The Austin Weekly Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1884 Page: 4 of 6
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ACSTEf. ZBXA&
. JiEAI. HiTxlT. COSVEJITIOV.
sec:: i DAY.
TheTexa3 Lit:! Estate Association
rr .nmei if 3 session at the JJusiness
.Collfge building ysterlay. morning
wlih its preside at J. S. Dninertv in
tnafchair Air. E IL Tgwell itc-tintf as
hi.cretary.
Jit the requeot of Mr. Maduox the
.rflbtitution of tue associatioa was
r tad. which provides (among other
i tiioga) that the organization shall
iurchae property erect biiildings
;ioan money uol otherwise truruuet
'such busiuess ui o-jiues within its
k'Sitioiate scjj it shall also eu-
' eourHoroemiirrj'itin to the state "'i
' negotiate the cUiag. leasing aui
luirement or property in the inter vjis
of its patrons aul the association.
Kach certiuo.no 'of luciiiijershtp shall
lor the next ixry day? cost 600 pay
able in monthly listaliutMls oi nf
tiollars and 'alter that lime
ttie rate 6hail lie i.icrcisrd to 31000
juyaMo in monthly installments of
. SlOe;uh. Ia counties of lesi than
jO Inhabitants only one member can
jjuln admission to the association un-
j.ss by Bpocial foment of the body
t he object bciti? to limit the member-
ship to a voi kiri)f nutniK r in oat h s -c-tion.
The president announced that the
meeting was opn for applications to
membership itnd the following indi-
viduals and h:ms applied for adrp-
sion and were elected: Ma ldox bios
& Anderson Austin; 1. l)i Cordova
& boa Austin; Vui. Oaxsin Sun An-
tonio; Toot L.d) & Uunuiniiham
. -tian Angtlo; T. ii'i le Houston. Mobi-
' tie; J. l3. Moore 'j'emple; Koliits &
EddirnanTrn'e; Plimons & Eustes
Henrietta; C. il. Willinjrharn. ltun-
- nels; McOinnis & Son Colorado City.
The followirg committee was ap-
pointed to prepare by-laws and report
on same as soon as possible: 1. De-
- Cordova. Wm. Calnin C. K. Ander-
ton W. S. Vral and V. T. lioberts.
The q lestion of appointing a com-
mittee on legislation came before the
meeting. Capt. Veal stated that he
had been spoken to on the streets this
morning by a member of the Stock-
men's convention who stated to him
the stockmen ought td oppose their
association for the reason it favored a
herd law etc. r lie desired now t say
that the association never adopted or
favored a herd law and never intend-
ed j;oing farther than merely to peti-
tion the legislature for the enactment
of some nifiieiires which would pro-
tect property and prevent fence-cut-
.Mr. Maddox favored tho appoint-
ment of a special committee
on the subject of legislation
so that thu position of the
--sssoeiatioi might be clearly defined on
' ' the subj-1 1 of l'eiicc-cutting and
other mitlers. If they neglected
doing so they might Lo misunderstood
by outside partiei to the detriment ol
the oiv r.i:z.itioi.
This opinion prevailed and the fol-
lowing ueiill-iurn were npnointed as
a com:; i' t- o uri legislation and it is
probable the result of their labors
will roon bo mi le known to the pub-
. lie: J S. Daugherty E. M. Towell
Dallas; Frank Maddux. Auutin; Wm.
Caasin San Antonio; C. D. Foot San
Angelo.
The meeting then adjourned till 8
o'clock p. m.
- TUB F.VEM.nS 6ES8ION.
Shortly after S o'clock the commit-
tee re-assembiul in the spacious hall
of the Capital Business College with
iir. Daugherty in the chair and a
large attendance ur ..lembers.
The commit! lu legislation ap-
pointed at thr- in irnjQg session made
tne iollowm -r j ;;nit:
1u the Real F '.m lation of Texan:
Ycnr coraiT.irw iw halation bog leave to
utitiuilt tho j!''.'.'i a- a r.-rort. mid k tlial
it Da adopi''! Htt oi .Mis asHOOUttloU:
unrtthH' wo Miii.'riili.'-? ur IpkI latur. loeu-
jt r- --ui lai oil lily subjecU utTi-luutter
onoraa'e nrM'rs ot the Semite anj
'jf itejin-BcutiiUes ottiio Stale o(
-'"4-tltJourT i'e Ral Estate Assocla-
hi coiivviiiiuD assembled would
ftianiiiiitt Drev;lei!'e of luw-
iur tnii I": WTeral inoiuiis i:t.
'f the owners therof wh..-h is
' .vi"(ul eltect upon the mteril
.iic a depreciition ia llproitTty
i"npiQg the InTestment
money
wii;. hv detBrrlim
ttjiiV. Iv detBiTlna those w
those who have in-
ri ironi settling up and lin proving it; and
lirtr.my casi-s where improvements hare been
made by caosinir them to be tcniored in order
to Dreveul tnetrdestriietioD: by cautsms ins
(rounds lor bellevlnir tht owners of property
tan not be protected In tne use oi It uoderex-
IMIcj laws to suppoie at unco the lawlessness
(UKb is ueiuic uiiiuutbc-u hi lue ursirui'liou
f traces and la depredating njxn the
property of others: And we hereby
V ledge ur moral ami political support in the
matter and olle.r our pby.iteal and pecuniary
aid if necessary to entorce tho lame. We
sk that no one be favored :n1 that no one
fce allowed to enjoy ibat which belongs to
othors but that each and even' one he. p-o-tectd
In ill" full enjoyment of the exclusive
use of his propei tv; and.
Whereas There are between -OO.fOD.ooo and
40.ouo.Ou acres ot common school university
: asylum and unorganized county school land
now producing no revenue to the funds to
which they beX.iis while the pioperty inter-
tts of the stato :-.re being ta.'.e.' to support
these lnsti utionti We believe l.ie time'bas
arrived wne if an efteetive law was enacted
tbey could be made to pay a sufllrlent revrnae
to defray the principal expenses of the in U-
tutlont to whh'h they belong and resiiectlully
ank i hit such a law be enacted. We furtticr
believe that tlie law permitting ' icorponuiors
to buy and own uul inlfii iiutatities of land.
Is roiilrary to the spirit of tho const tntion and
tews oi ur cmntry and good pti0!ie policy
We therefore ask
t-uai
! a lull be enacte.l. !t:i-i.
lng the onsntity of real estate that cai tm
iulred or owned by a corporation or we be-
lieve there Is gr-at danger in the near future
If this should not be done. That a largo por-
Conof our state will be controlled by greatcor-
r oration that will prevent the seitl uient of
be slate and the acquisition of homes by the
masses.-
Capt. Veal thought that they ought
"to be cautious about promising their
"physical" support in this matter. It
"was all well enoujh for his friend
lladdox to pledge his thvsical sup-
port but they should remember that
me of the-members resided in the
fcnce-cnttinji district and it v;b not
as safe for them to offer their services
in this way as it was for the gentle-
men who lived la Austio. Laughter.
Ha was itlsD opposed toautagonlxing
The corporations as the association ex-
pected to do business rrm them.
Mr. Maddox was jfl 'favor of having
laws enacted mat would do the great-
est amoont ff go. for the greatest
numbev of people anl ha thought it
wd pernicious in principle to
billow corporations to s monopolize
whole counties ?ts some of them seem
xnxious to do. He wa? therefore
anxious to sc the report adopted.
