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WEEKLY STATESMAN.
AUSTIN. TKXAtt.
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. Vice-President.
ttecretary
General Manage1'
HATES OF BUBSCRIPTIOM.
daily.
Ona Year (Invariably la advance) ......$10 00
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Three montba " " 5?
One month ' " ' ... 1 00
One week " "
aCKDAT DAILY.
Twelve months 2
Biz months . .. i w
WIHLT.
10.78
Twelve montha !
Pottage (m to all parte of the "United States
Canada ana Mexico.
Kemlt by draft on Anetln P. O. money order
poatal note regletered letter or ezpreea. Hample
coplea aent free on application. Back nnmbera
can be enpplled.
New York Office: 8. C. Beckwlth Manager 48
Trlhnne Building. Chicago Office: 60S "The
Rookery."
Twelve Pages.
Hill of New York for 1892? Well
no! It's apt to be a western man next
time.
Whem Blaine carrying out hie jingo
polioy will hava killed out the yellow fever
microbe in Cuba he oan then destroy the
germs in Canada and thus gave the ooun-
try from disease on both sides.
Fob a quarter of a oentary Kansas has
been the receptacle of stolen horses and
oattle from Texas and other parts of the
sooth by Kansans aod yet those people
want to put as nnder military role.
Tnx Germans don't appear to be suc-
cessful oolonizers. They have stirred op
the natives of Eatit Afrioa and got the
missionaries slaughtered. In Samoa they
have raised Cain and turned the natives
agBinst all white people.
Habbison and Morton have been
officially announoed elected respectively
president and vioe-preBident of these
United States. The momentous question
may be regarded as settled and the union
oan rock along quietly again.
Tms oaps the climax a syndicate of
republicans controlling $(100000000 pro-
pose at the next Canadian election to use
a system of.wholene.le bribery as they
did in the late presidential election and
by that means secure the annexation of
Canada. Bribery however in Canada
may not be so easy as in the United
States.
Tux exouse of inoreasod expenditure is
very poor objeotiou indeed to be urged
aguinpt the proposition to separate state
oluotions from oontaot with and the over-
shadowing iniluonoe of federal elections
A ureat state and its people oannot afford
to oount dollars and cents when suoh a
benefit whose advantage is not readily
computable Is to be secured. Texas is
too pronouncedly a democratic state to
rub up against a republican administra-
tion without creating considerable friction.
We should take advantage of time and
opportunity while we have them.
Til senate ooinmittee has reported
favorably the bill making Febroary 22 of
eaok year Arbor day for Texas. It is an
excellent idea and should become a law.
Texas needs shade trees she bIho often'
very often needs rain. Not about now it
is true but it is generally dry dry dis-
- tressingly dry about June July and
August. Trees and undergrowth are
great gatherers of moisture that upon
persuasion after suflloient aooumnlation
is precipitated as rain and the earth 1b
rejoioed. We need trees let Texas have
an Arbor day.
It is reported that Senator Flumb tms
read in the United States senate
a set of resolutions passed by the
house of the Kansas legislature
now in; session to the effeot that
eleotions in the sooth muBt be purified
even If military rule must be again resorted
to. Eleotions in those days were so pure
and honestthat indeed it seems like a
dream of elysiom to contemplate their
return and the unmixed joys of re-aooli-mation
among us. Bosh! Suoh cant is
abominable. Let the northern state that
is without fault oaet the first stoDe. The
day of military role in the south will
never be resncreoted from the grave of
odium where it is bnried. There Is aud
oan be no occasion for it nor will suoh
ever at our volition arise.
CHANGING THE TIME OK ELECTIONS?
In a letter to Oeneral Hamby in refer-
ence to the bill introduced by bim in the
legislature providing for separating state
from federal elections Senator Reagan
says: "I am glad you have introduced
the bill and hope it may become a law as
It would leave no pretext by the federal
government for interference in state elec-
tions. 1 think it would be fortunate if all
the southern states should adopt the same
course." Senator Reagan is and has for
many years been at the seat of the federal
government and can feel the pulse of the
national legislature as it is not given us
to do. His opinion then is entitled to the
dignity of the highest authority. He
would not counsel a change in our laws of
this Importance without having given the
object much careful study and our legis-
lator! oan with assured profit lay this ad-
vloe of his by for future referenee when
action upon the pending bill is to be had.
