The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. [11], Ed. 1 Friday, February 8, 1901 Page: 6 of 8
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LISTEN TO LAIWAM
The Texas Congressman Addresses
the HOuse
ON REORGANiZATJON Of HIS PARTY
The Lone Star Gentleman Urges the Com*
l ing Together of the Factions on
Some Common Ground.
'he Lo*tt
Valentine \
[iss Lavinia Dart was* m her kitchen
fOrning in February.
Lavinia rarely lost her self-
under any circumstances, and
not, at the age of forty-six
lecome the victim of that slay-
Leace and happiness of woman-
\erves.
the easiest person to fit in
town,” said Miss Dodd, the Har-
jille dressmaker. “An’ she’s dread-
tasty.”
Miss Dodd, having once “got
fed’’ on the subject of Miss Lavin-
, would go on and say: “I’d jest
^9 know why she never got mar-
ften been on the point of
it somehow I never could
lyself to it.’’
11 enough that Miss Dodd
Lite “fetch” herself to the
tstioning Miss Lavinia re-
Ir* aiiy pcssible lover of the past,
|:re were limitations to Miss La-
patience and gentleness, and
[limitations were reached when
itempted to take liberties with
Ivate affairs.
|ntly there was a knock on the
when Lavinia opened
lice, elderly, uncomfort-
ld in manifest perturba-
Irit, entered the kitchen.
_ heavily into a small rock-
IY chair near the shining stove, and
lowing the shawl she had thrown
her head to slip to her shoulders,
said gaspingly and with a sug-
fetion\of tears in her voice:
do’ ino’ what you’ll think, Laviny
frt; I do’ ’no’ what you’ll think, but
wva’n’t his fault. He coulcyttWti'elp
r-Roor rmaJ—^^uVhfe fault that
overturned on the way home,
jievee spoke again after they got
the house. I don’t see as you
Blaine him none or me either. I
lio’ when I’ve been so upset by
ling, Laviny.”
(hat is it, Mrs. Rice?” asked La-
“I have not the least idea of
iu are talking about.”
lon’t suppose you do, Laviny. I’m
set I hardly know myself what
lyin’. But I guess it’d give most
ly a queer turn to find that they’d
imething ten years that didn’t
feo ’em, an’ that the owner ought
id years an’ years ago. That’s
happened to me, an’ the thing
lad belongs to you.”
me?”
3, . to you, Laviny Dart.”
[nnot be anything of any con-
te.”
ie it ain’t, I’m sure I do. But
rnin’ I went up into my attic
"round for more cloth to finish
Pquilt. I opened an old red chest
I’ve kep’ some o’ my poor hus-
t’s clothes in ever since he died,
lse I kind o’ hated to cut ’em up
tivp ’em away an’ see somebody
faring them. The very first
took out was the coat my hus-
iad worn the day he met with
indent that_caused his death. The
fcmre so moth-eaten
Fmy mind that I might
' up an’ use what was
Tr the quilt. So I took it
[her things downstairs an’
Tin’ them out in the wood-
rI picked up the coat an’ was
it mighty hard when the old
iroke loose in one place an’ out
a letter! Yes, Laviny Dart,
pressed to you!”
street from each other, my husband
used to always fetch your mail from
the office when he’d see any in your
box—you remember that, Laviny?
“Well, as I figger it out, he’d been
to the post office and got this letter
for you an’ put it in his inside coat
pocket. I remember now, as one will
remember the last things their dead
said an’ done, how he told me ’fore
he left home that morning that there
was a big hole in that coat pocket. I
offered to fix it then, but he was in a
hurry an’ he said he would wait un-
til he come home an’ I could fix it
then—poor man! You know, Laviny,
how he never spoke after they brought
’im home after his sleigh upset an’
he fell out an’ hit his head on a bowl-
der by the roadside.”
“I know,” said Miss Lavinia, sym-
pathetically.
“Well, he’d ev’dently got this let-
ter for you an’ slipped it into his
pocket, forgetting how the pocket was
all ripped out at the bottom, an’ the
linin’, an’ so I never come across it
when I looked through the pockets of
the coat before I put it away. It did
give me such a turn to come across it
today.”
“I do not suppose that it is a mat-
ter of any consequence. My letters
seldom are very important,” said Miss
Dart.
