The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1891 Page: 2 of 8
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AprUl Correspondent to Uie'HrronTtn
Austin TkX Mar. 13 i8or Tlie
war over the Commission bill still rages.
The senate has simply played havoc
with the Terrell substitute bill paised
by the house. l"he amendment by
ri senate on (he elective and appoin-
tive feature of the bill while in fact
ot. the most important has caused
wore commotion than any qther amend
hWM to the bill which has been passed
by the senate In fact when it became
known that the senate had substituted
the elective lot the appointive feature
J--ovcr which such a fijjht had been made
m the house it created a mild sensa-
tion. The reason for this is the fact
that Governor Hogg had asked for
that clause and said he would veto any
Commission bill which refused to allow
the governor to appoint the cpmmis-
Mooer. The bill was changed from appoint
ive to clectiveby the senate by a votr
of r6 to ti. There wis a very acri.
monious debate over this clause in
dulged in by nearly the entire senate.
"Thfcre Were criminations and recrimi-
nations. The men who were for the
appointive feature charged that a
change had come o'er the spirit of the
-dreams of quite number of senators
fin 'this feature orthe bill lately and
Senator Kimbrough of Dallas intimated
that it was caused by the presence of
the railroad lobby. This raised thejre
-of a number of the grave and rev'er
end senators and Mr. Kimbrough's
cpidemie'was punctured by ridicule
'Sarcasm and invective for a whole
afternoon.
There is itoj doubt but that this
change in the'ltU complicates matters
in a great .degree. Some members of
the house intimate that the house is
very likely to concur in the elective
feature and if It. does Governor Hogg's
frknds say that he will vefq it. If it
does not concur there is serious doubt
of any sort of commission bill being
passed this session. v
The senate is also making other
changes in the Terrell bill some of
them very important in fact more so
Than the elective or appointive feature
and r. Terrell will hardly know his
offspring when it returns from the
.senate.
A great hue and cry has been raised
here over the presence of Judge
Jeorge Clark and some men pretend
thai his presence has exercised a very
ttakful influence over the fortune of
the commission bill. Your corTespon-
oent's observations Jias led him to Re-
lieve that this is in nowise correct
On the contrary he lias lieaid Judge
Clark express sentiments which are en-
tirely foreign to anything like ani-
imosHy towards the commission bill.
He says that the railaoads recognize
ami appreciate the fact that the peo-
ple want a commission and that the
railroads are making no fight against
it AH they ask is a square deal and
a law that will keep them nut of the
.-.-.'jcoarts. Your .correspondent seam
him use the following language to Col.
W A. Shaw editor of Texas Farmcn
You may sav td the farmer and peo-
ple of Texas;1 said Judge Clark "that
if they will take Hold of this matter
and prepare a commission law so help
ne God the railroads of Texas will lay
themselves at their feet and gladly
abide by such a law; but the railroads
are unalterably opposed to the dema-
gogues of the state riding into office
by specious argument and false state-
ments calculated to excite the preju-
dices of the people against tne rail-
roads. The railroads are not endeav-
oring to thwart the will of the people
in the matter of railroad legislation
but are endeavouring to down the dem-
agogues for the good of the state and
the people and will continue to fight
them from Alpha to ' Omaha" and
from Cape Cod to Kalamazoo. When
the railroads and the people get rid of
the professional jawsmtths the torn
tom baiters and hewgng sounders
they will get nearer together and will
appreciate each other more than they
do at present The railroads of the
tate have witnessed the feast of the
demagogues upon the carcass of one
raoad and do not care so 'share a
smsiilar fate"
The house committee on education
Ituu been considering the Page text
book bill for some time and have lit-
erally butchered it with amendments.
la fact so many amendments have
been inserted into it and it is so badly
dteSgured that Col. Baker of Tom
Gfawi county offered an amendment
&iJtsU read as follows; "Provided
that if senator Page can recognize any-
ttiustf uv the bill jut amended at all
9mmrte tits origipal bill that the
tale board of education shall disre-
gard it as law"
Tae election of General John M.