After some remarks from (.'apt.
eal and othors the report was unan-
imously adopted. u;;d a copy of same
. nrdered to be sent to tho president of
the Senate and speaker of tho House
fit Kepresentatives. and alio to be
lu mi shed the members ef the press
t Jter which the convention adjourned
until this evening at 4 o'clock.
- THIRD DATV ' ;
The Texts Ileal Estate association
" lid not meet yesterday until 4 o'clock
in the Rfternoon and then the meet-
ing was merely a formal one. The
tommittoe on constitution and by-
laws presented a draft of a charter
- constitution and by-laws for the asso-
ciation but time did not permit their
tr.'t'iidt'ratioo. The report was re-
t eived ud the association adjourned
'iLtll 9 o'dock this morning to meet
iri the h;dl over Maddox Bros. &
AnJirwii's ot!?e. They expect to
-oarlnde their business to-day. The
jresld"iit sv.ui that all real estate
mn. rpm ts well ns owners are
iuvitoi to &.teud thn meeting to-day.
.'AH butei'ht of the three hundred
unl twenty-five members .of' the
3 io;i-e of Heprescatatives " are law-
Tv.z punt.tr?"nt of the fence cut-
Vt-ye too harsh; nor can that
' Ao appropriates land not
vere..
ti"--'t.vdtole-;cf
tcij"ct.n.ui-
t be has t:ai'.-
'?'t i. tlis ul-
' f.icttbat
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?SjsMjuajBSM
It Is a I'.ijr.e Iiil result the liiiing
1 of th(5 Ohio fccaatorUl chair.
Foit a short session the House flit-
tered away a gooJiy amount of lime
yesterday.
Tiik state pajers. now that the leg-
islature has assembled are facetious
upon the subject of draw poker.
Tiik probability is that Senator
Shannon is going to be a bonanza
kin?. His ventures in Xew Mexico
point that way.
Tni people up about 1 Paso want
a United States district court es-
pecially those who hope to hold ofliciul
positions thereunder.
j i 1 m
A Ueiiman army oillcer has said
the empire could put 2000000 of men
in the field iu thirty days. This
would bo exclusive of reservts.
UuVEiixoit Kkott and Speaker
Carlisle were both war Democrat3
and still the lunatics of the North are
tidkino; about political outrages in
Kent nek v.
Mk. Hoadly assumes the guberna-
torial olliue in Ohio January 17 that
state then taking the place of Massa
chusetts in the array of states with
Democratic governors.
The flghi in the cattle convention
over the presidency indicates the pol
icy of a majoritv of tho body. The
election of Ex-(iov. Snyers was in
vindication of grass ownership.
--!.. J
JruAii P. JJenjamin has examined
two or three hundred estates having
American claimants and finds them
phantoms. lie warns all Americans
to spend no money on that line.
L 1
Tiis Ohio Democrats in naming
Payne to the seat once held by Thur-
man have belittled themselves. It is
something like the Wood Pulp Miller
selection by tho Republicans of New
York.
An unalterable law in Texas should
be one that fences shall not cross
county lines. All county lines should
be declared public ways. "What the
state hath put asunder let not man
unite ns one.
No bettek evidence of the general
prosperity of the entire country could
be desired than the sitnplo fact that
the mortgage indebtedness of the en-
tire country has been decreased seventy-five
per cent.
Pendleton's Republican civil ser-
vice bill is what killed him. It was
enough to kill anybody but that it
should have given life to Payne is
one of the inscrutable ways of poli-
tics past comprehension that it is
hardly to lo accounted for.
Genekal Gkant gives "a flat de-
nial" to tho story that ho had declared
open war against tthe recommen-
dation of President Arthur in favor
of Sena'.or Lcgan. He is not at all
at "outs" with the president calls
upon him whenever ho is in Washing-
ton and ia fact is on very friendly
relations with him.
It i3 reported that Admiral Cour-
bet will take active measures for re-
dress in view of a massacre by Black
Flag3of French prisoners captured
before Bontay which probably means
that Courbet's troops will be allowed
to indulge in their fill next time they
encounter helpless Black Flags in the
muruerous crueity so characteristic
of the French in their petty wars..
A New Yock supreme court judge
very sensibly ciecii'.s that g.is coning
nies have no right to deprive u cus-
tomer of g.is on account of the non-
psyncnt of bill.". The liereement to
furnish ga3 is under all the circum
stances involved iu tho nature of a
contract and claims tinder it must be
proved like other claim? in an action
at law. "
? 1 : iA1.11?.".1..1"'?1
El Maiidi is inarching on and it
is becoming a serious question for
EjO'l't what to do with him. and for
England what to do with Egypt. The
khedive i3 so thoroughly alarmed that
he even proposes his own salary be
cut down so that the danger most be
grave indeed. There is a growing be-
lief that ultimately England will be
obliged to become the ruler of Egypt
in name as well as in fact.
Sexator Sabin of Minnesota
chairman of the Republican national
committee announces the following
as his opinions on finance: Payments
on the national debt should cease;
the national debt as it matures
should be converted into 2 per cent
fifty-year lionds available for the
basis of national bank circulation" the
national bank circulation the 1 per
cent tax on tho Litter to be abolished;
banks should issue notes to the par
value of the bonds.
Tub Bentiment In favor of woman
suffrage is growing rapidly in Iowa.
Its advocates are vigorously at work
and some of the most influential
p ipers in the state have given in their
adhesion to the movement. The next
legislature will lie asked to take the
final step toward submitting a consti-
tutional amendment on the subject to
the people and if this ia done an earn-
est campaign In favor of its adoption
will be made in 1884.
Tnjs contest between church and
state in Prussia lcoks now as if it had
reached a point when both sides will
agree to a satisfactory compromise.
The government has declared its in-
tention of paying th9 Catholic clergy
the salaries which have been with-
held from them for some time. Bis-
marck has evidently seen that in at-
tempting to persecute the church and
crush put BocialiBtn he had in the
eommbn vernacular of the "West bit-
ten off more than he could chew and
the recent interview between the
crown prince and the pope bids fair to
wipe put one factor of discord in the
empire . .
Is the--.United States during the
past year crime has been oa the in-
crease. On on nveiaa-e there has been
four murders and two suicides each
day with only two executions and
auout the same number of lynchings
a week. One hundred and live per-
sons expiated their crimes by death at
the hands of the law. Throuzh the
instrumentality of vigilance commit-
tees and mobs summary justice was
meted but to ninety-two culprits
against fifty -seven in 18S3. Eleven of
them were shot eighty were hanged.
and one was ' burned : at
the
stake at tugerly La. In various
parts of the union nine hundred and
ten persons rut an end to their earthly
rxisinco by rite -.vnirur. f;re. eas. the
.V....11 .rater rope- e'C. In 18S2 there
H-er. ibite ur..-'"red and eighty three
c:'.n cf suicide I-Ast year New
Ycrk led iih two hundred and four
r.dred and eighty
-vjrew in 3U
AT-
TESTIOS. '
The election of Ei-Gov. Sayers as
president of the Stockmen's conven-
tion is a piece of conservatism thai
might have been expected from a
iMxly possessing as marked ability
as the one over which he
is called upon to preside.