“I hope this one ain’t,” said Mrs.
Rice, as she drew it forth from the
capacious pocket in her dress skirt and
handed it to Miss Lavinia.
The rather large envelope hadQfihe
been white, but it was yel-
low tint. Lavinia Dart’s "face turned
IT HAD BEEN TEN YEARS SINCE
SHE SAW WRITING LIKE THAT,
pale and then scarlet as she looked at
the address written in large but well-
formed and graceful letters. It had
been ten years since she had seen writ-
ing like that, but she recognized it in-
stantly with a quickening of the pulse
and a start.
“La, Laviny, what is it?”
“It is—nothing, Mrs. Rice. I—I—
my raspberries need attention, I
think.”
Knowing that her curiosity was not
likely to be gratified, Mrs. Rice finally
went home, feeling not a little ag-
grieved.
No sooner was the Widow Rice out of
the house than Lavinia picked up the
letter and opened it with trembling
fingers. She drew forth from the yel-
low-tinted envelope a folded sheet of
heavy paper embossed at the top with
a wreath of forget-me-nots. Below
the wreath was written in the same
bold, firm hand that was on the en-
velope:
“TO MY VALENTINE.”
Then followed these lines:
“LAVINIA.
“If thou my valentine wilt be,
If thou for life wilt abide with me,
I pray thee wear
In thy shining hair
tom thy red-rosegtree.
“Ten years ago he sent me this, and
it comes to me now. Oh, Nathaniel!
Nathaniel!”
She bowed her head on the table in
front of her and cried softly, saying
over and over again between her sobs:
“Oh, Nathaniel! Nathaniel!”
For ten years she had wondered why
he had gone away, leaving unspoken
the love she believed that be had in
his heart for her. She remembered so
well that night ten years ago—the
night on which Nathaniel Dorton had
looked for the red rose in her hair and
had not seen it. There had been a
valentine party at Squire Drake’s, and
Lavinia recalled how some spirit of
mischief had prompted her to tease
Nathaniel by allowing his acknowl-
edged rival, Joe Drayton, to pay her
almost constant attention and to take
her out to supper. She recalled how
she had taken a pink carnation from
Joe’s buttonhole and had thrust it
into her hair, and how she had
laughed lightly when Nathaniel had
said to her just before the party came
to an end:
“Good-iye, Lavinia. May you be
happy with him.”
She had never seen Nathaniel since
that night, and she had never cared
to see Joe Drayton again.
Lavinia was still sitting with her
head bowed on the table when Miss
Dodd come hurrying down the street
and turnecLin toward._Lavinia’s gate. ______________
^vifiiaT Had hardly time to hurry-"^"
rfe’e kitchen sink and dash cold water
over her tear-stained face before Miss
Dodd was in the kitchen, saying
volubly:
“You’d never guese who’s down to
Squire Drake’s house. Some one that
ain’t been in Harleyville for ten years.
You’d never in the wide world gues3
who it is, so I may as well tell yon
that it is nobody more nor less than
Nat Dorton. You remember him, don’t
you, Lavinia?”
Lavinia Dart’s own heart told her who
was coming when she heard her front
gate creak that evening and heavy
footsteps fell on the board walk lead-
ing to her door. Her own heart told
her that he would come, and when she
heard the gate open she went quickly
to the red rose bush in her window and
breaking a full blown rose, tucked its
stem in her shining hair. She had
put on a soft gray silk dress and a
dainty little white dotted Swiss apron
with strings of red satin ribbon and
little satin bows on the pockets, and
the tint of the rose in her hair was in
her cheeks as she opened the door and
held out her hand.
“How do you do, Nathaniel?” she
said, simply and naturally. “I am so
glad to see you.”
“Lavinia!” he said, clasping her
hand in boih of his own. When he
was in the hall and the door was
closed he took both of her hands in
his own and drew her toward him,
saying:
“Lavinia, it is ten years ago today
since I asked you to be my valentine—
my wife. I have thought all of these
years that you were another man’s
wife. Thank God that you are not! I
have thought today that perhaps my
poor, rhyming little valentine went as-
tray and that you never got it, after
all. Did it come to you, Lavinia?”
“Yes, Nathaniel; it came today.”
