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SATURDAY, AUGUST 33, 1890.
1HB KEWfi FAST TRAIN SEBVICE.
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lor Houston at 4 a. m.
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way, leaving Houston at 7.40 a. m., arriv-
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THE NEWb'XBAVEUHO AGENTS.
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Dai lab New,, who are nut horned to aoll-
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tisement. for either of the publication,:
E. P. Boyle. W. D. Carey, Joe Lee Jameaon,
and H. P. Sicjonda.
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Calventon, Tex., May 1. 189a
THE PLATFORM AND THE A. AND
M. COLLEGE.
The house of representatives has passed
the senate bill providing for a further dis-
tribution of money from the sale of the
public lands among the states in the inx
terest of state educational institutions,
such as the Agricultural and Mechanical
college of Texas. TBereis no question that
the president will sign the bill, and of
course it will become a law. There was no
division upon its passage In the house.
The presumption is that the democratic
members generally of both the senate and
house approve the measure and assent to
the principle underlying it. Bui iu the
latest manifesto of doctrine and policy
purporting to embody the united
voice of the democrats of Texas it is de-
clared that "we, the democracy of Texas in
convention assembled, * * * oppose the
collection and distribution by the federal
government of any money in aid of the edu-
cational systems of the several states
or any of them." This implies a
rebuke to a series of democratic leg-
islatures and democratic administra-
tions of Texas which have accepted
with complacent punctuality $15,000 per
annum from the federal government in the
way of endowment for the agricultural and
mechanical branch of the State university —
two institutions constituting the most
eminent features of tho stato's educational
system. It implies an equal rebuke to Texas
representatives in congress—all democrats—
who failed to oppose tho bill recently passed
granting additional aid in this sort to the
educational systems of the several states.
It implies that the next democratic legisla-
ture of Texas shall by formal act command
the rejection of the new bounty and forbid
the continued acceptance of tho old endow-
ment. It is tedious indeed to trace the exs
tent of implications in tho platform clauso
above cited. By virtue of this clause and
the accompanying more general clause that
"ne, the democracy of Texas, * * * op-
pose paternalism iu all forms," Mr. Hogg,
having approved the whole platform and
engaged to stand by all its pledgee and
mandates, will be logically committed as
governor not only to set his face against ad
ditional or continued federal aid to the
Agricultural and Mechanical college as
a branch of tho State university and an
appendage of the Btate's educational sys-
tem, but also against the institution itself
as one conspicuously stamped with features
of both stato and federal paternalism. At
present it is supported by the state govern-
ment and federal government iu nearly
equal contributions. But let us suppose
that the San Antonio convention iu de-
nouncing federal aid to education iu tho
several states, and paternalism in all forms,
proposed that the denunciation should ap-
ply to Texas educational institutions bo
further than to require that the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college shall
cease to be a joint concern and shall heres
after be maintained exclusively its a state
institution independently of any aid or
contribution from the federal government
in any guise or form. If such is the case
and if such is to be the consequent policy,
then the friends of the college are to be con
gratulited on a great improvement In its
prospects. The contribution of money to
the college from the federal government has
been demoralizing. It is regarded as a
windfall, divided up to increaso tho salaries
of professors and employes, and is suspected
to be at the bottom of the recent trouble in
the management of the college. If the col-
lege is useful in the state's educational sys-
tem the state can well alford to maintain
It. exclusively and liberally. That it is
of great use and promise and grow-
ing in favor with all classes is quite
well known. It is true that the col-
lege as a special and gratuitous school of
technical training, supported largely out of
the general revenue of the state, would,
under strict adherence to the San Antonio
letter of rrstructicn to the legislature and
the governor to be elected this fall have to
be wound u p together with the land corpora-
tions. But platform and platitude and in-
consequentiality are often synouymous
terms. There is no state institution dearer
to the heart of the alliance people of Texas
whose sentiments were studiously consulted
by tho framers of the San Antonio platform
than this college. These people oppose
paternalism in general, but embi-ace it in
particulars. If they will have the college it
Is best that they and their agents shall have
the sole care of it and this, as well as Its
success and development, requires liberal
and exclusive state maintenance.