THE UNIVERSITY LANDS.
The house land bill which will be pre-
sented by the committee will perpetnate
the injustioe to the University of fixing
the prioe for leases of its lands at the
same figure (3 cents) as the school lands.
This is but another reason why the legis-
lature should give the regents oontrol of
the University lands and strengthens the
argument that they should have been
plaoed in the regents hands years ago
when the latter could have leased five
hundred thousand aorea of them at 5 oents
an acre if the land board had not raised
the minimum for all the lands University
as well as well as school lands from 4 to 6
cents an acre and refused to make any
concession from the minimum as the in-
terests of the University demanded
although it is well known that the Uni-
versity lands are far inferior as a class
and are not at all calculated to compete
with the school lands in the estimation of
the cattlemen for pasturage.
Now that it is proposed to reduce the
minimum for the University lands along
with those of the free sohools to 8 cents
what advantages may well be asked will
accrue to the state in still subjecting the
inferior lands of the University to the
same rule as the more desirable school
lands f Why not make the rule flexible as
to leases of the former or turn tbem over
bodily to the management of the regents
who by giving them their more interested
and speoial attention can certainly do
better with them for the University than
oan the state land commissioner f Why
hold them befated to the same frigid
rules required for the school landsf And
why keep the regenoy hampered with
suoh barren powers as to the management
of the University's interests?
A it is the University lands are largely
almost wholly oooupied by free grape
men and have been for years. There is no
existing law enforceable to dispossess or
disturb these occupants. They do not
need to "line ride" nor fonoe; on a body
of half a million acres. The proposed bill
ill work no advantage to the University
lands in competition as stated with the
more desirable and consequently more
readily leased school lands. There will
not be fifty thousand acres of them leased
in the next two years. There will likely
however be forty or fifty seotionB entered
of the best mineral and watered seotions
of this land to the great detriment and
injury to the value of the remainder.
Some of these lands are now fenced and
have wells upon them and the occupants
are not disturbed in tnoir posses-
sion nor do they pay tribute
for their use. If they have
boen given to the University and the state
desires a University to give higher educa
tion to her sons and daughters why not-
nse some business tact and skill in pro
viding for revenue from them? If the
state does not want a University then
there is no argument to meet the oase. If
however she intends to foster an institu-
tion wbioh waa founded almost with the
inception of the state government and
was cherished by its founders as an
essential part of its benefioenoe and
grandeur surely some praotioal business
judgment should be nsed in this matter.
No business man or business firm will buy
a landed estate in the shape and helpless
oondition of these lands. If the re-
gents have failed to present to the
present legislature the public inter-
est relating to the proper
and profitable management of these lands
in order to seoure an income to the insti-
tution whose interest they are chosen to
represent they have been derelict in their
duty to the publio and are guilty of a
crime against the youths of the oommon
wealth of Taxas. If however they have
fairly presented the faots so as to folly
represent the question the responsibility
should not be plaoed against them nor
should the possible fact that they may
have made some mistakes prejudioe the
interests of the University before the
legislature since the history of the insti-
tution shows that the state itself has
made grave blunders and omissions in its
management of the University's resources.
Suoh institutions are too grand as faotors
of state pride to be treated in any vin-
dictive or prejudiced partisan spirit. A
state university is the university of the
whole state and not of any olass or section
and as such should be oherished by the
people and fostered by legislation.
OUK CONFEDERATE HOME.
Major Joe H. Stewart the sgeht and
representative of the Confederate home
in the northeast is doing exoellent work
for that indigent institution. He secured
quite a good contribution from the people
of Boston and is now in New York kind-
ling considerable interest in our humble
home for the needy remnant of those who
fought on the side that lost its cause and
with it riches and even in many very
many oases the means of actual suste-
nance. The press of New York city as is
invariably the rule in the starting of all
good enterprises have taken hold of
Major Stewart and his plea for aid and
are treatiug him most royally while
in the strongest terms they present
his mission to the people of that
eastern metropolis. These great
moulders of publio opinion with
wonderful and most praiseworthy
unanimity have joined forces in advoca-
ting the petition sent out from the little
home that crowns the hill west of our
city. Considerable material results are
expeoted from New York oity the great
money center of our nation.