“Today?”
“Not until today. It has been long
delayed.”
He stooped and-kissed the red rose
in her hair.
“And so you are going to be my
v^’entine after all, Lavinia? You are,
you, dear?”
Washington, Feb. 1.—The house
Thursday passed the fortification ap-
propriation bill and made fair progress
with the postoffice appropriation bill.
During the general debate upon the
former bill Mr. Lanham of Texas de-
livered a notable speech upon the fu-
ture of the Democratic party, in which
he made a strong plea for the neces-
sity for united Democracy and coun-
seled the burial of the hatchet and the
welcoming back of those who in the
last two presiedntial campaigns have
declined to support the nominees of
the party.
Mr. Lanham submitted seme remarks
upon the question of the reorganiza-
tion of the Democratic party. He was
given a very attentive hearing by his
political colleagues. He reviewed the
lines of cleavage between the party,
with a view to ascertaining whether
there was not a common ground upon
which the various elements in the
party could be reunited for a future
purpoes. He offered his suggestion, he
said, in a pacific spirit to ascertain
whether the gulf between the elements
was impassible. The Gold Democrats,
he said, who bore none of the scars of
battle now, with unbridled audacity,
did not propose to return like the
prodigal son ,in humility, but came
demanding as a condition of their re-
turn that they should head the proces-
sion. They offered very freely their
unsolicited advice. The talk of the re-
organization of the party, he said, was
puerile and unkind: the talk of chang-
ing the name of the party was distaste-
ful to the rank and file. The Demo-
cratic party had suffered defeat many
times, but it would survive as long as
free institutions did.
The talk of shelving Mr. Bryan, he
said, was premature. He had fallen
with his back to the field and his feet
to the foe. He was a splendid Ameri-
can citizen and a Democrat. It was
improbable that he would ever again
aspire to the nomination, but it was
too early to discuss the candidates of
the future. He pointed to the strength
of the Republican party, which, he
said, was founded upon the subordina-
tion of the individual to the main pur-
poses of the organization. Republic-
ans differed in preliminary skirmisher,
but they were always united when the
real shock of battle came. He referred
to the action of Senator Hoar as a
striking example and proof of this
fact.
He contrasted the course of the Mas-
sachusetts senator with that of Mr.
elected president by
the Democratic J1} two
campaigns subsequent to his own else1
tlon turned his back upon his old
party associates. Mr. Lanham said if
] Mr. Cleveland and other Democrats
v. hose great abilities no one could
deny really believed that a defeat of
their party was necessary to bring if
hack to its old moorings, those who
had stood fast by the party’s candi-
dates and platforms might show char-
ity. Those of the Democrats who had
left the party in 1896, but who had re-
turned in 1900, had been welcomed
Swith open arms. He had welcomed the
return of Hill, Olney, Cockran and the
.others who had rallied to the rescue
|of the Republic in the recent cam-
r'paign. (Democratic applause.) Di-
vided, the Democrats could not suc-
jceed. The party had split upon the
|silver question.
! "He concluded as follows:
“To correct the wrongs and restore
to the people the joys of salvation,
the heritage the fathers gave us, is the
^mission of the Democratic party.
'When called to such, what man who
fever loved Democracy can refrain to
'obey the summons? To the execution
of this mission may we all devote ev-
ery energy and influence of which we
are capable, and may we engage all
our powers to reinstate Democratic
supremacy in this great Republic.”
Mr. Lanham was loudly applauded
and congratulated by the Democrats
when he concluded.
H A 1 CHEF IN riAN D,
Mrs, Nation Pays a Visit to Five Saloon*
in City of Topeka.
Topeka, Kan., Feb. 1.—Mrs. Carrie
Nation, armed, with a new hatchet,
started on a crusade ginst the Topeka
saloons at 8:30 Thursday morning. She
called on five.
The first visit was to the Apex, the
finest saloon i nthe city, hut no dam-
age was done. She was put out of the
place. She said she merely wanted to
lecture. However, should violence be
shown her she intened getting in her
work. She did no damage at the oth-
er four saloons.
A crowd of several hundred people
followed her down the street, most of
whom were sympathizers. The police
tried to arrest her, but the crowd pre-
vented.