The elevation of tkis distinguished
citizen to so honorable a position in
times like these may to taken as an
earnest that the cattle men of Texas
are going to work earnestly to assist
in solving vexed questions now pre-
sented for tjie best interests of the
majority of all classes in the state. Thu
election is a declaration in opposition
to free grass mada by the very men
from whom it has been said no such
declaration might have been expected.
But few may know that the political
record of Mr. Sayers placed him as
long ago as 1373 in opposition to free
grass in Texas. While a state senator
in the Thirteenth Legislature he
made an effort to prepare
Texas for a dawning civiliza
tion by introducing a prop-
proposition in the legislature to t!o
away with the free use of public lands
iu Texas; but no one was found to
follow the senator in his states
manlike proposition lie introduced
a bill providing for the lease
of school and other public lands
containing provisions that would have
effectually barred all such difficulties
aa.have arisen from the fixed uses of
such lands by persons having no in
terest in them and from whom the
state has derived no return for their
profitable uses. As said he was
alone but ho made a manly fight as
Mr. Sayers always has done for what
he felt was right and to-dav ha stands
as the first public man of Texas.
who apparently with prophetic soul
comprehended a coming situation and
presented Its solution to the people of
Texas. He saw the higher civiliza
tion coming knew what it would de-
mand and with a mind unclouded with
the least tincture of demagogueism
he allied himself to truths which
otner men did not endorse because
they did not dare make them under
the power of law operative against
existing conditions. There he stood
alone promising to do then what
everybody inTexes ia desiring to
day no one to aid him in a grand
progressive course which years ago
would have made property values
in Texas greater than they were in
1883. Had the proposition of Mr.
Sayers then been shaped into such a
l:w 3 he proposed the public
lands of Texas would now have
been the channel through which
a contribution of one and a half mil-
lion dollars would have been flowing
into the educational coffers of the
state. A lonely endorser of Mr.
Sayers' plan at that time was The
Statesman and it has ever since
held to theories then presented and
which arc now proven imperatively
necessary. Nearly all admit now
that free grass has had its day. It is
an existing evil demanding vigerous
treatment. Homeepathic practice
put into operation on Texas grass
would soon lead to the ebbing away of
the vital energies of the state.
An alopathicpiescription is necessary
and the doctors mast soon begin to
turn in the doses- The legislature has
been called upon to attend to the
case; the 6tockmen advise positive
treatment and the physic must be ad
ministered in a very few days or the
patient's condition will grow hope
lessly worse.
The governor's propositions regard
ing the herding or management of
live stock.taken as a whole go beyond
what it seems such requirements
should be in a country like Texas.
After a few years such propositions
might safely be embodied into
law while at this " time they
might prove destructive to high-
ly valuable interests. Legisla-
tion .' against free grass ia what
is demanded and the least revolution-
ary methods by which this may be
awolutely secured should be made to
.constitute what some may be pleased
o denominate a herd law. A law
must be in the nature cf a positive
correctivo of existing evils while
there should be an avoidance of all
that is swee-pingly harsh and oppres-
sive;' The governor's suggestions as
to the fencing of lands and the pro-
tection of. land o nirs against fence-
ing should be adopted as should also
his propositions to make fence-cutting
and presumptious fencinsr of-
fenses against tho peace of society.
Penalties therefore cannot be made
too harsh for these evils are the out-
growth of a defiantly lawless senti-
ment. The merchantile failures of 188S in
the United States greatly exceeded
those of 1882 the footings being 8172.-
874 172 against 8101047564. In like
manner the ratio ot increase in fail-
ures was much greater than in 1882.
the latter year showing an increase in
liabilities in round numbers over those
of 1881 of 820000.000 while the liabil-
ities of 18S8 were $17000000 greater
than in 1882. Taking 1881 as a basis
of comparisons the failures analyze
into striking contrasts. The failures
of New England in 1833 were about
241 per cent greater in aggregate lia
bilities than in 1881; the middle states
show an increase of 73 per cent the
western Btates an increase of 200 per
cent the Pacific states and territories
an increase of nearly 20 per cent.
This analysis points out with remark
able clearness the respective regions
of prosperity and embarrassment the
regions of financial storm and regions
of calm. It is a most favorable pre
sentation for the South.
A section ized system of public
ways will before many years be an
absolute necessity in every portion of
the state. Let us start now by declar
ing county lines where practicable
public way and making the section
lines at certainly no distant day
They are a necessity now in the
greater portion of the state.
Toe memorial address of Mr. Bent-
ley of Tom Green county in response
to resolutions upon the death of Col.
Jefferson was admirable.
BAY8 the Marshall Herald: "The
legislature in prescribing penalties
for fence-cutting can not ignore the
fact that the poor man also has rights
which must be respected."
The wisdom of the legislature will
commend itself to the people if that
body refuse t accept in the settle
ment of. treat questions the unalter-
ed propositions of interested persons
or organizations. ' . . '
Akt law against fence-cutting
would ba inadequate unless the of-
fender aad conspirators be held re-
Iponsible for all damage done to prop-4rtsv.-Thlv
with fine and uaprisoa-
Sen 'ivoajd -taaks one think twine
fcforeksnrSppte.. . 2 . ;
tu rp.EsiDKvrm srer t.siwx.
On ot" tho pressing necessities be-'
fore Congress is the enactment of a
measure for filling presidential va-
cancies. A goc d many plana are pro-
posed and the newest and most novel
of them all is that of Mr. McCord of
Ijwa now serving his third term in
Congress ne proposes that the elec
toral colleges shall be continued in
power during the entire presidential
quadrienniuifl and in case of the re-
moval death resignation or inability
of both president and vice president
shall be reconvoked by proclamation
of the secretary of state and shall
thereupon elect a president and vice
uresideat for tne unexpired term.
The same mode of procedure is to bo j commendable but" they have a para-
followed as in the regular election lyzing effect upon the average Ke-
The vote is to be counted by congress
Durinz the proceedings to fill the va
cancy the secretary of state is to act
as president Tho special advantage
of this i Ian is fixity of control during
tne quaanennium. &.a mu uujuny t
of the colleges will be of the ;
same party faith as at the j
regular election other prominent j
members of the same party will be
chosen and there will be no excite-
ment in reference to any change
of policy until the next regu-
lar election. It ia suggested how-
ever that simpler means might be
adopted; that the functions oj the
electoral colleges could be extended to
Include the filling of vacancies with-
out the expense attendant ou a spe-
cial reconvention by merely author-
izing the colleges at their original
meeting to nominate a succession. It
is presented as a reasonable plan that
four officers should be elected and
that the succession should devolve in
the order named upon those. There
might be named besides a president
first second and third vice-presidents.
Among the various propositions
which the dispute over the succes-
sion question brings out are those
for the extension of tho presiden-
tial term to six years and
the representative term to three.
We sue no necessity for changes in
these last named respects. Six years
without the right for the incumbent
to become a candidate for tho succes-
sion would be an admirable thing.
but it is ju3t now not profitable to en-
gage in any such object. There aro
eo many vital questions claiming the
attention of Congress it would be the
part of wisdom and of statesmanship
to do first those things which are ab-
solutely necessary and hereafter tho
less vital questions may be considered.
As to increasing the representative
term to three yearsthere is no use for
it except to keep bad men in Congress
one year longer than now.
This is to be a year of great events;
a president is to be elected and one
or the other of the great political par
ties of the country must triumph in a
struggle ia which the Democratic
party contends for popular rights.