dat while these strangers and those
too who fought on the other side in the
AUSTIN WEEKLY STATESMAN.
great contest happily over and gone are
doing so handsomely by our borne why
should we whose doty in the premises is
mnoh greater be idle? True we may have
done mnoh in the past but that should
not preclude us from doing more in the
future. Austin and the majority of her
citizens have been extremely lib-
eral to this home. Other cities
and counties of the state have sent
up their contributions but what has the
state as an entity done? It will not do
to say the Constitution forbids the legisla-
te to appropriate money for the snpport
of suoh a oharitable institution. That is
a known and admitted truth. But there
is no. impediment in the way of the legis-
lature conferring benefits npon the home
that oan be converted into money or
would be equivalent to it in conserving
the interests of the home. Suoh relief
and favors have been asked of our legis-
lators. Will they grant tbem? The eyes
of the states of the Union are upon
us. Even that distinguished military
leader General Sherman has writ-
ten a most kindly considerate
and encouraging letter touching our home
and'lts future. But in that letter he puts
a question the people of the union
have a right to expect to have answered
before they contribute to this cause:
"What has or is the state of Texas doing
for the support of that home?" The
legislature has relief within its power.
Don't hurt the home and its sweetly oharit-
able purpose by refusing to grant that
relief. Your action will be quoted agaiDst
us most ruinously if you pursue suoh
illiberal course. Help this home in the
same spirit of love of state as animated
the poor unfortunates who will be its in
mates when they went forth to lose their
all in a cause they thought just and right
STOPPING FOKEIGN THADE.
In a week or two the new administra
tion takes hold. After the 4th of March
the Republioan party will be in supreme
oontrol of the government. The princi-
ples and policies of that party are to be
carried out. One of them the high pro-
tective tariff will be adhered to. If there
is any ohange it will be to pile on higher
the burden of taxation already irksome
to the shoulders of the southern people.
The republican protectionists reinforoed
by protectionists from the demooratio
ranks will have a solid majority in the
next congress and Hushed with success
in the eleotions of 1888 will no doubt
raise the protection tax on imports even
higher thnn the schedules of the Benate
tariff substitute bill just declared uncon-
stitutional by the house oommittee on
ways and means. Indeed judging from
the drift of some of the leading protec-
tionist journals of the north and east
the idea seems gaining ground in the re-
publioan party and may find expression
i i the new republican oongress that it
might be as well with a view of affeoting
the balance of trade with foreign countries
to put our duties so high as praotioally to
stop trade with them altogether. By such
a polioy the American manufacturer
would sn y to the farmer: "I will sell my
goods to you very high which will .enable
me to pay a good prioe for your stuff."
Of course it is robbery but it is the
policy voted for by the ignorant masses
of the north and the people of the north
and east who sold their votes for republi
oan gold in the reoent election. When the
republioan party has fully oarried out its
tariff polioy under the Harrison adminis
tration the farmers of the western states
who shouted and hurrahed for republican
principles and prostrated themselves at
the foot of the eastern Moloch will make
wry faces when they come to swallow a
bitter pill of their own preparing. It is
sincerely hoped they will get enough of
"protection ."
REVIVAL OF RADICALISM.
It were folly for us of the South to shut
our eyes to indications all over the north
and east of a revival of radicalism. The
fire of sectional hate which every lover of
his oonntry had imagined and hoped
extinguished seems all at onoe to have
blazed up afresh with the eleotion of a
republican president after a peaceful
prosperous and nappy democratic in-
terregnum of four years. The utterances
of suoh organs of republican opinion as
the New York Tribune the Chicago
Tribune and the Chicago Inter-Ocean the
action of the Evarts committee in oon-
gress the introduction of the Sherman
eleotion bill the passage of the
Kansas resolutions and hundreds of other
like instances all go to show that the ultra
element of the republioan party is com-
bining and preparing for another crusade
upon the south. Of course they must
have a pretext which is alleged suppree-
sion of the negro vote but their real pur-
pose is plunder which has always been
thdtr objeot and to strike down the south
rising from the ruin of one of the most
destructive civil war in history the
south whose rapidly increasing indastries
and manufactures arouse alarm in New
England and the middle states.