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TllE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSO-
CIATION.
The following letter has been sent to this
association at its annual session:
Executive Ofuce. Austin, Tex., Aug. 19.—
To the Hen President and >feml>erB of tho
American Forestry Association, in session at
Quebec. Canada—Gentlemen It affords tne
pleasure as president of tne Texas Arbor Day
aod Forestry association to oxtend to you a
w.rrn and earnest invitation to hold the next
session of your association in Texas, at each
place within her borders as you may see fit to
select, snre of a hearty welcome and cordial
greeting from our citizens, who feel the deep-
est interest in yoar work and solicitude for It.
aureus. I am very truly yoars.
L. 9. Koss, Governor of Texa®.
W. tJoounim Secretary Texas Arbor
Day aad Forestry Association.
The forestry acientlst. will meet this Tear
by Invitation of the provincial government
•t Quebec on September 3 and remaio in
session till September 5. The secretary
of the Texas Arbor Day and Forestry asso-
ciation, who is one of the vice>presidenu
of the American Forestry association, was
appointed a delegate for Texas, but THE
News learns that his attendance at Quebec
will be Impossible. This being thecaae the
honorable secretary is the more solicitous
that the members of the general rssociation
should feel that the invitation sent is no
mere mat ter of form but that s hearty wel-
come await, them in any Texas city, which
they may honor with their preeenco next
PARTIES AND TE%TS OF FEALTY.
There has been much needless discussion
as to what sort of party expression consti-
tutes a test of party fealty. Among a free,
self-governing people there can be no such
thing as fealty to any voluntary association
of co-equal citizens imbued with a common
political persuasion and pursuing a com-
mon political purpose. Among such a peo-
ple such is. and such only can be, a political
party. Fealty Implies the relation between
inferior and superior, the obligation of vas-
sal to lord, the swo»n devotion of subject to
sovereign. The free, self-governing citizen
as a member of a given party can one the par-
tynothing, and the partyasa body of citizens
united for a common political purpose
which they bellove to be in the interest of
the public welfare can ow« him individu-
ally nothing. The whole idea Miat a party
may exact conformity to objectionable tests
of certain members and that it may be laid
under obligations to reward certain other
members, is one calculated only to hold
together for the gainful exploitation of
politics a miscellaneous body of slaves and
mercenaries and tyrants. At the same timo
tho expression of a party at some political
juncture concerning soma question of pub-
lic policy may properly operate as a test
under which every member wfco dissents and
persists in dissenting from that expression
must thereby and to that exteut renounce
ndliation with the party. This undoubt-
edly is the logical attitude of irreconcilable
democratic dissentlonts with respect to the
commission plank In the San Antonio plat-
form. Tho convention had the choice of
two propositions, that of the platform com-
mittee declaring unconditionally for a rail-
road commission and for the support of the
constitutional amendment relating to rail,
roads, and that of Dr. Yandell of El P«go,
Ignoring the subject of a commission, and
doclaringthe amendmont to be in no sense
a party question, and a vote for or against
it to be no test of party fealty. The vote
upon the issue so presented was 701 for the
committee's proposition to 159 for Dr. Yan-
dell's. The rejection of Yandell's substi-
tute was a rejection of the declaration that
a vole for or against the amendment was
no test of party fealty, aud is equivalent to
an affirmation that a vote against the
amendment will pro tanto count the demo-
cratic voter out of the party that spoke in
the adoption of the San Antonio platform.
This appears to be the construction which
Judge Robertson, Mr. Horaco Chilton and
other leaders have adopted. So Ju<lgeCook,
Judge Clark, Colonel Shepard, Mr. Barry
and other democrats who oppose tho tncas-
uro in question, unless they recant and con-
form, may consider themselves construed*.
out as "creatures of the cor, orations" by the
uowly fledged and newly baptized demo-
crats in whose company the reformed de-
mocracy make shift to capture the offices.
The vote for the substitute—-150—represent-
ed at least 43,000 democratic voters. -This
is a large number of corporation creatures.