The surplus in the federal treasury
demands disposition while the tariif
question must be definitely fixed as a
most important issue in the federal
contest. National banking claims es
pecial attention while the river and
harbor improvement system must be
definitely adjusted to suit the require-
ments of sections. The duties of army
and navy officers must be better regu
lated and public land laws must bo
amended and the domain looked after
The pension roll's huge dimensions
should be cut down civil service
lookeel after and monopolies regu
lated. 1 lere are questions for the fed
eral Congress while in Texas we are
confronted with as big if not a big
ger question than all of them the
settlement of a great disturbing move
ment involving the peace and dignity
and the property values of the entire
state. Let us see how near federal
and state legislatures may come to
meeting requirements in great public
emergencies.
DcitiNe tne year is&j an unusual
number of public men were called to
add to the throng supposed to bo col-
lecting in another world. Prominent
among these may be mentioned Gam-
belts leader of theFrench Republi-
cans; Prince Alexander bi other of
the (Jormnn emperor; Gustavo Dore
the great painter and designer; Von
Flotow the eminent German compo-
ser; and of our own people Lott M.
Morrill ex-United States senator from
M-iine; Alexander H. Stevens of Geor-
gia long a member of the United
States House of Representatives vice
president of the Southerntonf ederacy
and at the time of his death governor
of the state; Timothy O. Howe ex-
senator from Wisconsin and postmaster-general;
Peter Cooper the venera-
ble New York philanthropist; ex-
Senator Eugene Casserly of Califor-
nia; ex-Postmaster-General Montgom-
ery Blair; ex-Senator A. C. Dodge of
Iowa; Judge Jeremiah S. Black ot
Pennsylvania; the Count De Cham-
bord last1 representative of the elder
branch of the houso of Bourbon; ex-
United States Senator Theodore F.
Randolph of New Jersey; Congress-
man Dudley G. Haskell; and in Texas
ex-Governors E. M. Pease and J5. J.
Davis.
The New York Cremation Society
has an active membership of 200 and
the interest in its objects is so strong
in the metropolis that a company has
been formed for the purpose of bulld-
a crematory there as a business ven
ture. Ground is to be secured in one
of the highest parts of the island and
the establishment is to be fitted up in
the most perfect style on the grounds
beautified by every device of the land-
scape gardener's art. Familiarity with
the idea of burning the bodies of the
dead is said to have popularized it to
a considerable degree and it is not
improbable that the practice may be-
come far more common. The fre-
quent revelations regarding grave
desecrations have a tendency to recon-
cile people to the cremation plan.
Refbesentatives Holman Han-
cock and Cannon have been named to
prepare the federal legislative execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bills.
This is the salary bill of the govern-
ment and the special work of these
three gentlemen is among the most
important of the many important
tasks presented to congressmen.
TnE alleged Fenian letter to the
pope threatening him with lyna-
mite unless he should withdraw his
favor from England is probably a
forgery and either a stupid jose or a
malicious attempt to throw obloquy
on the Irish cans?. Its sentiment
are repudiated by every Irishman an
by every other deceiit
and sensible!
man.
i
Hexbt Wahj Beeches itia eald '
feels that he will die this wv ThfiV
accounte for bia besmninE' ti tail
s.ftonthe Democratic par
ft.
E v'kx witn fence cuUirg tind oiter
annoyances Lo which cattle men have
been subjected. It Is demonstrated -beyond
a doubt that the production of
beef is paying more to-day than any
other business iu Texas. It is truth-
fully said of this industry that it pays
better than mining better than stock
speculating or than any of the money
making schemes of the day.
Wep. Flaxaoan told the authori-
ties at Washington that his son was
unfit for the postoflice inspectorship.
The Marshall Ileralil in making the
announcement moves that the anti-
! Ananias society buy the elder Flana-
gan a hatchet. Such exhibitions of
regard for truth it says are not only
publican.
Hexev Wattekson hasgone Eist
so it is announced to stay until next
June in Washington and New York
looking alter the McDonald boom.
He has taken such excellent care of
Uncle Sammy that it really does ap-
paar indispensible that he act as
groomsman for McDonald who It
was long ago announced had been
picked out by Mr. Tilden as his suc-
cessor in the presidential field.
The temperance people claim to be
better organized in Indiana now than
ever before. By spring it i3 claimed
every township in the state will have
an organization pledged to work
against every candidate w ho does not
come out squarely for constitutional
and statutory prohibition. Unless
one of the political parties champions
their cause it is said they propose to
put a separate ticket in the field.
The use of blood as a food for cat-
tle has been recently the subject of
experiment in Denmark by a certain
chemist who as a result has now in-
vented and patented a new kind of
cake in which blood forms one of the
chief ingredients. This new food is
stated to be exceedingly nutritious
and wholesome and is eaten with
avidity by all sorts of animals and
even by cows and horses which have
naturally a strong dislike to the smell
of biood.
It is now said that the czar was not
injured by an overturned coach but
that six Nihilists attacked him as he
was passing through a forest. The
czar was painfully wounded in the
shoulder by one of the shots but sus
taineel no serious injuries and his as
sailants managed to escape through
their knowledge of the forest. It is
to be presumed that the czar will sat
isfy his wounded shoulder and affront
ed dignity by deferring his proposed
constitutional reforms a little lonser.
The Barber couEty Kansas index
has this to say regarding the great
disturbing question in Texas: ""From
what we can learn from the papers
the wire fence troubles in Texas are
even greater than the public would
suppose and that the legislature of
that state ha3 a big job on its hand.
We can imagine that stock men there
are not anxious to have their troubles
magnified a3 that would certainly in-
jure their credit greatly and perhaps
affect the prices of cattle."
The losses by fire in the United
States and Canada during the past
year have exceeded 100000000 and
of this the insurance companies have
had to shoulder in the United States
alone about 54000000. Many of the
companies have lost money but the
majority have held their own and
some few have made a considerable
profit. The tariff of rates on many
classes of risks was" considerably ad
vanced about the b3ginning of the
past year and a stricter inspection
and closer adherence to the rule3 for
writing policies was required of
agents.
An exchange calls rtttention to the
fact that the last Democratic presl-
ident was elected in 1856 and one of
the planks in the platform read as fol
lows: "No more revenue ought to be
raised than is required tu defray the
necessary expenses ot the govern
ment and to proviele lor the gradual
but certain extinction of the public
debt." The Democratic party elected
its candidate then on the tariff for rev-
enue theory.while in 1876 it elected its
nominee on a still stronger declara-
tion in favor of a tariff alone for
revnue purposes. One cause of
defeat in 1SS0 was that Gen. Han
cock partially abandoned the tariff
declaration of the Cincinnati plat-
form. The Pons-IJrooks comet is clearly
visible to the naked eye appearing now
the size of a star of the second mag-
nitude. The tail 13 about two degrees
in length but almost too thin for de-
tection without the aid of glasses
though the nebulosity of the comet is
very obvious. Any cne who knows
where to look for the "Square of Pe-
pasus" can readily find the comet
about fifteen degrees directly below
the centre of a line drawn from one
to the t thsr of the lower stars of the
"squfrr." It will reach its nearest
point to the earth about the loth of
this month.
Mr. Lane of the stockmen's con-
vention treats too seriously the as-
sertions of a few legislators that the
stockmen were called to Austin to in-
fluence or bulldoze the legislature.