As we have heretofore held our hope is
the groat conservative element of the re-
publioan party in the north may like the
cliffs of a storm beaten const hurl back
the billows of sectional hate which twenty-
five years after Appomattox again
threaten to overwhelm and engulf the un-
fortunate south.
Fbidai night it looked like Dorr demo-
crat would on yesterday decide the Goff-
Kenna contest in West Virginia. Bnt he
didn't. On tne contrary other combina-
tions have apparently postponed the re
suit indefinitely.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21
THE STATE CAPITOL.
Matters Picked Up in Our Tour of
the Departments.
Important and Interesting Infor-
mation for County Officials
and the People.
From Saturday's Dally.
The following charters were filed yes-
terday: The Wharton Building and Loan asso-
ciation; capital stock 50000. Incorpo-
rators: J. it. Ccmmings G.G.Kelly L.
S. Marmion Tom Brooks R. A. Arm-
strong A. G. Moore Frank Page C.
Cooper and Robert Law.
The West Dallas Railway company; cap-
ital stook f 50000. Incorporators: H.G
Kelley W. D. Wylie W. H. Simmon H. G.
Fleming C. E. Brown B. S. Walton J. F.
Elliott W. M. Williams and Frank Farnell.
The Loan Star Craoker company of
Galveston amended its oharter so as to
include the manufacture and sale of gro-
ceries. oomptbolleb's department.
The comptroller yesterday deposited
$15800 to general revenue and $3500 to
the sohool fund.
In a oiroular to tax assessors sent out by
Comptroller MoCall he gives the follow-
ing instructions relative to the valuation
of property:
Real property for the purpoae of taxa-
tion shall be construed to include the land
itself whether laid out in town lots or
otherwise and all the buildings structures
and improvements or other fixtures of
whatsoever kind thereon and all the rights
and privileges belonging or in any wise
appertaining thereto and all mines min-
erals quarries and fossils in and under
the same. (Article 4670 Revised Statute.)
Personal property shall for the purpose
of taxation be construed to include all
goods chattels moneys credits and ef-
fects whatsoever they may be in this state:
Provided That moneys credits bonds
aud other evidences of debt shall be In-
cluded whether the same be in or out of
this state; all ships boats and vessels be-
longing to inhabitants of this stateif reg
istered in this state whether at home or
abroad and all oapital invested therein;
all moneys at interest either within or
without this state due the persons to be
taxed over and above what he pays inter-
est for and all other debts due such per-
sons over and above their indebtedness;
all publio stooks and securities; all stocks
in turnpikes railroads canals aud other
corporations (exoept national banks) out
of the state owned by inhabitants of this
state; all personal estate of moneyed cor-
porations whether the owners thereof
reside in or out of the state and the
iuoome of any annuity unless the
capital of such annuity be taxed within
the state; all shares in any bank organized
or that may be organized nnder tne law
of the United States; all improvements
made by persons upon lands held by them
the title to which is still vested in the
state of Texas or in any railroad oompany
or whioh have been exempted from tax-
ation for the benefit of any railroad oom-
pany or other corporation whose property
is not subjeot to the same mode and rule
of taxation as other property: Provided
That nothing in this aeotion shall be con-
strued as to exempt from taxation any
improvements on lands granted to any
railroad oompany or other corporation
and exempted from taxation for a term
of years. (Acts 1879 Chap. 40 p. 3!).)
Eaoh separate parcel of real property
shall be valued at its true and full value
in money exoluding the value of crops
growing or nDgathered theron.
In determining the true and full value
of real and personal property the assessor
shall not adopt a lower or different stan-
dard of value beoause the same is to serve
as a basis of taxation nor shall he adopt
as a oriterionof value the prioe for whioh
suoh property would sell at auction or a
forced sale or in the aggregate with all
the property in his county; but he shall
value eaoh trao. or lot by itself and at
suoh sum or prioe as he believes the same
to be fairly worth in money at the time
suoh assessment is made.
In valuing any real property on whioh
there is a coal or other mine or stone or
other quarry or springs possessing me-
dioinal properties the same shall be
valued at such a prioe as such property
inoluding a mine or quarry or spring
would probably sell at a fair voluntary
sale for cash.