It is a goodly lot of sound democrats pro-
nounced unsound for their soundness by the
representatives of 50,000 to 75,000 independ-
ents and non-partisaus who have yet to
vote the democratic ticket unscratched. If
in a convention largely solected through
secret procedures, by which the real senti-
ment of many thousaud true democrats
was suppressed, there was yet found on the
floor 150 outspoken representatives of 45,000
old time democratic voters, Judge Clark
and others who aro ruled, or must rule
themselves, out of the now or transformed
party may reasonably expect to have an
uncommonly large and respectable com-
pany In their retirement, and but for the ap
prehension of temporary injury to the state
might contemplate their exemption from
all responsibility for consequences with
serene satisfaction. Judge Robertson has
intimated that the democrats who oppose
the now programme are consorting with
the republicans. As to that matter an in-
cident may illustrate better than assump-
tion what faction of the mora or less
disintegrating democratic . organization
tends most [naturally to gravitate to
republicanism. The first great meeting to
ratify tho action of the San Antonio con-
vention and welcome back Its nominees
was at Austin when a shouting crowd of
four or five thousand surrounded the plat-
form upon which Mr. Hogg and other can-
didates were seated. The presiding officer
of the meeting was a republican, who is a
delegate to the republican state convention,
and he introduced Chairman Webb Finley
to tho audience as Hoc. Webb Flanagan.
The chairman blundered, but the incidont
is suggestive of the natural affinity between
ail politicians seeking office and of the kind
of family pride which tiiey take in each
other's success. It is not known that the
Cook and Clark element ever called in a
republican to preside over their meetiugs.
in New York city, but so far without ap-
parent success, for even now they are agi-
tating an amendment to the state constitu-
tion to separate municipal from all other
elections in order to free them from the in-
fluence of party politics and make the
tablishment of non-pai tlsan administration
for tW> city possible.
SENATOR TELLER'S AMENDMENT.
Tho new silver ac* has gone into opera-
tion and Senator Teller has submitted a
measure supplemental thereto. He takes
up the bill for discontinuing the J1 gold
pieces and 3-cent nickels and amends it to
eliminate from the new silver law the dis-
cretionary clause as to the amount of silver
bullion the secretary shall puicbase each
month, so as to make it obligatory upon
him to purchase 4,500,000 ounces monthly,
and the Teller amendment also requires that
he shall continue *o coin not les3 than 2,000,-
000 of the silver bullion under the new b11
ver act into standard silver dollars after the
1st of July next, when, under the new law,
the 2.000,000 monthly coinage would cease.
Jn addition to those alterations proposed to
be made in the new silver law, the Teller
amendment adds a free coinage proposi-
tion, as follows:
That whenever the market price of silver is
$1 for S71.26 grains of puro silver. It shall be
lawful thereafter for the owner of any silver
bullion to doposlt th*) samu at any coinage
mint of the United States to be formed into
standard silver dollars for his benefit, as ap-
proved in the act of January, 1837. And pur-
chases of silver bullion shall oease after the
free coinage of silver provided for iu this sec-
tion shall have commenced.
Tho senator comes in with this the day
after the fair, as the old saying runs. A
presidential veto may block further change
should tho silvermon push tho Teller plan
to the verge of success. Their aim is said
to be to pass this bill at the winter session.
THE STATE PRESS.
L09T or stolen: A very healthy commit-
tee on charter amendments.
year. The News
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factory manner
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A RICH CiTY.
The llnanco committee of the board of
aldermen of tho city of New York has pre<-
pared a report on the assessment of that
county for the present year which will bo
submitted September 2. It sets forth that
the assessed valuation of New York county
is In round numbers $1,606,078,390, and the
aggregate of the appropriations included in
tho budget for 1890, allowing for deductions,
is $83,212,034 03. Under the consolidation act
the board of aldermen is directed to pro-
vide for deficiencies that may arise, and re-
commends that $710,807 60 be dded to the
amount to be raised by taxation to guard
against deficiencies. This makes the total
amount of taxes to be Imposed (82,212,034 0 .
