaker the Postmaster-
General, has been a busy man all
his life. His only hobby is the Sun-
day school which is connected with
Bethany*church in Philadelphia. He
is so wrapt up in the success of this
Sunday school that he is frequently
caught neglecting his business to dis-
cuss Sunday school matters.
Charles A. Dana finds recreation
among the flowers. His flowers have
taken prizes at flower shows in this
vicinity for a number of years, and
always form one of the most attrac-
tive exhibits at the show. He is es-
pecially fond of crysanthemums and
has thousands of varieties of these
beautiful plants in his garden.
Jay Gould's hobby seems to have
been collecting dollars; but in addi-
tion to this very interesting collection
which now numbers several millions,
he is very fond of flowers. He has
perhaps, the finest, conservatory in
the country, "and he works among his
flowers and rare plants in this con-
servatory just us his gardener would.
How Bad You Look this morning.
Did you sleep any last night!
Not a wink.
Anybody sick?
I am.
What's the mrtter?
Well, you see my wife has been in
the habit of going through my pockets
at night, and I thought what was
good for the garden was good or the
goose, so after she fell asleep last
night' I arose and set out to go
through her pockets.
Get anything?
No- Search the dress over and
over, spent the whole night at it, but
couldn't find the pocket.
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