Reasonably informed persons know
that at the sockmen's conveation.held
in this city.in February 1883 the reg
ular time for meetings at Austin
was fixed for the second Tuesday
in January. Instead of beine
aggrieved at so false an intimation
he gentleman might pertinently in-
quire why the legislature convened at
the same time the stockmen assem-
bled. Hints to Gentlemen.
Don't be untidy in anything. Neat-
ness is one of the most important of
the minor morals.
Don't wear apparel with decided
colors or with pronounced patterns.
Don't we address here the male
reader for whom this brochure is
mainly designed wear anything that
is pretty. What have mon to do with
pretty things? Select quiet colors
a;id unobtrusive patterns and adopt
no sf yle of cutting that belittles the
figure. It is right enough that men's
wpparel shoidd be becoming that it
should be graceful and thatit should
lend dignity to thejligure; but let it
never be ornamental fanciful grotes
que odd capricious nor pretty.
Don't wear your hat cocked over
your eye. nor thrust back upon your
head. One method is rowdyish the
other rustic.
Don't wear trinkets shirt-pins
finger-ring. or anything that is orna-
mental. One may wear shirt-studs a
scarf-pin. a .watch chain and a seal
because these articles are useful but
the plainer they are the better.
A medical writer savs that girls are
so constructed that they cannot jump.
If he is a respectable young man let
biia propose matrimony to one of tin
tfirla sz4 he'll soon sea bt jumpat
the ciftir.
l liiiention of Stockmen.
;a.xrW CouuTf duuuui. Ina-.i.;
While in Kansas City tbU week we
met and conversed with a lars num-
ber ot cattlemen from nearly evo. :y
part of the grazing country; troili
Colorado Montana Aiizona Texas
and New Mexico besides many from
this portion of -Kansas and the Indian
territory. Matters of general interest
to stockmen were discussed but one
subject in particular came up
for consideration and that was
the advisability of - holding a
national convention of eatt Se
men which is
generally believed
should be held at some time during
the present year not later than Mnv
or June. Not a local or sectional af-
fair; but a convention to bu made up
of representatives from every por-
tion of the grazr g country of men
who are engaged in grazingbreeding
and handling cattle m tact cattle-
men generally no matter from what
portion ot the country. At this con-
vention would be discussed the many
and various subjects of such vital in-
terest to ranchmen and breeders;
how they can beet secure proper rec-
ognition from the national and state
governments; how tho products of
their industry may be realized oa to
the best advantage; tho best breeds
to accomplish particular results; the
prevention and ct.re of disease; the
troublesome question of inter-state
commere; shipping ra'es; commis
sions ana an humlrea otner sunjectf.
All these would properly come before
the convention in question. I
When it is considered that every ;
other important iau'iutry can boast of
tho most periect state una national
organizations formed and maintained
for tho mutual advantage oi tne mem
bers and when it is known thai there
are more persons and a greater
amount of capital represented in the
cattle business than in any other in-
dustry west of tue Missouri river.
there appears suiii-.-ient renson ior
holding a national convectiou.
Such a convention wouui oe some-
thing new and would certainly excite
a great interest. 1 1 would be made
up of the shrewaest men ot tne coun- .
try who could and no doubt would
give expression to their views ou the I
many and important questions con-
nected with the cattle business: and
this interchange of opinions and re-
lating of experiences would undoubt-
edly be is profitable as entertaining.
Where should this convention be
held ? We would without hesitation
say Kansas City but for ono reason:
The hotel accommodations '.here are
inadequate being barely suilicient
now to accommodate the ordinary de-
mands made on them. But St. Louis
is a central point and could accom-
modate the crowd in good style That
city belongs more to the west than
Chicigt and we neliove will be se-
lected should the convention be held
of which there now appears to ba but
little doubt.
The representative stockmen men-
tioned in the beginning of this article
have generally agreed to agitate this
question of this proposed convention
and have promised to have the press
of the country to give its assistance.
With two such engines the press and
the stockmen demanding that the
convention be held we have no doubt
about the result. And if it is held we
confidently expect that it will be the
most important gathering of the year
only excepting the two national con-
ventions The Chief Crop oi the country.
What May is for grass and July for
corn these winter months are for the
invaluable growing crop of boys and
girls; and upon the care and atten-
tion given to this crop the luture of
the country the lights and shadows
of our own coming years aud the suc-
cess of the boys and girls themselves
largely depend. The stenk breeder
looks carefully after the development
and training of his animals especially
if thoroughbreds. Should not we
with more solicitude try t.i
make thoroughbreds of our chil-
dren? Which do you visit
most frequently and examine
with most diligent interest the de-
veloping animals the grain fields the
fruit trees or the olive plants in the
school room? Do you personally
know tho trainer there -- his manner
and methods? What morning and
evening attention do your children
get save to know Ih it the chores are
well attended to? Do your father
and your mother personally know
where they aro in the evening hours
who are Iheir associates what outside
influences are molding their charac-
ters? Do you know that they aro
developing as strongly as symmetric-
ally as rapidly as they might?
It is not essential that young men
and women be positively bad or ob-
trusely disagreeable to fall short of
what they should or might be. I f we
plaut a tree or vine of the best vari-
ety and allow it to grow without spe
cial attention and tra ning we know
well what we shall find after a lapse
of years. It may overspread a wide
area of soil with a useless muss of
wood and foliage yielding a few
defective apples or ragged clusters
of grapes that are not poisonous but
such fruit is not in demand in the
world's market tor desirable for the
home table. So the boy or girl mere-
ly left to grow develops much as the
neglected vine. They may never be-
come v. clous and may even lie. spoken
of as good at heart like the half bar-
ren apple tree but are scarcely worth
the room they take up in the world
E. Jr. floe in American Agriculturist.
A Study 1 Husbands.
We hear much about the art of win
ning a husband. Let us take a step
further and make a study of keeping
a husband if he is worth winning
he is worth keeping. This is a wi"ked
world and man is dreadfully mortal.
Let us take him just as he is not as
he ought to be. Iu the first place he
is very weak lhe wile must spend
the first two years in discovering
these weaknesses count them on her
fingers and learn them by heart. The
fingers of both hands will not be too
many. Then let her study up
these weaknesses with a mesh
for every one and tho se-
cret is hers. Is fee fond of
a good dinner ? Let her tighten the
mean around mm witn migrant cot-
fee light bread and good things gener
ally and reach his heart through his
stomach. Is he fond of flattery and
his looks ? Let her study t he diction-
ary for sweet words if her supply
gives out. Does he like to hear her
talk about his brilliant intellect ? Let
her pore over the encyclopaedia to give
variety to the dept h of her admira
tion. Flattery is a good thing to
study up at all hazards in all its deli-
cate shades but it must be skillf ully
done. The harpy who may try to coax
him away will not do it absurdly.
Is he fond or nimseit t u ere s
the rub letter be bright and tidy;
that is half of the victory. Next let
J her bang her hair metaphorically and
I . .. : u . . a .-1 ...i.
&ecp up mill lJlc bliiica. Xk. jiuau(iu
who sees his wife look like other peo-
ple Is not going to consider her "Drok-
en down. Though it is a common
sneer that woman has admitted that
her sex consider more in marrying
the tastes of her iriends than her own
yet it must be considered ludicrous
that a man looks a his wife with the
same eyes that other people do. Is
he fond of literary matters? List-
en to him with wide open eyes
when he talks of them. A man
doesn't so much care for a literary
wife if only she will be literary
enough to appreciate him. If she
have literary inclinations keep them
to herself.