The assessed valuations of the personal
property of corporations exempt from tax-
ation by the state is $78,237,585. "The valu-
ations of such personal estate," says the re-
port, "are subject to taxation for city and
county only, and it is therefore necessary to
impose and levy taxes under two tax rates,
one of which shall be the general rate of
tax, and also a special rate to be imposed
and levied upon the personal estate of cor-
porations, joint stock companies and asso-
ciations. The two rates of tax t^hich will
produce the amount of taxes required to be
raised in and for the year 1800 are 1.97 per
centum upon the valuation for state, city
and county, amounting to $1,618,740,803, and
1.600$ per centum on the personal estate of
corporations, etc., which are exempt from
state purposes, amounting, as before stated,
to $78,237,585." On this basis the money
will be raised as follows: $1,618,740,803 at
1.97 per cent, $31,880,193 85; $78,237,585, at
1.0908 per cent., $1,322,841 08; total, $33,212,*
034 93, When the handling of this immense
snin is taken into consideration, and the
small army of men needed to attend to U>«
detail, there is little wonder that there is
such a struggle for political power between
the different factions. "Boss" Tweed baa
been dead for several years, bnt tho lesions
learned from bim have not been forgotten
by the average New York "hcstler." Many
an effort has been made to purify the ballot
O.n'e of the grand results of the passage of
the Galveston appropriation by congress will
lie that the members of the charter amendment
committee will bo able to make up t'uolr minds
to hold a meeting.
After keeping the politicians deeply in-
terested for a wook or two Senator Quay let his
opportunity pass tho other day, remaining as
placid as a turtle when the timo arrived for him
to claim tho senate's attention to his resolution
which was to shelve the federal election bill.
The matter is as well explained, perhaps, as It
can bo by the correspondent's suggestion that
tho republican senators feel the necessity of
avoiding a contest between their two factions
in open senate.
Blaine's republican rivals are now en-
gaged in proving that "reciprocity" is not a
lilaine suggestion; that ne could not patent the
idea, if he sought to do so, because a similar
policy has long since been proposed by others.
Well, yes; "reciprocity" is just what free
traders have been agreed upon all along. It iB
a common politeness and a gracious courtosy
which are quite as proper between civilized na-
tions as they are between individuals. Reci-
procity is based upon tho idea that nations are
friends and not oontlnually at war to swindle
or oppress each other, or to get tho advantage
iu every little horso trade. It assumes that
mankind are sulliciently advanced In the arts
of peaco to live without jiroying upon oach
other; that it is an age of live and let live.
Aside from this idea of common fairness,
American free traders are quite sure that wo
lose more than we gain bocauso of the Chlneso
wall which the republicans have built around
the country. In other words, tbey aro sure
that reciprocity is not only fair toward others,
but that it will prove profitable to us.
It is true that the legislature does not
meet until January, but the charter amend-
ments should be outlined and freely discussed
months beforehand. No Qalveston member of
the legislature should have any excuse for act-
ing on his own judgment. Tho people should
say what they want and then see that they get
it.
After all, ideas probably spring sponta-
neously into the wind and are not pumped up
by hand, as many artists seem to imagine.
A little concert of action just now will
acoomplish wonders.
Viewed from any standpoint, the matter
resolves Itself into tho simple fact that all that
Galveston needs aro good street pavlug and
fresh water.
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Almost anr newspaper mau will publish
willingly the epitaph of the spring poet if said
poet will pen same and bring it in.
Go To work and sink
well. Time is procions.
that fresh water
That charter amendment committoe takes
a long timo to get ready to commence to do
romething,
Love is sometimes thick enough for a
sick couple to tako it with a spoon.
Galveston wants no snap judgment in
the matter of charter amendments. Iler repre-
sentatives in the legislature should have a clear
understanding of the situation, und work to it.
Good streets and sidewalks and an abun-
dant supply of fresh water would put Galveston
far beyond tho reach of would-be rivals.
The people now own the railroads, tele-
graph line?, express lines and the government.
8oine people think it hotter to reverse this order
and have the government own everything,
which would practically include the peop.e
themselves.
