The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, October 18, 1895 Page: 1 of 8
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ABILENE TEXAS FRIDAY MORNING OCTOBER 18 1806:
NO. 45
tmm-m REPORTER.
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WAGONS!
W
e come to the front again with our old reliable
STUDEBAKER and BAIN WAGONS. We
have a full line of Studebaker Buggies Hacks
and Carts For good goods and low prices
we are in the lead.
eorge L. Paxton.
PHVS1CIRN.
W. HOLLIS
PHYSICIAN aad SURGEON
Office over HARRIS URO'S. Dreg Store.
W.SHERBINOM.D.
'' Office ad. iloor south of rarker's lura-
v yard. Chronic Diseases. Diseases of
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komen and Children.
E. HAYNES
Physician and Surgeon
Oflico over Word A Alexander dnift noro.
Will answer calls at night at room over
IVeil's old stand
KENDALL.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
)fiicc up stairs in biick building opposite Hass
llros. Telephone No- 103.
UUBfty STRBLB
E. TAYLOR
Civery and Feed Stable.
BEST HOBOES land BTJOQIE8
la th city;
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LiVHiV STABLE.
AllltKN'K ANSON and HASIvEU mall
aim passenger line.
South First Streot.
LAND nOOIST.
W. WRIGHT.
1 I.nnd und I-lvo Stoolc AfesiU.
Tine Street Over Hushing' stoie.
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-ILENE NATIONAL BANK.
1 w. wiwoon. Pro. OKI) t. npKiiv.CMii
Capital and Surplus $180000.00
Transacts a general Uanklnjj Uusiness.
W. HARKRIDER
SPECIAL AQENI
Jew York Life Ins. Co.
Offlu with AllUa Jfat'l Bank
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tardwi'i OhlHRWare Itovei.
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DRRBBR SHOP.
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P. LINDSEY
SooBorial Hist. . .. . .
Shaving Parlors PINE STREE.
LRWVBRS.
D.
G. HILL
Office Oyer First National Bant
SAYLES & SAYLES
LAWYERS
I'ortcr A itecves HulldltiR
mjikne TEXAS.
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W. DAUGHERTY
Xt Attornsy-ut-l.aw 'A.tt'yv for
Amnrloan Suratv Co.. N. Y.
OFFiriiflTKR illUIK I1TIMIL B1IK.
Will practice In tho state courts In Taylor and
coiimle. In civil ami criminal court jf appeal
and federal and supremo courts Uf Texas.
Fall Plowing.
One half the labor of growing a good
croj) consists in the proper preparation
of the land A good star; in well pre-
pared soil is better than a' poor start
with tiiotc cultivation. It is said that
the education of a child should begin
fully five generations before its birth
and this same principle should be fob
lowed in the cultivation of crops One
of the best general preventives against
the increase of injurious insects is fall
plowing. Fully nine-tenths of our in-
jurious insects spend at least a part of
their lives upon cr within the ground
and the fall and early winter months
isthc best time to destroy them.. By.
means of fall plowing the grass and
rubbish on the surface which forms a
secreting place for many insects which
pass the winter in the mature contli-
tons are turned under and the
majority of the surface insects is
kjllcd; while by the turning up of a
few inches ol soil mony species which
exist as pupa: at this season are ex.
posed to ths changing condttlous of
the weather and many are. destroyed
by I) rids.
It willmot always pay to plow in
the fall however as most of the
Jand in the south washes badly in case
of heavy tains Good judgment will
have to be used so as to prevent this
but by making the furrows around the
hillsides the washing edit generally be
prevented. Southern Cultivator.
WAGONS!
AGAINST BLACKS.
Declaration by tbe Louisiana Plan-
ters' Party
Regular Republicans Repudiated and
Denounced.
New Orleans. La.. Oct. 9 (Spl.)
The sugar planters who went over
from the Democracy last year and or-
ganized the Notional Republican party
held a regular meeting yesterday and
repudiated the regular republicans.
The regular republicans had offered
the planters representation on their
committee and had pretty well de-
cided to nominate a sugar planter for
governor ex-Senator Henry McCall
being the favorite.
The regular republicans were repu-
diated in the. most emphatic manner
and declared that they (the planters)
were republicans of national issues
only for president and congress and
would have nothing to do with the
regular republican party organization
on state or local affairs.
The tegular republicans presented
an offer to the planters to let them
nominate the candidates and manage
the campaign if they would oppose
the suffrage amendment which pre
scribes an educational qualification
and would disfranchise ninethenths of
the negro voters. This offer was
promptly tabled and in its stead reso-
lutions were adopted denouncing the
rtgulars as the most cbrrupt element
in the state. They declared jn favor
ol the suffrage amendment; disfranchis-
ing the negroes and in. favor of all
political matters being left solely and
exclusively to the white vote.
The planters practically declare their
purpose to be the organization of a
distinctly white man's party.