Palmer as United States senator from
lUutowjiaa catt&ed great rejoicing here
among iwwwwcr or iac legislature anu
all clatMC of ckiMM.. and many mem-
bars openly eijHremd their preference
-far Gut PlfHc for president
t Tbc Jktpfoi toqa cl&lAw ;prcpar:ng
1 toaivec HKmbers of tlie legislature
mr .... .gaBTTniff".....!
amlfMar. of WtM ;iEol ucp-
tki at tta tant wb root; It
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jprotntkn W b cod H rkthif of
fhe kiwi tvet given to the state. Hie
cky Has setit Mr. Ikrnard Cprnftan
the dalA contractor to Kansas City to
investigate the rolling mill plant which
its owhers desire to locate fn Texas
and if his report is gOod $5otooo will
be raised immediately and the plant
removed to Austin It will prove of
great value to the city for it will 4he
followed by many other manufacturing
concerns which will bring men and
money to Austin.
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C. F. Rudolph is out with No. 1 of
the Register published at Channing
Hartley county The Register has a
liberal advertising patronage lo start
with and has the best wishes of the
RErdRTER for Its success.
Some of the papers that come to
this office are &o badly printed that it is
impossible to read them others are
so blurred and blotched that it is pain-
ful to read them though possible'. The
Reporter does not believe that a cyl-
inder press Is absolutely necessary to
get a good print because we used the
old baud press for years back in the
old states and always got out a cleanly
printed paper The trouble is with the
printers themselves.
The Lampasas Leader is a very
nicely printed paper and deserves
much better patronage than it is get
tirig.
That new dress and new head donn-
ed by the Gazette gives it the air of a
down east daily sure enough. The
Gazette has always been a newsy enter-
prising paper but never until now has
she worn a genuine metropolitan dress.
The "make-up" is better too tn fact
the whole appearance of the paper is
much improved and the Reporter
hastens to congratulate the whole man-
agement and Editor Malbne especially.
The. National Reformer is fighting
the whiskey trafic with the zeal pecu-
liar to its editor C CulmOre.
The Texas Republican a new paper
devoted to the interest of Texas and
published at Fort Worth has been re-
ceived at this office. It is published
by Chamberland & Co. and will do
good work in the immigration field.
Will Adair is publishing a bright little
daily at Marshal.
The Gordon Courier has changed
hands andhas been enlarged.
Press Comments.
A railroad to the northwest to con-
nect with the M. K..&T. at Henrietta
will prove a great benefit to Abilene.
Abilene Reporter
Albany and Abilene are both large-
ly interested 'and ought to pull togeth-
er. It is hardly probably that one can
secure the road without the y co-operation
of the other. News.
Baird Brownwood Comanche and
Abilene are taking steps towards coun-
ty fairs this year and the Round-Up
would like to see Cisco step out in
that direction too and be quick about
it Cisco Round-Up. ?
Shackelford people contemplate or-
ganizing a F?ir Association. This
should be attended to at once so that
the farmers can begin to prepare for
lt-iiNcws.
The McCall matter was under con-.
jdderatiou this week and was "disposed
qt Mri McCall was completely exon
erated from any intention to do even
a technical wrong and those who ex
peeled to see this gentleman humili-
ated were disapointed. Austin Cor.
Abilene Reporter
The tribunal from which there is no
appeal has his case under considera-.