Tiieiik is one thing aud a good one, too,
that Galveston does not need. 8he does not
need moro business. She has her hands full
now. but manages to got along with it pretty
well.
According to statements being pub«
lished concerning a county .in Kentucky which
is fifty years old, ha*ne!th«r sohool house nor
church and in which over 500 murders have
been committed and not a single man pun-
ished. it appears that local self-government is
sometimes a failure. At any rate, some people
will be led by this and other extreme instances
to consider whether it would not be wise and
well for the state (the civilized portion of it) to
have some law under which criminals who own
and coiitrol an entire county maybe tried and
punished elsewhere. Local self-government is
sometimes nothing more than a reign of crimi-
nals and a record of defeated justice.
Hoes ton, Dallas, San Antonio and Fort
Worth all combined have not done as much
business during the month am Galveston has.
This is not a blow, but a fact.
Ik traveling east around the world in
oighty days a person g.iins one day, but Father
Time refuses to give him any rebate.
Galveston is strictly at the head of the
procession. She may need more paved streets
and a better supply of fresh water, but she
needs nothing else.
Most of the ptpere in Texas have reduced
perceptibly the quantltyof campaign literature
since the San Antonio convention. The agri-
cultural journals have begun to say a word
about farming and good roads and the country
papeis are sgain finding room for a complete
lint of wedding presents aad receut arrivala in
the infantile worid.
st thing at
it she has t
he onlydi
e matter.
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at tfc<
celty Is I
of 1
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emendous muss )ji Central A me
ars of age. It shows what a
do if he triee*
What the Papers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
The Lnllug Signal says:
Cotton is pouring in at the rate of 50 to
100 bales per day. Corn is being marketed
at 50 cents per bushel. Notwithstanding
the continued severe drouth and consequent
short range, cattle aro still In fine condi-
tion. The oak mast is a complete failure
this year, but so far the pecan crop Is very
promising In the published interviews
with prominent democrats of the state con-
cerning the commission plank in the plat-
form but few heed that a vote for the
amendment should be considered a test of
party fealty. The constitution it3elf was
not so incorporated, then why should an
amendment be?
The Columbus Citizen reports the first
cotton gin mutilation. Many will follow
in the next three months. There seems to
be no way to prevent them.
Iu his annual address to the state alliance
convention at Dallas President Fields said:
The Farmers' alliance is as far from enter-
ing partisan politics in this state to-day as
the Masons, Odd Fellows or any other
order.
The Houston Post remarks:
That the alliance took an active part in
the campaign which resulted iu Mr, Hogg's
nomination is generally conceded, even Dy
alliance men themselves. The official organ
of the order was full of Hogg and a com-
mission. The alliance is in politics as deep
as it can well go, if it be true to its "teach-
ings," as set forth by Dr. Fields; it is and
has been active In politics, if common re-
port and the utterances of l„s official organ
can be credited.
General Henry E. McCulloch, defeated
candidate for the nomination of state
treasurer, takes his place among the super-
annuated cheerfully, and says lu a letter to
the Houston Post:
When I review the fifty-three years of my
citizenship in Texas and cull to mind the
struggles through which she has passed, I
remember with profound gratitude the
grand men who fought her battles and
guided the ship of state with such eminent
success and passed it oyer to the young
democracy In such a prosperous condition,
and may tho great ruler of tho universe so
imbue their hearts with patriotism and
their minds with true statesmanship that
they may direct its affairs as successfully in
the future as it has been in the past.
Tho Beevills Bee is not satisfied wholly
with common schools for that pleasant and
growing town. It wants a college and says:
The need for such an Institution Is now
felt by all and we must have It. Now we
offer a plan, which If systematically, per-
sistently and judiciously carried out will
attain the desired results. It is this: Or-
ganize a stock compapy with n capital stock
of $60,000. Canvass the country thoroughly
soiling at least$25,000of the stock, one-tenth
of the stock payable monthly, then call the
stockholders together, organize and elect a
board of directors and a general agent, the
last of those to receive a salary of not moro
that J1500 and expenses por annum, pay-
able In stocks. The mo-nont it Is .known
that the Beevllle oollego has been chartered
the value of property in Iteeyille will ad-
vance 100 per cent. And home seekers will
flock to Beeville, eager to buy, that they
may secure the great education?! facilities
Beeville will then bo able to offer. And not
only that, but the intellectual, social and
moral advantages which always enters In
and around such an institution will be of an
inestimable value to us and our children.