Men love to be big and great to
their wives. That's the reason why
a helpless little woman can marry
self-reliant i
woman's none. Cultivate helnleS3-!
ness. Is he curious.' o. men you
have a secret and keep it cirefully. Is . vibtn -t .?2V
haiAatniKt? Thon woman thU i not ' viLui vioratin over the course of
for von- torturing th lhe Painful nye.-:-The sittiDg usual-
fretteT hea which w-5- rou s I?lasta about half an bouMnd the pa-tMi-
M3. generally relieved wi'hout
Is he
- ... .--'i
ngjy
l.
1E5
Give
.:m -vf i.Ti own i
meuicme Siuiiiuiiy :-!
celiicl? Pay hiiii" I'-ir h
treat hiss as on wr.r i
ivertkm-sK;
oorn with a
phjiie-il ce-.ri -e"
i iut yciir. w'ts lo
work it is a bad cssk.
it u wed
not wastt
their powder aad shot on hens &nd
barnyard fowl; they like the pieasi
of puriuring wild gam quail ttwd
grousand der. ' A quail la a g od
u:oiel for a wife neat and trim w to.
a pretty swift way about and just a
lit;!- capricious. Never let your-8-.--1
Income aa ol-.l storv: be
a little uncertain. Another
important fact is don't be too
g.i)l: it hurt3 his feedings anel be-
comes monotonous. Cultivate a pleas-
ant voice so that this very mortal
man may have his conscience prick
him when he is in jeopardy; its pleas-
ant ring will haunt him much more
than would a shrill one. It ia hard to
do all this b! sides taking caro of the
babies and looking after vexatious
household cares a:id smiling when he
comes home: but it seems necessary.
"To be born a woman is to be born'a
martvr" says a husbaud wW for ten
years has watched ia amazement his
wile treading the wine-press of her
existence it is a pitiful sight to
some men. But if the wife does not
makea study of thv.' things the hap-
py will to steal away the honor from
his silver Ik irs when he is full of
years and the father of sons and
daughters. At tho same time gude
wile keep from trying any of these
things on ;: iy mortal man but your
own. These rules are only evolved in
order to "keep a husband. The poor
weak creature would rather be good
than had and it is woman s duty to
hold him by every means in her
power.
Regular Exercise.
Second only to the nourishment of
the blood by food is the regulation of
the action of all the vital functions
habitual exercise; that undertaken
spasmodically and at uncertain inter-
vals is injurious rather than benefi-
cial. Judicious exercise for brain-
workers is that which causes the
blood to circulate freely and affords a
change of position and action to the
cramped and weaned muscles in ad-
dition to some slight interest calcu
lated to insure a change of thought
and consequent relaxation to the tired
brain it should he taken out-of-
doors and in the sunshine if possible.
because sunlight is an impor-
i inub source oi pujtsicai vigor
lading op.n-air exercise abso
lute purity of the surrounding atmos
phere is imperative because its respi
ration furnishes to the blood that
quantity of oxygen necessary to the
process of destructive assimilation.
which restores vitality and the ner
vous system; the condition of the
nervous system affects the secretion
of the eastric juice and of course its
dr-lic'ency occasions impaired diges-
tion. When one has been writing for
several hours in a badly-ventilated
room or in one lighted with gas ex-
ercise in pure air is required to supply
the blood with oxygen and thus pre
pare the way for the proper nutrition
of the brain nervi s and muscles from
the next supply of food.
AVith the brain worker whether he
be literary man lawyer minister
speaker or merchant exercise replaces
that degree of manual labor upon
whh:h the health of the average work-
ingman depends; but he should never
be led astray by the idea that violent
physical eilort can in any way coun-
te; act the weariness arising from ex-
cessive mental toil; exercise to the
point of fatigue is suicidal to brain
workers; it is simply the kiUinar of a
half dead man. Thebi at time for gentle
outuoor exercise seems to be about
ir.id-atternoon if it can be taken
without exposure to excessive heat;
inesunngnt nas chemical properties
which act tonically i:pon tho system.
Early morning exercise has been
favored but it is as much to be repro
bated as early mental or physical la
bor because at that time vitality is at
itf lowest ebb and it needs stimula
tion rather than further depletion;
certamiy none uut tne gentlest exer
cise pnouid bo taken until the ex
hausted system has been supplied
witn auunuant nourisnment.
In the early afternoon especially if
a noonday dinner be taken the results
of mental labor are not as a rule sat-
isiac;ory because digestion and sound
tnougnt cannot proceed similtaneous-
ly; besides from noon until after 3
o'clock there is a preceptible disincli
nation ta work; the comparative ab
sence of electricity from the atmos-
flii is makes tho head heavy and in
duces drowsiness; tn same con
dition prevails again between
t or 10 o clock at night and
sunrise. There is little question of
the 1 act that atmospheric electricity
affect? the quality of mental labor;
when it is in excess from nine o'clock
in tho morning until noon the best
work is done all other conditions be
ing lavorable; sg.un from about six
o'clock in the evening; it rises and is
maintained for some three hours. In
regard to seiison there is less atmos
pheric electricity in midsummer than
in midwinter.
In default of the ability to ensf mio
in the requisite exercise persona av-
ing sedentary lives should bathe
nightly In as cool water as their
capacity for reaction will permit and
employ subsequent vigorous friction
with bath towels or flesh brushes; or
resort to what is now sanctioned as
legitimate practice massage i. e. the
vigorouse rubbing of the flesh and
the manipulation of he joints by the
haad3 of a strong and experienced
operator.
The Danger of Kissing.
A eonsumptive young man in Read
i.ig. Pa. is at death's door and two
girls to whom be had successively en
gaged himseir nave already passed
through. The doctors say that both
took i onsumption from inhaling his
breath as neither of them inherited
the disease. This is a sad and terrible
thought. There must be an awful
deal of kissing done in a regular Read-
ing courtship to produce such de
cided results. But the case suggests
dangers which are terrible to con-
template. If kissing is a
method of communicating and
taking disease who will dare to
engage in the operation of respondent
in the case ? It will interpose numer-
ous barriers to that sweet entrancing
art which may have a decidedly de-
terrent effect. Suppose a young man
moved to imprint a soulful kiss on the
lips of a beam if ul girl were abruptly
checked in the height of his ardor by a
sudden exclamation like this: "Hold
sir! Are you quite sure that your
lungs are entirely free from tubercu-
lar disease? Have you a physician's
certificate of recent date showing that
you are perfectly free from any and
every disorder that might possi-
bly be communicated by touch or
breath? Did .any of your ances-
tors die ot consumption? Did you
ever' court a consumptive girl?''
Then if you are fortunately able to
answer all these interrogatories In
the affirmative she mav ex-
claim: "Yes my dear able bodied
quite hygienic and perfectly pulmo-
nary lover we will now proceed to
perform tho osculatory act at your
pleasure. The probabilities are that
he will have recovered from all wish
to kiss the beauteom being long be-
fore she gets through with her cate-
chism. On the whole conrtinsr a
girl on the other side of a high board
ience with fourteen aunts and six-
teen old maids watching the perform
ance from as many windows would
be paradise in comparison.