Personal property of every description
shall be valued at its true value in money.
Money whether in possession or on
deposit or in the hands of any member of
the family or any person whatsoever
shall be entered in the statement at the
full amount thereof.
Every oredit for a sum certain payable
either in money or property of any kind
shall be valued at the full value of the
same so payable. If for a speoifio article
or for a speoifio number or quantity of
property of any kind it shall
be valued at the current price of
such property at the plaoe where
payable. Annuities or moneys payable
at stated periods shall be valued at the
price that the person listing the same be-
lieves them to be worth in money.
The Constitution of the state of Texas
provides that taxation shall be equal and
uniform; and the attention of assessors is
especially direoted to this; the bnrden of
axation should be equally distributed.
In oase assessors are satisfied that the
property rendered by aotual residents of
their counties is oorreotly valued they
shall list the same accordingly but if they
are satisfied that the value is too low
they shall list the property at such value
as they as sworn officers deem just as re-
quired by artiole 4714 Revised Statutes
(to whioh assessors are referred) and if
parties rendering the property oonsider
the value fixed by the assessors excessive
the value ahall be deoided by the board of
equalization whose valuation shall be
final. Parties objeoting to valuation
fixed by the assessors should be informed
of the reference of the matter to the
board of equalization.
Assessors of taxes are empowered and
authorized to administer all oaths neces-
sary to obtain a full complete and cor-
rect assessment of all taxable property
situated in their respective counties; and
assessors are earnestly requested to pro-
pound such questions to all persons ren-
dering property for taxation as will attain
this resuK (Article 4701 Revised Stat-
utes.) From Sunday's Dally.'
The Whitney Co-operative association
of Hill county. Capital stock $10000.
couptbollcb's office.
The comptroller yesterday deposited
about $4000 to the credit of the general
revenue.
The comptroller in his oiroular of in-
1889
in reference to
asseasorsare 8"ucted to
ands as usua on the ro i o
known ?ners- maC8.8.et The annual
rendered by some party . au
sold. By this means an aooount is kept o.
hH"or of taxes shall discover in
his county or outside of his county but
ms counij county any
' 8n or.ertv which has not been
. r . -j f tmation every
assessed or --
)ouu
not hC
assess the same for each and
nm friV turn VHHfD UODV u
for two years pssi " -
ie same for eacn anu c.o.j
thus omitted wtuon u "-.
.ihaA fnr
resident in the manner P-"""-":
assessing other Property and such
assessment shall be valid and binding as
though it had been rendered by the owner
thereof. (Chap. 133 laws 1887.)
All persons companies and
tions owning pastures in the state which
t! hnnniiAl-ieS. Shall 06 T6
quired to list for assessment aU livestock
of every kind owned by them in said pas-
tures in the several counties in which suoh
pastures are situateo imuB
county suoh portion of said stook as the
land in noon county is in tuo r
ah r.oina pnmnftnies and oorpo
Mtions owning holding any kind of
livestock not tneir own shall list snon
livestock in the several oounties in wtuon
.u rB Kitnated in the same
.... ami in hnth cases the tax
sessed upon such livestook sholl be paid
to the tax collectors of the several counties
in whioh suoh livestook is listed ana as
..... mhnntnr 118. laws 1887.)
Where personal property such as cattle
and horses range in more than one oounty
the owner of the same living
near the oounty line he shall
render to the assessor of the county
in whioh he resides the entire num-
ber owned: but in o. se he has a sepsrote
mnnh in nnnther oonntv. he shall render
this on a seDarttte inventory to be for
warded to this offioe and the same will be
sent to the assessor of the county in which
Bftid rnnoh is situated
In view of the oath prescribed for par
ties rendering property for taxa
tion that thev shall make a ren
Hit.inn to the assessor of the
countv of their residenoe of all per
sonal property owned in the state and
other seotions of the law bearing upon
the same subject the following instruo
tions are issued as to the assessments of
personal property in other counties than
the oounties of the owners' residenoe:
Assessors will require all parties to ren
der to them not only the personal prop
erty situated in the oounty where the tax
payer resides but also they will require a
full inventory of the personal property
owned by the party rendering whioh
situated in other oounties; separate in
ventories will be made of the property
situated in eaoh oounty in the state as
rendered by the several owners aud the
same will be full and complete so that
the personal property may be fully iden
titled.