tion. It has' the reports of two com-
mittees of honest sifters of facts in the
case. It also understands the motives
that actuate aspiring politicians. in the
legislature when they rise up to white-
wash the usurpations of a public offi-
cial whose course is condemned by
those best acquainted with it; and in
the summer of 1802 the democratic
party of Texas w.ill remind men who
think themselves creater than their
masters that they are not to be trusted
any longer with official responsibility
Dublin Telephone
The esteemed Abilene Reporter
will understand us. We do not pro-
pose to drive the so-called democracy
of Tammany Hall into the republican'
ranks or deny them fellowship with
good and true democrats. It is Tam-
many as a corrupt and corrupting po-
litical organization that we would elim-
nate from the great budy of the dem-
ocratic party. The Reporter well
knows that for years Tammany has
not pnly maintained a controlling in-
fluence in the democratic party of
New York but by reason of that has
also at times been able in a great
measure to dictate the policy of the
national democracy with reference to
men and measures In other words
it has been deemed necessary to Con-
sult the pleasure of Tammany in nom-
inating candidate for president and
vice-president or forming platforms
lest its influence should be exercised
to defeat the party in the elections.
This character .of bossism has already
been too long tolerated and has result-
ed in great corruptions in politics.
Indeed the political contests in New
Yofk liaye come to be little more than
A scrarnble for spoils' and no prgariiza-
lini.JlL-.JKS
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tioa wistful Umtdv .hHWly imk& Hi ttr fotttn tip.
bk.xlhkuTmMMf. $h Afls
tot Hi potritioit hi rtml defeat W no.wam
Mmm to CoflHttMe totubwrt to the' mm
button of such an influence. HtKs-
boro Reflector.
TUe iam.
Oat land should have been broken
close and deep last summer and fall
Many good farmers break land for
all kinds or grain so as to catch the
summer fall and winder rains ?-ttd
wisely.
Land intended for corn it is pre-
sumed has; already been broken
though if not it will be well not to de-
lay the matter longer.
Oats may be put in the ground as
late as the 10th or even the 15th of
March with a fair chance for a good
yield. Rut they should .be planted by
the 1st of March.
If in summer and fall the seasons are
good (rood -crops the next year arc rea-
sonably certain If the winter raihs ate
also good but httls rain will be required
in the following spring to insure good
crops.
The winter has been comparatively
open and mild and it has been well to
permit stock to run in the wheat
fields but it is now time to take them
out It will certainly be injurious to
wheat to permit any stock on it after
this
In western Texas the sweet potatoes
ought to be bedded out by this lime.
Either small or large potatoes may be
used and it is doubtful if one is bet-
ter than the other.
There is much diversity of opinion
as to the quantity of oats Iq be sown to
the acre. One of the most successful
farmers in Western Texas says he never
sows less than-two bushels and when
the ground is specially strong he pre
fers three bushels.
The West Texas farmer of all others
in Texas should be a stockman as well
as a farmer. He can get the benefit
forsome time to come of range out-
side of his own enclosed farm land
and there is no good reason why his
stock should not cet the benefit of
the grass that grows on this outside
land. '
After corn has been brought to a
stand the purpose of further Cultiva-
tion will be to keep the top soil clean
of weeds and grass and loose. And
the ground should be gone over with a
light cultivator every week or ten. days
or as often as may be necessary until
the crop H ready to lay by.
Every famer should raise an abun-
dance of forage. In tact it is not cer-
tain that any person can aflord to own
or controll more live stock than he is
able and willing to feed liberally. And
it is really an easy matter in any part
of Texas to grow on a few. acres' of
ground an abundance of either sor-
ghum or millet.
Diversity of crops is a partial security
against failure. No farmer should rely
on a single crop. as there will be too
many chances against him from
'drouth inferior seed short growing
seasons and excessively wet weather.
Some crops will thrive when others fail.
The safest mode is. to grow several
kinds.
Corn land should be double-disced
and then furrowed deep with two-horse
plows beginning in west arid nort-west
Texas by the toth of March. Then
follow with the planter and cultivate
as near on a level as possible. In the
higher-plane sections of Texas sub-
ject to drouths most crops dp better
under a level cultivation. Only in
low places where drainage is necessary
should the furrow be raised above the
level.
There is the best of reason why ev-
ery stockman should have a farm in
connection with his ranchy To say
nothing. of the vegetables and friuts
that he can this way grow for family
use. he can and should grow every
year forage stuff to feed to live stock
at least dunng the bad season. A fewJ
acres in sorghum oats millet rye or
other such things will be worth a .reat
qeal to the ranchman and can be cul-
tivated and harvested at small expense.