As regards material progress the Bee says:
Beeville keeps pace with her sister cities
in material prosperity, energy, enterprise
and push. Tho ice factory and electric
lights belong to the list of certainties for
BeeTille. And now the chief of enterprises
headed by the chief of Beevi lie's enterpris-
ing men, namely the waterworks, is to bo
put throngh at once.
The Bee says: ^
Editor Davis of the Goliad Guard, after
over twenty-four years service, wlli vacate
the editorial chair on the 1st of September,
MoMaster, foreman of the office, will as-
sume charge. Mac is a young man of no
mean ability and will Infuse new life into
tne Guard.
The Bee thinks:
Tho commission plank in the platform is
unfair to a large number of democrats who
do not believe in the regulation of railroads.
Tho commission people should have been
satisfied with the nomination of Hogg for
governor. Making a test of a man's de-
mocracy upon such a question is a little too
much. The young democrats of Texas would
have grown gray waiting for recognition.
They didn't wait. They took things in
thsir own hands.
The boys must use their occasion care-
fully, or two years hence they will be "sot
back" to their old places in the ranks.
Texas Sittings says:
A California man has invented an agri-
cultural machine that combines digging,
subsolllng, pulverizing, planting and har-
rowing. If ho will add a oontrlvance to
drive the team, so that the agriculturist can
go to tho nearest village, sit on the post-
office steps and discuss tho purposes and
progress of the Fai mors' alliance, he will
make a fortune.
The Two Republics says;
The Mexican government is enconraging
the people of tbis country to send exhibits
to tuc fair to be held during the first week
in October in San Antonio, Tex., by tho pub-
lication in the Dlario Official of information
relative to the fair. The federal gov-
ernment will not send an exhibit,
but it will furnish a military band
and probably be officially represent-
ed by some prominent officer of
the administration. Several states of
Mexico, it Is believed, will send exhibit*
and private individuals will contribute.
The San An'tonio fair is supposed to havo
an international character and visitors ex-
pect to see the products of Mexico repre-
sented. Heretofore the Moxican exhibit
has been so meager as to really do morj
barm than good. This year It is to be hoped
Mexico will make a better stiow and
receive genuine benefits therefrom,
althongh it is impossible for the won-
derful resources of this country so well
represented as at New Orleans and Paris,
for instance. Still the San Antonio fair is
calculated to do much toward enlarging
commerce between the United States and
Mexico, and it will doubtless contribute to
closer frieodshlp between tho people of the
two countries. The San Antonio fair csn
be made the great market of fine horses and
cattle for Mexico and thousands of Mexi-
cans can be induced to visit it annually It
the management will only persevere.
The Beeville Bee says:
The cotton crop Is practically made, and
will yield one-half to one bile per acre.
The acreage tributary to Beeville this year
Is at least 300 per cent increase over that of
last.
Kockport and Uorpas Christi are delight-
ful places to live in whether they get deep
water or not. The Aransas Pass Beacou
says of that point as a summer resort and
of (he Shell botel:
The botel with the seven accessory bniUl-
tugs covers probably two acres of ground,
and is well shaded by one of the fioett live-
oak groves In all this land. The sleeping
rooms are perfectly delightful, the parlors I
are splendid, snd all things about the place
are first clas* We have not seen a better
arranged dining room anywhere or a bette-
corps of waiters. Mt. Browder has graded
and shelled the walk* running through the
aro anas under tb* lovely shad* of the
broad spreading liveoaks. Tb* surround- ,
logs form a picture of beauty, such prob-
abiy as has no fellow In all of this great i
country. Yoa may ait in yonr room and ;
look out over the panorama over tne fine j
shell drive to the bay and acroes iu placid
waters to St. Joseph is'and. With tb*
first class accommodations and nnetjualed
esthetic surroundings of the place, with
the facilities for drives on th* b*ach and
sail, on tb* bay: with th* finest climate in
th* world and Its phenomenal health condi- i
tioas. it is a veritable Ctonia. a resort here- '
tofore only pictured in the 'ancitul imagin-
ings of the day dreamer. If yoa are in ;
search of health, pleasure or a surcease I
from labor com* to Live Oak peninsula. |
POLITICAL NOTES-
Now, tho difference and the only differ-
ence between the McKinley bill and th»
Mills bill is this: The McKinley bill is an
effort to restrict commerce by increasing
the burdens of taxation; th) Mills bill Is au
effort to relieve agriculture and commerce
of the unjust hurdecs Imposed during the
war. [Courier-Journal.