Ladies Buy
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ADDRESS TO THE ?0?I.
To Fromo.to Immigration to Toans.
Col S. H. Pope secretary of. the
Texas Immigration and Industrial as-
sociation has just issued the following
address for publication in the state
press: .
'Texas'has still an unappropriated do
main almost as large as the state of
Massachusetts. The lands belonging
to the school university and asylum
fnnds are greater in area than all of
New' England and New Jersey Dela-
ware and Maryland. The unapprb-.
priated domain can be pre-empted by
heads of families not exceeding 160
acres and by single persons over 21
years of age 80 acres by proper appli
cation to the rightful authority survey-
nig and a continuous residence of 'three
yearsj .filing satisfactory proof of the
same and paying patent fees the
charges for which are nominal.
. The school university and asylum
lands are classed into pasture agricul-
tural and timber. Lands without per-
manent water can be purchased at $2
per acre and with permanent water
at $3 per acre and timbered land at
$5 per acre. Pasture and agricultural
lands are sold on forty years' time one-
fortieth cash the balance drawing 5
per cent interest per annum payable
annually and after three years' resi
denee on same the whole of the de-
ferred payments may be taken up or
the land sold by the original purchaser
the succeeding vendee assuming the
outstanding obligations. Timbered
lands are sold only for cash.
In this connection it would not be
out of place to give a synopsis of the
Texas homestead law. No law has
ever been so well abused and yet it is
the bulwark of. the home and many
think no encomiums too high can be
passed upon it.
To every head of a family a home-
stead all household and kitchen furni-
ture family books and pictures tools
implements of husbandry five cows
and their calves two yoke of oxen
two horses one wagon one carriage
twenty hogs twenty sheep all chains
bridles saddles; harness and forage for
use and provisions for family consump-
tion shall be exempt from forced sale.
A homestead is not subject to debt and
is thus defined: In town or city a
designated lot or lots not to exceed a
value of $5000 at the time without
reference to the value of the improve-
ments thereon. In the country not to
exceed 200 acres of land regardless of
the value of improvements thereon.
By reason of this law there are no
mortgaged homes in Texas and many
a helpless widow and dependent family
today have a shelter that would other-
wise be upon the cold charities of the
world.
Having mentioned in general tems
the large endowment of lands to free
schools we will enter more particularly
into the discussion of the system and
particular endowments. Under this
general topic are included the common
school system the normal Schools the
agricultural and mechanical college
and the university of Texas
The state endowment to the com-
mon schools in its present form con-
sists of $7500000 interest bearing
bonds more than $14000000 interest-
bearing land notes and about 230000.
060 acres of unsold lands. Of these
lands 20000000 acres are leased at
-4 cents per acre-and the income thus
derived added to the annual available
school fund. Besides the state endow-
ment a grant of four leagues of land
has been made to each county for
school purposes. The board of county
commissioners has exclusive and ab-
solute control of these lands They
are sold or leased as the demand and
good judgment of the board may de-
cide If sold the proceeds constitute
the county permanent school fund and
the interest derived from investments
made is annually applied to the support
of the schools It leased the rentaHs
applied in the sune munner. The
omount of land thus granted to the
several counties approximates 6000c
opo acres and a reservation has been
made front tKk public domain for the
unorganized counties '
The permanent' school fund in 1892
93 as reported by the confmissloner of
history and statistics was $93454.-
869. Tin's is the" last published re-
port'. A conservative estimate will
place the amount in 1900 at $ioo-
000000. The increase in this fund
will more than keep pace with the
growth in population and development
of the state.
In addition to the interest on bonds
and land notes and rental from leases
the state levies an annual ad valorem
school tax of it mills devotes one-
fourth of the occupation taxes and an
annual poll tax of $ito the available
school fund. To this is added 1 per-''
cent of the permanent school fuud.
Recognizing the necessity and de-
mand for home-trained teachers both
white and colored the normal schools
were established and endowed. Sam
Houston normal institute was named
in honor of the hero of Texas inde
pendence. It is strictly a professional
school with the single aim to so train
young men and young women so as to
make competent and efficient teachers
for the public schools of the state.
Prairie .View state normal school
while under the supervision of the
board of directors of agricultural and
mechanical college is in the charge of
colored teachers who have thus far
governed the school .with credit to
themselves and . satisfaction to the
board.
The agricultural and mechanical col-
lege was established under an act of
congress which defines the objects of
such colleges. But under that act
there have been founded as many
schools differing in kind as there are
states. For years this school failed to
meet the expectations of its founders
but under the able management of ex-
Gov. Ross for the past four years a
wonderful change-has been wrought in
this institution and it is rapidly being
brought u to a high standard of ex-
cellence and will be prolific of great
good in the cause of state education.