GEN. II. B. STODDARD.
His Recommendations to Improve
the Efficiency of the Militia.
General H. B. Stoddard in his report to
Adjutant-general King makes the follow
ing recommendations:
1 hat hereafter no held officer be com
missioned as suoh without first having ap
plied to a board oreated for this purpose
within thirty days after his nomination or
eleotion and undergoing an examination
and reoeiving Baid board's certificate ss to
his profioienoy in the sohool of the bat-
talion and that he possesses the other
qualifications necessary to the proper per
lormanceof a held officers duties.
That company commanders acquire a
thorough knowledge of the ceremonies of
guard-mounting posting and instructing
sentinels their duties etc. also a knowl
edge of the proper rendition of honors
the principles of saluting and the practice
of skirmish movements at their drills.
Have United States or volunteer offioers
inspeot eeoh oompany and regiment onoe
a year. Have state encampments held
annually either by regiment brigade or
division at some point remote from a
large oity to be held not less than four
nor more than six days and prohibit vis
ltors and every feature oaloulated to di
vert the attention of the troops from their
proper duties. One day daring said en
oampment might be set aside for the re
view of the troops during which day vis
ltors could be admitted to tne oamp.
Have the state offer special prizes of
nags and similar inducements for pro
fioiency disoipline and knowledge of
various oamp duties and the other duties
of a soldier.
I further reoommend the appointment
or a board of officers to revise the present
militia laws of the state of Texas and
have them provided for the adoption of
such of my recommendations as may be
approved oy you.
I respeotfully submit that if these
recommendations be approved and
adopted Texas will have a volunteer
guard upon whioh its citizens can depend
in cases of emergency; one that will favor-
ably compare with the admirable militia
organizations of New York Pennsylvania
and other northern states. We have fully
as large a percentage of good material
among the young men of our state and all
that is necessary for the creation of a well
organized militia force is proper legisla-
tion for their training and government
and adequate appropriations for carrying
out these objeots."
A Bill to Promote Dr. Wm Martin
From the Times-Democrat.
The house committee on naval affairs
has reported the bill which provides that
the president be authorized to annnint
Dr. Wm. Martin assistant surgeon United
Stntes Navy (not in thelineof promotion)
to the rank of surgeon United StateB navy
(not in the line of promotion).
After setting forth the services rendered
by Doctor Martin who is a New Orleans
man in the yellow fever epidemio of 1874
1878 and 1888 the report goes'
cn to say: The bill under con-
sideration proposes that Dootor Mar-
tin now assistant surgeon (not in the
line of promotion) be promoted to the
rank of surgeon (not in tie of line promo-
tion). By the terms or the act of 1880
appointing him to bis present rank he
oannot be promoted above it in the usual
way. He may serve on till old age retires
bim; he may in the future as in the past
perform extraordinary and most merito-
rious service but his rank and pay must
rnmmn the an. 1
... .a... uuiess ooneresa hn
provide for the merited recognition ntTl.
skill and devotion ky authorizing his pro- j
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THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO. Baltimore at J.
motion to a position expressly oreated
for him. ...: tt.niw
This is the object 01 iu u
. :.f nf n additional 8UT-
izes tne appoiuviuou- . -
Leon in the navy (not in the line of pro-
motion and authorizes the president to
appoint Dootor Martin to that place n
interferes with nobody excites no jeal-
ousies does not get in the way of any
one else's promotion and is but the
merited reward due to a ba.u.ui "y""0"
and humane offioer for servioes whioh if
rendered to a foreign government would
have earned for him the Cross of the
Legion the Garter or the Iron Eagle;
servioes suoh as render him who has per-
formed them wortuy oi promotion ue
who earns his higher rank on tho field of
battle." . . .
Doctor Martin is a son ui
Martin the well-known and popular shba"
merchant or this oity whose many friends
will be pleased to learn of the merited
distinction conferred upon his son. Els
Statesman.
Bittor-Sweet.
