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THE HERALD: ARANSAS HARBOR, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1891,
THE HERhLD
P UBLIS1IED WEEKLY BY
S. H. McBRYDE.
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and communications invited on all topics of
general interest. Particular invitation is ex-
tended to readers who can communicate news
in regard to projects and improvements in
Southwestern Texas.
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Aransas Harbor, Texas.
ARANSAS HARBOR, THURSDAY, OCT. 8, 1891.
DEEP WATER AT ARANSAS PASS.
The San Antonio Express of Tues-
day published a communication from
M. A. Skidmore, of Beeville, in which
the natural advantages of Aransas
Pass and the attractions of the sur-
rounding country are clearly and for-
cibly set forth. The subject is one of
deepest interest to The Herald read-
ers, and we take pleasure in reproduc-
ing the entire communication on the
first page of to-day’s paper.
The correspondent, in describing the
natural advantages of this beautiful
and fertile region, paints the picture
in pleasing colors, but it is in now.ise
exaggerated. Indeed, it would be im-
possible in so short an article to enu-
merate all the advantages of soil and
climate here presented, and it would
prove difficult to portray in colors too
bright, the many charms of this por-
tion of Southwest Texas.
But the chief object ?>f the letter
evidently was to suggest a plan for
securing deep water at Aransas Pass;
and the plan proposed seems entirely
feasible, and could be carried out with
a united and determined effort on the
part of our people. An important
step has been taken in that direction
in the organization of the Aransas Pass
Deep Water Company. At a recent
meeting of that Company it was de-
cided to amend its charter by increas-
ing its capital stock to $1,500,000.
While this sum is less than that sug-
gested by the Express's correspondent,
it is really more than will be required
to secure a permanent depth of 25 feet
of water on the bar (or 80 feet if de-
manded), and to make all necessary
improvements in the Harbor, to con-
struct ample wharfage facilities, etc.,
etc. Such is the opinion of competent
engineers who have closely investi-
gated the subject. And that would
indeed and in truth give us the safest
and most commodious harbor between
Pensacola and Vera Cruz.
The people of Southwest Texas can
easily accomplish this aim if they will
hut resolve to do so and go to work
with a determination to succeed. The
entire West is concerned in this mat-
ter, and the entire West believes in
the great advantages of Aransas Pass
and Harbor. And wherever the peo-
ple are interested in the early accom-
plishment of the work they will assist
by purchasing shares of stock. When
sufficient money is raised to proceed
with the work its completion is a
question of only a few months. And
then this entire Southwest will de-
velop as no portion of the United
States has yet developed, and the
grandest city in the South will spring
up near the Pass, as if by magic.
Verily, “Our possibilities are only
limited by our action;” and not a day
should be lost.
4,000,000, and intimates there will be
a National ticket in 1892, with Weaver
or Polk at its head. Speaking of the
colored vote he said: “They are flock-
ing to us in the South. I believe that
this movement is the solution of the
race problem. It divides the colored as
well as the white vote of the South.
If it does nothing else it will do that
much at least. The old fight between
the blacks and the whites will be
broken; the blacks will take issue
with each other in politics the same as
the whites. That’s what they ought
to do. The lines are closer drawn in
the South than here. Everything
divides on the subtreasury scheme.
It is either endorsed or opposed by
every man in the South.”
the 5th mst., with appropriate cere-
monies. The invocation was pro-
nounced by Dr. Sears, of St. John’s
church, after which an able introduc-
tory lecture was delivered by Dr. J.
T. Y. Paine, dean. There were about
eighteen students entered.
The Houston Post says : It is sur-
prising to see a newspaper like the
Memphis Appeal-Avalanche oppose
the election of Hon. Carl Schurz to
the United States Senate from New
York because he has not always
been a Democrat. If all those who
were Republicans at the close of the
war had continued to uphold the
Republican party and vote the Repub-
lican ticket, what chance would there
have been for arousing the people to
the enormity of the crimes committed
in the South in the name of constitu-
tional liberty? Mr. Carl Schurz was
one of the first of the prominent Re-
publicans of the North to visit the
South and see for himself, and when
he returned to his home he told the
truth, and from that hour the power
of the political Republican faction in
the South began to wane.
PRUNING FRUIT TREES.
In a late number of the Austin
Statesman the following hints on tree
pruning are given under the head of
“Farm Notes,” which department is
edited by Mr. John C. Edgar, of Du-
val. The suggestions will be found
valuable to fruit growers, and espe-
cially to amateurs:
“No rule can be laid dowm that will
^be applicable in every orchard or with
eUK^variety of tree, but there are
certain general principles that every
fruit grower must act upon if he
would have his trees in good shape
and fruitful. Pruning is not so much
a matter of season as is supposed. It
should be done whenever the tree
shows a disposition to make a growth
of wood in a position where it should
not. As soon as that tendency is ob-
served, and the knife is sharp, the
pruning should be done. The smaller
the limb the less injury to the tree.