Livestock Journal.
The farmers of tne Future.
There has been much said and
written about boys leaving the farm
and very little done to prevent it. As
long as presept cpnditions remain the
boys will flock to the rtowns to bear
the burdens and the works that are
impossible to the effeminate sons of
luxury and dissipation of the third and
subsequent generations But for this
iniusion oi iresli vigor mental and
physical from the country a few gen-
erations would sterilize the population
Of cities and they would disappear
from the face of the earth. If we
must have cities and under present
economical conditions they seem to be
a necessity the country must reim
burse them for the waste tliat city life
entails or they become mentally a.nd
physically bankrupt But it is not
necessary to send them our best jtia-
terial. There are many country boys
who lack the vigor of body and mind
necessary to excel as farmers but
who are fully equal to the ordinary re
quirements of city "rehabilitation. There 1
are also sonie who' are equal to al-
jnost anything but tilling the soil who
were not cut out for farmers or were
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?!. rasgtU- be ttMNilattfcd wrth
pfOt to the tow and no kN to the
farms The trouble about this mat
ter 5s thatour very best uoys are. the
first ta leave the farms t6 the ineffi
cient management of plodders; and be
lake themselves to the towns under
the raise impression that the country
is no ptac for them. This idea is
imbibed from their surroundings and
though false it was entailed Upqn litem
inevitably- Ifaboyts brought up in
an atmosphere of drudgery surrounded
by persons and scenes which remind
him of the Adamic curse every hour
of the day can it be expected that he
will remain after a fair opportunity for
escape! Not if he has the tpirit of
manhood reasonably developed for his
age; and for all this the bpy Is not to
be blamed.
There is a way to remedy nil this
and only one way. The farms must
be mode wotthy of the boys; otherwise
they goY'rfnd there h no help for it
This can only be done by agricultural
education and the amelioration that
follows. It must be demonstrated
that a high degree Of attainment and
great executive ability arc as sure of
reward as elsewhere; that even science
may be made subservient and every
acquirement helpful to the farmer as
it is to others. The mind as well as
the body must find both fruitful labor
and pleasing recreation in the daily
operation of the farm. The fact must
be -declared and enforced by "con-
spicuous examples" that the highest
duties and honors of manhood and cit-
izenship are the labor and reward of
intelligent farmers. Then our best
I boys will remain on the farms. Farm
and Ranch. - .
A large art'd complete stock of Dia-
mond Dyes just received by Bass
Bros. o-tf.
8ECBET SOCIETIES.
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Abilene Commandcrj- Tio. ST Ktileht Temp-;
tar. holds Its tatcd CuncUvo In tlieir tutyluui
third floor Porter Uteres building corner
North Second and Pine ttreets on ttiu Mcoiul
Monday nljrtit In each month. Ylnltlag Sir
Kiiighu corolalljr InTltcd to attend.
J. II. lVuuunonc
Era. Commander.
C. W. UoEtRTa Itccorder.
Ablleno Chapter Vo. 159. It. A. M.-IIoM lt
tatcd convocation tbokecond Krldnv night In
each month In their hall third floor Porter nnd
Hceres building corner line and North Second
streets. C. V. UoBKnTu Secretary.
Oto. P. PitiLUr. M. JJ. U. P.
Ablleno todge; No..5M. F. ami A. M--UoldttU
Mated communications the 0m Saturday night
In each month in their ball third floor 1'ortcr
and Uteres building corner Pine and North Sec-
ond ctrecta. w. S. o. Jouxaox Secretary.
C. W. Konrims V Jt
K.'of P.'hail.
1. 0. 0. F Meets every Tuesday night In the
ritcd to atteud.
All
vUltlug brethren cordially In-
J. W.IU-it-wir
tr.u. nuTT . u.
Secretary
Starot thcAVest Lodge. So. 43 K. or P. Meet
every Thursday evening at Its Castle IlalL. Visit-
ing Knights cordially Invited to attend.