President Arthur is thanks ta the
civil service reform act less plagued
with importunities for small appoint-
ments than any president has been
for a quarter of a century. He sees a
good many sftnators and members but
it ll.'LH. r . a'. .
i mo unite iiouse is a gooa deal
: quieter place than it was a year or
lwo ai
! -Neoraiglatreatedbytbetuningfork:
jnnpprrc-tnfti-r.t - -
- . ; r "
i " One Savtchuk a Russian who
live? In a Bessarabian trnvince. is de-
flared to be 130 years cf age and to-j
ucy peri ens health ana 6trargta.
Ui L-Vir which wa fcrui&riy white
haa taken ta agn!ina ht.
10 Comet of luii.
1W nearly two months unclouded
sunsets save presented a phenomenon
bo strange beautiful ana utterly un-
recorded in the annals of- experience
that judgment the result of compar
isons ot ideas or phenomena aud
synthetical thought have labored ddi-
gently to account siitislactoiily for
tne appearances.
in .the fctar of Sundav an editorial
gave a brief outline of the explana
tion. Therein it was set forth that
since about November 20 last tho
earth has been traveling on her
orb t through aa arc of comet ie
matter the perpendicular of which
ia probably about 10.000.00i) or
12.000.0CO of mile? the comet
and tho earth traveling in the same
direction. Now as tho comet came
from southward and described an arc
of 340 deereesbatwdaa S 'pt ember 7.
1SS2 aud May 20 1S63. the last obser-
vation made it is clear that it must be
a louir-Denod comet: that its motion
must be slow: that its tenuity can on
ly be expressed in termi of the lightest
gas; that it has no axial motion; that
its light is mostly duo to reflection
and hardly anything to incandescence;
that it wanted the distinctive coma
or radiance due to inherent heat; that
its tail was faint and of enormous
length showing that its composition
lacked density; in short that it was a
comparatively new comet.
Making its perihelion about July 1
1883 and moving as it did from
southwest it must have lagged a
portion of its substance trailing along
the orbit ot the earth or more proper-
ly enveloping the plane of the ecliptic
to the northeast on a descending node.
Our corteous correspondent Mr. Fos-
ter whose coifiinunication we priut
this mornnig seems to think that the
comet moved ia the plane of our or-
bit when in fact no con ei was ever
observed which even approached it
and most of them moved in parabolas
hich are from 75 to 90 degrees op-
posed to our orbit. He has the old
orthodox idea that the tail is some-
thing outside the comet when it is
merely a pencil of light showing the
sphere's semi-diameter or radius.
Under the conditions herein speci-
fied the "tail" would be directly on
the earth or eo little inclined south-
ward that it could not be seen as it
would be obliterated by the sun's
rays in daytime and at night we wonld
be turned away from its nucl us catch-
ing only a glimpse of its presence at
sunset when a lavorable angle of re-
flection would be presented and the
brilliant ruddy raya be diverged from
their linear course.
Noeometcan approach very near
to the sun. Heat is the great repel-
lant and keeps us at our 93000000
miles distant from the sun. The spe-
cific gravity of the earth is so great
and the pull oi affinity bo strong that
we would fall on the suns Burface
unless impeded by something. What
is that something? The enormous dy
namic repulsion ot tne neat rays em a
nating from the sun's photsophere.
A comet is so diffused that the sun's
heat rays pass through it unobstruct
ed until very close to the sun's body
when tne neat torce can exert itsell
and drive the comet away faster and
on a larger arc than it approached.
Tho idea of tho sun's sid receiving an
"impact" from the nucleus of a comet
through which stars can be seen is
somewhat illogical.
The best theory is that one already
exploited ot the passage of the earth
through a portion of the body of the
comet of 1832.
The figures given in Gov. Cleve
land's message show that during last
year the state of New York received
for the purpose of education 813.000-
000. and expenued nearly 312.000000.
In the 115 active savings banks in the
state a million depositors have ac
counts aggregating 8420.831000. There
is the sum of 6114000000 on deposit
in the eighty-four state banks of uis
count. The increase during the year
in the deposits in the ZOO banks com-
ing under the supervision of the state
authorities has been more than $50-
000000. Two hundred insurance com-
panies fire marine life and casualty
htve assets amounting to 0 10.000000
f which 8134.500000 belongs to the re-
8 lectlve surplus accounts. In its Na-
tional Guard the state has an efficient
army of nearly 12000 men. There
are 2828 convicts in the state prisons
while the total population of all the
state penal reformatory smd .protect-
ive institutions i-J about 15.000. There
are 11000 insane. The various chari-
table institutions own propei ty
amounting to 842.035000 and the
expended 810291.000 last year in the
relief of the unfortunate. During a
season more than a month shorter
than usual 5.775.631 toLS of freight
ptssed through the free canals. At
Castle Garden thpre arrived last year
300000 immigrants. In taxes from
corporations the treasurer received
81935.000. The debt of the state less
the amount in the linking fund is
only 85978301 nearly all of which is
on the old canal construction account.
The tax rate last year was three mills
and a quarter. The assessed valua-
tion of personal property and real es-
tate in New i'ork is almost three
thousand million dollars.
The Way They Did It.
IWashlnct in 1 rea Presx.
Col. Wintersmtth doorkeeper of
the House of Representatives has
made his appointment of the officers
in his department for the Lone Star
state which comprises two appoint-
ments one at 81200 and one at 91000
per unnum. These two minor places
are all that are left for distribution
and the Texas gentleman clamoring
for places clamor they ever bo loudlv
and persistently must accept them or
nothing in view or tne ract that the
Texas deleg ttion endorsed the candi
dacy of WintersinJlb carpet-bngger
to the pn j idice.of the claims of such
represent at ye men and old residents
as Gen. A. J. Dorn ex-stite treasurer
and others the treatment of Texas by
coi. jim ' in the distribution of offi
cial patronage is regarded as shabby
in tne extreme it is sale to twume
that this "scion of K-intucky" will
pever again receive tho endorsement
of the members from Texas for any
place in the Congress of the United
States.
A certain young Hebrew traveling
man with an elderly companion
bought a special ticket of a scalper
and got aboard of the train. When
the conductor came around be took
up Isaac s ticket and looked at the
name and then rtt Isa-ic shook his
head and eald:
"What's your name?"-
"Let me see my ticket." i
"Can't you tell your name without
seeing the ticket? This won't do.
x ou 11 have to get off at the next sta-
tion or pay your fare."
This agitated Isaac profoundly and
he turned to his companion and
said:
"Moses I have forgot my name
that was on the ticket. Can you tell
me wnat it is t
Vill you let me see dot ticket. Mr.
Coondogter?" inquired Moses. The
conductor showed it to him. "Mein
Got Irak vot name is dees ? Patrick
Moriarlty: No vonder you don't re-
comember dot name! Dond you nefer
get Borne more tecketa of dem 6t-hool-pers
mit dot name on. Dey vill all de
times gif you avay." The Drummer.
The Marquis de Bays a French
nobleman with nothing but an old
iireton title some two years ago ad-
vertised throuzbout France a scheme
for colonizing Fort Breton in the
South seas. Small capitalists chiefly
hard-working agriculturists invested
in the enterprise and eighty-nine of
them sailed on a vessel chartered by
the Marqui?. Their sufferings on the
voyage were terrible and when they
arrived at their destination many of
them died of starvation and despair;
some of them were killed and eaten
by native cannibals and others who
followed shared ths eai?e ft2. It is
however satisfactory to bear that the
Marquis and several of his associate
were condemned to various terms of
imprisonment and to the payment of
heavy fine.
i rencn justice is prover
bially bwHt and iure and does not
evui bhke lata eonsideratlon th fel-
rngef tshiliry.