The university of Texas owes its
existence to the wisdom foresight and
statesmanship of the fathers of the
republic who made the most ample
provisions for its establishment and
maintenance in the legislation of that
period. The constitution of 1846 rq-
appropriated all grants of lands made
by the third congress of the republic
and the state legislature of 1858 ex
cept the one-tenth section and in lieu
thereof set apart 1000000 acres of
the public domain as an endowment
of the University. It is governed by
a board of regents composed of citi
zens residents of different sections uf
the state who are appointed by the
governor by and with the the consent
of the senate. In addition to the
above grants the legislature of 1883
added 1000000 acres of the public
debt land to the permanent university
fund. Of these several land grants
there still remain unsold more than
2000 000 acres. It has an annual
available fund approximating $60000.
Many think that the state has been
parsimonious in its dealings with this
institution and demand more liberal
legislation in the future.
With this princely dower of $ioo
000000 the free school system in all
Us co otdinate branches common
schools agricultural and mechanical
college and university should be so
fostered as to develop into a well
Tounded and complete educational
system that would challenge? the"adr
miration of the world
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Crops in Txas.
S Louis Republic.
Notwithstanding the cotton shortage
in texas this has been a great crop
year for that state. Even in cotton the
yield will be light only in comparison
with her own crops. No other state
ever produced as much an Texas iwill
this year. Last season was a record
breaker for all the leading cotton states
but the combined cotton production
of the three ranking next to Texas-
Georgia Mississippi and Alabama in
the order here given was only 3.500-
000 bales as compared with over
3 300000 raised In the Lone star State
Last year TVxs' cotton crop exceeJU
ed most estimates made in the summer
by about 760.000 bales The present
crop has also probably been under-
festimated That is the opinion of Brad-
street's cotton correspondent at Dallas.
If the crop is to be as light as predicted
by some it will be very strange hb
says" that so many new cotton gins
compresses and oil mils are beirig
pushed to completion. "The fact is that
Texas' cotton crops will surprize many
if it does not exceed 20000000 bales.'
That would give Her about 700060
bales more than were ever grown by
any other state.
The same correspondant places Tex
as' corn crop at 100000000. bushels
or about 30.000000 more than she
produced last season. Only two states'
in the Union Illnois and Missouri
raised more corn in 1894 than
Texas has this season. Fully half the
crop will be marketed
Wheat and oats in Texas have done
fairly well and hay much better than
usual It is expected that the crop
will bring $5000 000 or nearly $400-
000 more than last year's. Texas has-
also increased her sugar production. It
has been a good year for melons and
fruit and vege a'lles of all kinds and
likewise for the nuts which are on im-
portant staple.
Taken as a whole the crops of Texas
have been above the average this year.
The only notable shortage is that of cot-
ton and the indications are that with
the advance in prices tne crop will net
the planters more than last year's.
Corn is lower in consequence of the
immense crop through the corn belt of
the Mississippi valley. If the price
continues to decline. Texas can utilize
her surplus corn in fattening hogs anrL
cattle. She has an unusually big hog
crop this year and has also increased
her supply of caUIe. The price of cat-
tel has advanced" making. the stock rais-
ing business much more profitable than
it has been heretofore in several years.
The farmers of Texas have good rea-
son to be satisfied with their crops this
season.
HE WAS TOO SMART.
The experience of a Countryman With
London Confidence Men.
London has its confidence men who
are Quite as exoert as America's sivss .
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writer in the Boston Herald Their ..
methods are very similar. It is not
wortji while to record their routine oper-
ations but one recent instance as illus-
trative of their resources is amusing
and instructive. An old Scotch travel-
ing man who bore somewhat the ap-
pearance of a countryman but who
knew the ropes perfectly was accosted
He decided to have some fun at the ex-
pence of the would-be swindlers so he
pretended to fall readily in with their
statements to be a particular easy
victim. They bought him a splendid
dinner calling him Mr. Kenny of Dun-
dee a name which they had caught
from a traveling bag which he had bor-.
rowed.from.a friend. He enjoyed their
hospitality hugely and ale prodigiously .
and expensively. They paid the bill
and began the usual talk about a lot-
tery prize etc. Then he saw it was
about time to "cap their game." Said
he7
Gentelmen. I thank you for the din-
ner. It was very good and I have
had a very pleasant time with you. But
I won't go to see you draw your lottery
prize- Oh no! know all about the
lottery prize. Wy name Ts not Donald""
Kenny. It is Robert Ferguson and
I'm not from Dundee but from vLoch-
noyen where I've lived with my
daughter for 20 years. I am too old a
fish to be caught. Good night.
And he went his way rejoicing.
Two weeks later when he went home
to hts dadghter in Lochnoven one of
the first things she said to him was;
"Did you get the 20 all right?"
'WhMrao!"
"Why the 20 ypu. telegraphed
for
And it developed that the confidence
men whom he had beaten at their
own garni had an ace up thqir sleeves
which they played after he had left
them
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The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, October 18, 1895, newspaper, October 18, 1895; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth330910/m1/1/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.