Mrs. Nation says the Lord’s mission
to her to “clear out all joints in To-
peka before leaving” will be fulfilled^
and if the authorities do not suppress
the joints she will smash them, using
rocks and hatchets.
When Mrs. Nation appeared at the;
different “joints” the owners stood
back of the barricaded doors and wait-
ed an attack. She begged them to le|
her in that she might talk to them,
promising not to harm anything. But
they were afraid of her ana would not
open the doors. Nothing daunted she
talked at them, after tnis fashion:
“I’m sorry for you, boys. You look
so much ashamed of yourselves. I’m
not hating you a bit, even when I como
around with my hatchet, I’m treating
you just as I would treat oiie of my
own boys if I found him with some-
thing that would do him harm.
“But, boys, you must not stay in
this business any longer. I give you
warning. Just you close up and get
out of this business. You are harming
yourselves and other boys and I won’t
let you do it. If you don’t get out of!
this, boys, I’ll be around in a few days
and just break up your wicked little
shops for you.”
The saloon men seemed to be strong-
ly moved by the talk Mrs. Nation gave
them.
Mrs. Nation made a short talk to a
class at Washburn college, speaking
to the boys about cigarettes and cig-
ars. In the chapel of the college a
minister was speaking. Mrs. Nation
regarded him for a while, then lean-
ed over to a man near her and said:
“Won’t you ask the man on the,
stage to let me speak to those ho^s
about five mintes?* He’s been giving
them too much chaff, I want to give
them a few grains of wheat.”
But she was not permitted to talk.
FIELD AND FLOCK.
Peace Envoy Shot.
Cape Town, B’bb. 1.—The Boer at-
tack on the Boksburg mines resulted
in damages amounting to £300,000.
The commissioner at Kroonstad re-
ports that Andries Wessels, one of the
peace envoys, was shot at Klipfontein
Jan. 28 by orders of Gen. DeWet.
Lord Kitehener reported from Pre-
toria Jan. 13 that three of the Boer
peace commission were taken as pris-
oners to Gen. DeWet’s laager near
Lindley Jan. 10, and that one, who was
a subject, and two burghers flogged
GemDeWet’s orders. The identity
of <Andrffis^^^--r^b(li.i:i.SL1 to have^
been shot by Gen. DeWet at Klipfon-
tein on Jan. 28, can not he definitely
established. But Lord Roberts July 4
last reported that Gen. Methuen had
captured the commander of DeWet’s
scouts, two other prisoners and, ac-
cording to the cable, Andeles Wessels,
the head of the Afrikanderbund. It is
possible the Andries Wessels and An-
deles Wessels are the same person.
Morgan Deal, who was another of
the two Boer peace envoys and who
accompanied Andries Wessels, was
shot near Lindley Jan. 20.
• An unknown man was found dead
near Paris, Tex.
lanswered him by touching the
lie in her hair.
Explosion and Fire,
New York, Feb. 1.—An explosion
Thursday afternoon in the cigar fac-
tory of the William Wicke company, in
(East Thirty-First street, by which
jover twenty persons were injured, was
Ifollowed at 7 o’clock Thursday night
>y one of the fiercest conflagations
S!ew York has witnessed in many
using
Army Mill Passes.
Washington, Feb. 1.—After an event-
ful legislative experience beginning
with the present session of congress
and covering about two months, the
bill for the reorganization of the army
passed its last state in congress and
now goes to the president for his sig-
nature. The final step was taken in,
the senate whereby by a vote of 33 to
25 the conference report on the hill
was agreed to. The house already had
agreed to the report
Attempt on,Mines.
Johannesburg, Feb. 1.—Four or five
hundred Boers recently evaded the,
British patrols, reached Benoni and.
attempted to destroy the mines. Some
fighting resulted and the Boers were
driven off, carrying away most of their
wounded and leaving two wounded be-
hind them. The British captured three
prisoners. One Briton was wounded.
Severe Storm.
Norfalk, Va., Feb. 1.—Crippled ships
| which have arrived at this port bring
in news of the late storm at sea, which
| prove that it was unusually destruc-
I tive in character. The Russian steam-
| er Rossija arrived from Mobile, bound
! for Greenock, reports that her cargo
i shifted, in stress of weather and broke
threqjiades of her propeller. She met
Sweet potatoes are plentiful.