A great deal Is said about Quavlsm, but
the particular sample of it now before tha
senate committee on rules providing for tha
doing of necessary business by congress,
the dropping of the force bill for this ses-.
slon and an early adjournment, meets with
popular approval, and seems likely to bav®
tbe support of senate aud house. [Phila-
delphia Ledger.
If the Grand Army of the Republic ha»
become a big republican electioneering and
pension getting machine it is because tho
real heroes of the war are not in it, or, if
they are in it, because they havo been
crowded to the rear b/ the more clamorous
members who, like Beast Butier, have not
made as much out of their bargain as they
expected to. [Chicago News.
"Force blllers" are resorting to some very
stale devices "to fire the republican heart"
In aid of their attempted revolution. Sham
threatening letters, unsigned and myste-
riously mailed, as is said, are beginning to
make their appearance in the floater fund
dispatches. One of these, alleged to have
been received by Representative McDuffie
of Alabama, purports to be the wo-k of
some crazed crank, but bears tho ear marks
of the imperialist "literary bnreau" that
stamp it as "a put up job." [New York.
Star.
It is stated that the gag resolution of
Senator Edmunds was suddenly inspired by
the able speech of Senator Morgan on ths
tariff bill. Senator Edmunds has had moro
than one occasion to recognize the superi-
ority of tho Alabama senator in debate.
Able as Mr. Edmunds Is, he feels chat ha
can not cope with Mr. Morgan; but If ha
can not answer him, that is no reason for
applying tho gag to him. While the iftnaw
tor from Alabama was speaking Senator
Edmunds interrupted him with the gag
resolution. Can such pettiness find lodg-*
ment in celestial minds? [Philadelphia
Record.
Quay,sees that the Lodge-Hoar election
bill is a blunder, that i^litis almost no pop-
ular backing and that most of the strong
feeling there is about it is against it. R«-
pflblicans in the south object to it; news-
papers always loyal to the paVtv repudiate
it; business men all over the country pro-«
test against it. Only a few intense and
short-sighted partisans really want to havo
it passed. These are all things plaiu for
any one to see who will open his eyes, and
Senator Quav has nevor been accused of go-
ing about blindfolded. Therefore his reso-
lutions introduced Tuesday are easily ex-
Elained; he wants the debate on tbe tariff
ill to close on the 30th, because he thinks
two week3 more of such debate as is going
on now is all that his party can stand. The
country is already beginning to think that
the bill is a bad one, and unless tbis debate
is checked it may be convinced of it. So,
too. with tho force Dill; the less tho growing
opposition to it is fostered by further dis-
cussion, tho better for the party. Accords
ingly his resolutions provide for a quiet
death in committee for Mr. Hoar's pet, asi
well as for an early adjournment of th»
senate. [Springfield Republican.
ALLEOED HUMOR.
The gist of it.: "What is it tbe German
philosopher says, A handsome woman Is
always right?" "That was the way he said
it. I suppose be meant that pretty girls are
never left," [Racket.
Tbe work of reforming tbe malls of th*
United States is a job too big for the Phila-
delphia shopkeeper. Because he reads re-
ligious tracts that Is no reason why postage
stamps should not be bought and used by
people less virtuous than himself. [N. O.
Picayune.