E. 1L Sunrcxts C. C.
ItoBT. 8. STCinT. K. of It. and a
CHTTRCE DIKECTOBY.
First Baptist Snnday school fi;30 a. m.; aert
ricet at 11 a. m. and 8:30 p. m.; prayer meeting
very Wednesday night. .
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Methodic South-. Sunday school 9:30 a. m.;
services at 11 a. tn. and B p. in.; prayer meeting
avery Wednesday evening -nt 8 p. tn.
rUuiTox .
'. Pastor.
. Chorcb'of tho Heavenly Rest Service on Snn
layaatlla.m. nnd 7 :3 p. m. excepting on the
fourth Sunday: Wednesday evenings at 8;
Sunday school at 9130 a. tn.
Christian Church Sunday school at 9:30 ft. m. ;
wrViM ovcrr sunaay at it a m.sna a p. m.
prayer meeting
communion serylces lunsficr Sunday fchool on
first and second Sundays and J tut after preach-
Infr on third aod fourth Sundays.
CVJUnts
Pastor.
Cnmticrland Presbyterian Church SerYlces
sung neuncsuny nigni(i o
P-.m.;
BTery Sunday tnonllne ana ereniuc. Bunaay
scnopi ai:w a.
; prayer-meeting Thursday
evening. :icv. i) c tem patior.
First PrCTbytcrian Sunday school 0:15 a. m.J
services at 11 a:tnandttilBhtf.jToyer meetlnit
every Wednesday night Itev. C. 1C Dudley X.
J. astor.
COUET DIEECTOKY.
DISTBICT COtJBT.
iJpdKe O. Illll. ... " .
Attorner-S. I. Hardwlcke. '
Clerk . J linL
Meets on ihe third Monday In September;
rOBNTr OOUBT. . ; '
Judge It. A. Porter. ' ' '''
Attorney wT. A. Henry
Meets on the not Monday JdPebrnarj;Aril
f une August October ana uecemocr
. roMXHMONtllS COCRT.
Judge V. I. J1I1U . ''.
Commlslocrs J. T. Tucker Jno. Prattt 11;
C. SI. llradshaw. It. G Loyns. '
Hegular sesslouon the second Monday In Pcp
ruarr Hay AuKUtt and Novcinticr. MeeW aa'a
board o( eiualixallon on the: first Monday In
Juno. ' "
cotranr officers.
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4idrc-D O. Hill. . .
Attorney S IV Hardwlcke.
r'lnt.n J Kwl
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Sheriff J. V. CunnlnRham.
Treasnrer-O. A. W1U.
AKM.or J V Christopher.
Animal Inspector J. T.Korthrlngtpiif
.II J'l . ' I ' I. .1 ' I I .1 I I II'IHI II' l ll'l.. N
orry dikeotobt.
Mayoi-I). W. Wrlsten.
Assewsor W. J. Thompson
Treasurer Ed. 8. Hushes.
Uorney Jno. A. Williams. ;.
Secretary Vf. O. .Swausoit.
Marolial J. J. Clinton.
ALDKUMEN
M. a tamhetli. Ed. H. Hughes.
(leorRct C Harris. K Porter
8. P. Steere. O. Eyans.
HeguUrMectlnj Second and fourth Tuesday
F. . m-. i i .nt .. iii M !.
ALLIANCE NO. 3771.
Presldent-M. M. "Jlrown.
Vleel'rwldenl-J. 1L Woodward.
Secretary ltibt WhluaVer. - .
- Treasurer N. 11. Cooke. ' -1 .
LecliirerIIl.Wii;bh
Asslsunt Lcturr fcVp. peymour. . ...
Chaplain J M UeynnUlsi
noorkeeper J. J. Mathersori. ' '
Assistant Doorkeeper A. H Hodges
. "Tiniea and tilaro of inectlne. - at the court
house the second Baturdaypf each mouth andt
p. pl.V
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