Old I. apt. -JaW' VimdcrbUt bi the
nanie of a member of that noted' fam-
ily which is seldom hwrd. Sa Is a
brother of the dead Commodore and
though now over four score years
btill has full possession of all his fac-
ulties. He lives very comfortably on
Staten Island fj-m and seldom
troubles "Billy" as he calls his
nephew or any of the other members
of the family.
Georgia is not presenting any spe-
cal claims to a representation on the
presidential ticket but she has the
consolation that at least two of her
rept tentative men have been thought
of m that connection.
During a recent lecturedn a Phlla-
yui'ma uuiueiay or pnarmacy glass
i iri ia.....l i . i
.... ...j ..w.-tu urouaur containing
'HUMllt'S Of I'tlltiviltt'.i iliuon rrarma
" - -. mwv CElUlih
1 0!i!(.eS flit in hRl VM lm.l l.r. iirrhf It.
biaearu! with a coating of substances
cotiuuaiug germs. The bacteria were
nourished on the moist surface of the
potato and presented verv interesting
appearances. Different results were
oblhiiied from diflfernnr. liaptori-i
Some of the half i otatoes were cover
ed witu an ordir ary deposit of mould.
On others the disease germs had de-
eiopeu into ii m peculiarly shaped
Hatches of funaus growth of bright
blue red yrllow and greenish colors.
Others had grown into an intricate
and extensivn network nf f H77V lil rna
the growth on the surfaces of "two or
iureo potatoes reacning over and cov-
ering a space having a diameter ol
eijjbt or Dine inches.
Theodore Tilt on is living quietly ir
Quarter L-Uin Paris near ttw School
ot Fine Arte engaged busily in liter-
ary work. "I hive my ro.tifolioa
full of unfinished work. It struck
ms if I could get away Into some
quiet nook like this 1 could find op-
portunity to complete what I have be -gun.
I may rem tin here nil winter
with the exjcpti.ja of a little visit to
Rome. I am quite alone both of my
married daughters being now in Ch.-
cago.
The statement going the rounds of
the rural press and not infrequently
finding its way into the columns of
metropolitan j-umal3 appended to an
open-faced wo : -ut of the budding
young statesman to the effect that
Mr. George A. Post congressman
from the Erie P.t district is the
youngest man ever elected to Con-
gress is far from correct. Mr. Post is
twer- -niue years of age which is tho
sfn;i as the age of the late President
Pierce when he entered Congress of
Emory Speer of Georgia John E.
Kenna. of West Virginia and various
others that might be mentioned. Still
younger men however have occupied
seats ia tho national legislature In-
cludiug John D. White ot Kentucky
and P. II. Durge of New York who
were tleoted at twenty-six.
OF
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This pare wine U a ilmpla veg-
table extract without intoxioatinff I
qoalitlea and baa prored to be the V
mofltaatonUhingTONIC FOR WOMEN I
known te medical eolenoe. - )
I A well-known eentleman larit "Mr
wile baa been in delicate health for rtf
teen years. She suffered fearfully every
month with pains and excessive menw-s.
Doctors could do her no frogj. Onvbottk-
of MuElree's Wine of Cardnl restored her
health and she eained eighteen oounds
V in weight in two months while taking It. '
McElree's Wine of Cardol Is re com- (
mended for painful monthly habit i
difficult suppressed excessive and I
irregular Henses Whites Falling- of j
tbe Womb Change of Life General '
Debility and aa a tonic for deUcat
ladles. It was tested in 7000 ease
and eared 6000 of tnem. Its as tor .
lulling action mystified Doctors )e- i
lighted sufferers and restored thoju-
sands of suffering women ta health
and happiness. Druggists sell it at
Sl.OO per Bottle. A sixty-four paa
pamphlet telling all about It free by
CHATTANOOGA MEDICINE P3.
CHATTANOOCA. TENN
T33 32TH K6Vc AM MUBCL?. !
Strengthenin
fattening.
OOLDEN'SLIQUIDBEEFTON I c
it prontiMnrrtt by neorta of ph t-
lviini and by t?untnnd of people trio
have mrf U to be th bnt lenovm rrnifty .
for Drbilltf. Dyrprpuln In dlgnHon Is.Mof
Appetite Zom of mi? Completing .
Female Weaknm ffmifrtn IrHtaldllty Mn- .
lariat Fever and many 'wr Abeam vher
lottirm are required tt'.ffrrlng ementtalltf
front alt other iter? VtmJm nnd Tonic.
IT IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF
the lUoodand enrictu It and is there-
fore a line ineiaorant and corrective
ia oaties o f al I eltronie nuiladiet w h lr i i
are awoclated with an lai-ovxRisn;.:.
state OF TBZ BLOOD. Th-e a 11 yiiif .
to tho regulating and nonrinainfC! en'.-'
ertleeof lw great food tonic o:envni-
It compensates for the loss cfnlulltji
Induced by Consumption Catarrh cr
JironrhLal and Throat affectione. Jt
teiil remrdu Feminine 1iUUj nr.. I -reimburse
the Female plajifie fur
those lottra of vitality acconi j.nny- "
n oompUUnU peculiar to the sex. -"fOUiennurring
their own -'. Ihh-en '
QQjdfllcate women wlio er -.r-et U
" mothers and bring I ; rtyor- -eat
cHUdm should by al 1 r. . r.us u
It. If -Ul rtmtore muffrrr from
Mental or yereout Proetration uriB-
lng from Oeer-trork BrccMrm or
protracted Disease. Jt vill cure
JrtntkcHff and tho Opium Jlabil
tor as the appetite grown lipolUtt- '
and digestion more vigoroin through
the use of this Tonic ths unnainrnl
craving dies away notll totally i-z-tlnct.
It is high! y beneficial In i ;
Complaints Malarial Fever - at.
ALt Malarial Disease t and for tho
debilitating effects ot Fevrr of trx i
kind It has no efnaL Jt repairs
waste improves Dt'Jrstian and Ap- v :
petite aud affords the Dymxptie Jn-
ralld an easlljf assimilable mrtlclr
of food) and Is so pleasant to tbe tnsir
that the most sensltlre palate wll knot
reject it. -
THAT THE MEDICA- PROFESSION
and loraUds generally may proicrly
undorstHnd tbe merits of 'CoUU-n's
IAqnld Jteef Tonic" an analysis ty
the eminent chemist AiTDCH KILL .
HASgALL M.D. F.B.S. of London.
England ."and also an endorsement to
the celebrated pbyslclan Profewdr .
BIB ERASMUS WILSON I.E.B.LL.I. ;
of London are labeled-on each bouh-.
C'
jAOTrfJS Colden's Liquid
BLtr -ivxiv is au aiiDrevimion ii
lisorlglnnl name "COLDEN'S Lir-
BI6 8 LIQUID EXT K ACT OP BEEF-a.NO
TO'iC Ui TIoOPATOn." Eaca bottle &- 17
tMsrlginal name a m.ir' of genuine. '
which soCLiid e'.wsys bobserfvl a uu'i'.v '
ore several poor imlt'ttSan. Tr.e sal-' ' 1-
ortty OS He mavensis sod cenpoMtioa M i
Fnevaiiystm bottles Iar O. K.ili: 1 h
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