Something Higher—Daughter: Papa, X
want a new dress. Papa: Always drosses,
dresses] You don't seem to have a though
for anything higher than dressesl Daught-
ter: Yes I have. I also want a new nab
[West Shore. _
Cool Siynmer Resorts.—Winks: Catch
me going to Mount Fashion another sum-
mer. Minks: Hot there? Winks:,No. Cold
enough for blankets every night. Mlnksi
Then what was the matter with it? Winks!
Tbey didn't hare the blanket*. [New YorM
Weekly.
Protection Wanted—First tramp: I'so
been begging ever since daylight and I'te
got cine cents. What's de matter Wid do
people? Second tramp: De troof Is, Cully,
these foreign beggars come over here and
ruin de bizness. What we need is proteek-
shun. [Texas Sittings.
Tailor; I really do bope you will settlo
this little account to-day, sir. I haven heavy
bill to pay my cloth merchant. Captain
(calmly): Confound your Impudence! Yod
go and contract debt*, and come dnuning
me to pay them. Get out, or I'll send for
the police. [Harper's Bazar.
Such Questions Arias—Tom: I say. Jack
bow many eggs dees a hen lay?
Jack (suspiciously): Is it a joke?
Tom: No really. I merely ask for lnfor<
mation. Since taking charge of that agri-
cultural paper, such questnios naturally
arise you know. [Yankee Blade.
O'Dowd: But, bedad, the day's at hand,
O'Brien, whin there'll be no tinants In ould
Oireland. O'Brien: An' whin's that?
O'Dowd: Whin the landlords that* there is
all abshentees. an' whin tbe tinants i* all'
landlords. O'Brien: Arrab, but there'll
sbtlll be wan tlnant lift, O'Dowd. O'Dowd:
An' who'll he be? O'Brien: Tbe Lord Lift',
tluant [Harper's Bazar.
Wife (from the window): Well, I dcclaral
John, I wouldn't spend time sprinkling
the dust ltrour neighbors' back yard especi-
ally when they a^e people who talk about
ns the way they do.
Hasband: That's all right, my dear: their
pet poodle was washed this morn, ng—now
he's oat hers rolling in tbe mad. Trust
yoar husband, my sweat, for tbonghtful-
n a?. [Bo»toui»b.
THE BOTTOM DRA 1VER.
In tbe best chamber in the honse.
Shut up in dim. uncertain ll«bt.
There stood au antique chast of drawers,
or (oreicn wood and bnuees bright;
One Diorn w woman fioil and gray
Stepp'd tottortncly across tbo floor—
"Let in," said she, "the light of day—
Tnen. Jean, unlock the bottom drawer"*
The girL In all youth's lovelin***.
Knelt down with eager, curious face;
Pcroh'ance she dreamed of Indian silks,
Uf jevreis and of rare old laee.
But wben the .nmmer sunshine fell
Upon thetreasnres hoarded there,
Tbe tears rucbed to h.r tender eyes.
Her heart was solemn as a prayer.
"Dear grandmamma!" she softly sigh*d,
Llftlnir a withered re
Bat on 1
But si pi
Leaning upon her staff i
LKti.iu a withered ros. and palion
lut on the elder face was naught
Hat «w*et content and peooefnl oalm.
waning upon her staff she gazed
I 'ron a baby', half worn shoe;
A little frock of finest lawn:
A hat with tiny bows «f bio*—
A ball made fifty year* ago;
a little glove; a tassl'd cap;
A half-done loug division sum;
Some School Look, faateaed «lth a strap.
She tonch'd tbem all with trembling lips—
•'How milch." she .aid, "the Heart csn hear.
Ah. Jean! I thought that I should di*
The day that first I laid them there.
"Bat a*.
That al
Th*ir he
When
ThoM ct
For wl
r it s*ems so good to know
\ throughout these weary rei
tits hav* been untouched by
rei have been aastained by
>n, we Me with cle>*r*r sight,
sarthir lore 1. almost o'er;
iidren wait me in tb* sk:ee
oxa 1 locked that aa< red drsi
IHai y A.
er.
barr.
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