The follow beautiful lines were
written
by Miss Pearl naroy oi
San . Maroos.
hnm manv will remember with pleasure
having met lost year while she was in Aus
tin finishing ner education at mo
sity. The poem is clipped irom ine uays
County limes oi tna ioio huu uum u
beautifnl author infinite oredit:
The light that never was on land or sea
bh jll euine no mure for jou or me.
Love came so swift-'twa? bitter -eweet
AU! why etiould fate have hud us meet?
Hlnoe meeting brought such pain such strife.
It left its impress on our life.
That eliailow never yet has lifted
Thougii long sad days by us have drifted.
Each bright eprlnjrday waUos that old pain.
And makes It thrill my heart again.
Ah ! friend do yon remember yet
That bright June day when first we met!
Yon stood before me with glad young eyes
As bine as clear aa the enuimer skies.
That sunny dav In youth ' bright morn!
We saw the day of paeelon dawn !
We felt the stirring of passion's beam.
And learned the sweetness "Love's
dream."
youBjr.
Av passion dawned bnt hope waa fleeting
'Twore better we had had no meeting!
KLINE THE CORRESPONDENT.
His Arrival from the Samoan Islands.
Hie Adventures With the Germans.
Sam Fbanoisoo February 16. The
steamship Mariposa from Australia and-
the Samoan islands arrived here this-
morning. Among the passengers is
John C. Kline American newspaper cor
respondent who has figured in these dis-
patches as having lead the natives in the
recent battle with the Germans on the
island but olaims to have witnessed the'
fight as a non-combatant in his oapaoity
as correspondent. When martial law
was deolared on the islands by the Ger-
mans an attempt was made by
the latter to seize Kiline but he
was resoued by Amerioans and took
passage on the ocean steamer Mariposa
for thiB city. When the Mariposa left the
Samoan islands were still under martial
law and German aggression had beoome
very marked and it is claimed to have
been direoted against Americans as well see-
the natives. The Mariposa left the
Samoan islands on February 12. On that
date none of the American men-of-war
ordered to the islands had arrived and the
Germans under operation of martial law
were in complete control of the islands
and had commenced searching all vessels
in Samoan waters but after seizing an
English tourist named Gilliam on the
steamer Richmond from Auokiand' Cap-
tain Head of the English warship Royai
George ordered the man released and
started to prepare for aotion. The Ger-
mans released Gilliam on this demand-
Goods whioh arrived on the Riohmond for
American merohants at Apia the Germans
would not permit to be landed unless they
were taken to a German storehouse and
passed upon by German offioers.
The Samoan Times was suppressed on
January 18 for stating that but for Ger-
man support all of the Samoans would
join Mataafa and that unless Bis-
marck was deceived he would not attempt
to enforce his unpopular rule on the
country. Prior to this Mr. Cusaoks the
editor was fined $100 for reprinting
oertain American newspaper comments on-
the Samoan situation. I
Captain Fritz the German naval com-
mander on Janury 23 issued an order in-
structing all residents of Apia to turn
over all guns and ammunition held by
them and proclaimed the right of search.
Captain Mullane of the Amerioan man-of-war
Nipsio protested against this aotion.
stating that the Amerioan government
had never reoognized Taroasese and that
no power would allow them to seize arms
unless used against a friendly nation
ihe German troops aoting as police in
apio attempted to arrest Kline but by
advice of the United States oonsul he
went aboard the Nipsio. On January 28-
Captain Fritz made a demand on Captain
Mullane to release Kline that he might be
r?nl m ea erman militar' tbunal.
Captain Mullane replied that he proposed
J V?-" America" ""zoos in Samoa
and that Kline would not be surrendered
nnMr'aVnd 0n Febr"y 1 he placed him
on the Mariposa.
Base Ball.
Mr. Joe Barbisch and others who have
been rnstlhg to get up a team for Austin
wis season are about to have their efforts
crowned with success. Indeed they have
o far sucoeeded as to make
a very liberal offer for a manager and
team and they now await a reply to their
communication. They have written to
in' .8vlve8ter of St. Louis mak-
n .!m B Proposition which
" all probability will be
accepted Sylvester is'a crack player
?k kw6 Beas"n managed the Lincoln
(Neb 1 team. He has played with the St
iouis Browns Cincinnati clubs and has a
.uula reoord- Altogether the outlook
very cheMing g8m9 heM 10 Au8tin
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