Celery is still in fair supply.
South Texas cabbage shipments are
under way.
Cattle conditions are excellent in
McMullen county.
Fresh strawberries are being re-
ceived at Atascosa.
Ab Allen of Mineola shipped a car
of fat steers to Fort Worth.
Market gardeners are actively at
work in southern Texas localities.
Wool outlook is rather poor.
Many sheep are being raised for
mutton.
Edens Bros, of Corsicana shipped
fifteen carloads of cattle to Chicago
on the 26th ult.
Wead Wilson, a stockman of Marfa,
recently bought 600 cows in Arizona
at advantageous prices.
The dry weather caused the wheat
acreage around Alexander to be re-
duced about 20 per cent.
J. F. Green, manager of the Cole-
man-Fulton Pasture company, shipped
from Sinton sixteen carloads of cattle
to Chicago.
J. E. & J. B. Dale of Bonham shipped
twelve cars of cattle to the St. Louis
market. A similar shipment was made
the previous week.
A new industry is opening up in
Pennsylvania. The jail of Elkland has
been leased to a man who is opening
up a skunk ranch.
A pew rule fixing the registry fee
for foreign shorthorn cattle at $iOd
has just been adopted by the Ameri-
can Shorthorn association.
The citizens of Anna community
donated and shipped one car of seeds
to the farmers of Waller county. The
car was consigned to E. B. Penick ol
Hempstead.
Tomato growers around Tampico,
Mex., are preparing to make shipments
to various cities of the United States.
They expect to send out a great num-
ber of crates.
Messrs. Wright & Allison of Taylor
shipped fourteen carloads of fat steers
to the Chicago market. This is the
second shipment that has been made
from that place recently.
S. H. Sale, who lives at Little Elm,
Denton county, a few years ago
bought fifty acres of land for $12.50
per acre and sold last year $1047 worth
cf cotton and wheat from the same.
J. B. Jones of Huntsville, the largest
tobacco grower in Texas, says last
year he realized $200 per acre from his
crop. He sells his tobacco in Chica-
go, New York and other large cities.
The Montana cattlemen, at least a
number of them, contemplate taking a
portion of their herds to Alaska in
the spring to be sold on the markets
of Nome, Dawson and the Copper river
country.
The Denver Stockman says that tha
railways have decided that this yea!
they will issue no passes to stockmen
going out in search of live stock. Thi
i excuse is that it is setting a oad exam-
j pie to people engaged in other indus*
1 tries.
The horse is once more attracting
the attention of lovers of horseflesh.
eo. A. McKenzie of Poplar Bluff,
Mol7 has^J}lst bought the 2-year old
black colt Electrite, from Col.
Exall’s Henry Lomo Alto' stoe
near Dallas, for $1000.
The Wyoming stockmen are getting
in shape to carry on a war of exterm-
ination among the wolves and coy-
otes. There is a bill before the legis-
lature which will pass $40,000 to the
bounty fund and be of much assistance
in this determined effort.
F. L. Davidson, a Panhandle stock-
man, sold an 8-month-old calf co an
Amarillo butcher which dressed 400
pounds and retailed at 8 l-2c, thus
netting $34. It was fattened on kaffir
corn.
W. W. Wilson and A. Cocauougher
of Denton have bought 350 steers from
the Perry Ellis estate at Eagle Pass.
The price is reported at $23.50 per
head. These steers, with 300 head,
bought by, them at Pearsall will be
fed at Denton.
The department of agriculture has
been making some experiments in de-
stroying prairie dogs. Bisulphide of
carbon and a mixture of strychnine
and potassium cyanide have proven
effective.
A deal was consummated at Fort
Y/orth whereby Charles E. Hicks of
Little Rock, Ark., becomes the posses-
sor of the Jim Reed ranch, comprising
7000 acres, and located twelve miles
north of Fort Worth. The considera-
tion is $60,000.
Interest In the meeting of the Texas
Live Stock association and the Fat
gtock show at Fort Worth on the 12th,
13th and 14th is increasing, ana
enough is known to assert that the
representation from south and south-
west Texas will be large.
Although the acreage is small, it Is
estimated that the immediate section
around Asansas Pass will produce at
100 perunds of enhhai
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