Suckers or water sprouts should never
be allowed to grow, but be removed as
soon as noticed. If a careful watch
has been kept on the small limbs, and
the knife properly used, there will
seldom be any large limbs to remove,
and the energies of the tree will go to
the development of useful limbs.
Amateur fruit growers are very liable
to neglect these precautions and
when they do prune, doit more for the
purpose of shaping the tree to an ideal
form, than to encourage its growth
and fruitfulness, which should be the
chief objects in pruning. It is absurd
to think of trimming a fruit tree for
the sake of scenic effect or uniformity
of shape. There is no uniformity of
shape in peach, pear, apple or plum
trees. Peaches more nearly resemble
each other in form than any of the
others, yet they vary so widely that
any attempt at making them uniform
in shape would end in failure and in-
jury to the trees. Pears and apples
are to be found of every shape, from
the tall, upright-limbed LeContes and
Keiffers to the sprawling, wide-
spreading Anjou and Nellis. There is
no natural resemblance between them
and it cannot be created artificially.
“The first thing is to know the habit
of the tree and then to trim it, as be-
fore mentioned, with a view to keep-
ing off useless growth.
“In Texas all treesshould be headed
low and the heads kept open to admit
air and light, so that#fruit may ripen
on the inside as well as on the outside
branches.
“In pruning care should be taken to
leave the last bud pointing in the di-
rection in which the new growth is
wanted.”
A dispatch from El Paso, Texas,
dated October 6, says: “The well-
known firm of George Sauer & Co., of
this city, has been seized by the United
States internal revenue officers fox-
alleged violations of the internal rev-
enue laws. The seizure was made on
the order of the commissioners of in-
ternal revenue at Washington and was
enforced by W. H. Kneisly, special
agent of internal revenue, who is now
in this city. The store is now closed.
This firm is also involved in a suit for
the amount of $24,385 in the Federal
court on allegations charging viola-
tions of the custom laws. The news
of the seizure caused excitement in
business circles. The firm was very
popular, and it is believed the charges
and difficulties will be successfully
adjusted.”
Nicaragua is making great efforts
to attract immigrants. The govern-
ment has reaffirmed a decree passed
in 1885 giving 120 acres of unoccupied
land to each immigrant family on de-
claration of intention to become nat-
uralized, and sixty acres to unmarried
men. Absolute titles to the land will
be given after ten years’ residence.
All immigrants will enjoy the right of
citizens and will be exempt from mil-
itary service. A wise precaution is
taken to insure the republic’s receiv-
ing desirable immigrants. Each im-
migrant is required to bring certain
certificates from the Nicaraguan con-
sul at the port from which he embarks.
It is reported from Atlanta that all
the rice mills in the South are to be
bought up by the Standard Oil Com-
pany and English capitalists and
pooled. Options on the mills in New
Orleans’, Savannah, Charleston, and
Wilmington are secured. The syndicate
proposes to put in Dutch milling ma-
chinery, by means of which the price
of rice will be lowered so that importers
of foreign rice cannot undersell Amer-
icans.
A Columbus (Ga.) special says that
the adjournment of the Georgia legis-
lature will be hailed with delight, and
a purse has been made up to have
a celebration when the breakup shall
occur. Taxes have been raised, legis-
lation inimical to railroads has had
the effect of depressing State and
other securities, and scenes have been
enacted on the floor of the house
which are a disgrace.
World’s Fair excursion parties
are already being organized in Europe.
One in England agrees to take people
to and from Chicago, and give them a
four weeks’ trip, including the lead-
ing cities of this country, for 20 guin-
eas. Tourists’ clubs are also being-
organized in Mexico on a similar plan,
the cost of the trip to each individual,
including Pullman car service, ten
days’ hotel bills in Chicago, and ten
admission tickets to the Fair, being
$260 in Mexican money. Thousands of
people are coming to America in 1893
from all parts of the world.
The Rockport Beacon says: It is
rumored that a dredge boat is now at
work on the channel from Aransas
Harbor to the Pass. This is very sug-
gestive that the big work of opening
Aransas Pass to the great argosies of
the world will be instituted at once.
As soon as we drive the first nail into
the bulwark, oceans of commerce and
money will flow into our marts and
banks.
Though everybody knows that ex-
Senator Blanche K. Bruce, the colored
Mississippian, holds the position of
recorder of deeds in the District of
Columbia, it is not generally under-
stood that this is the best paying
federal office after the presidency
When Fred Douglass held the place it
paid him the handsome return of
$40,000 a year.
On the 2d inst. a large meeting was
held at Windsor, in the province of
Ontario, for the purpose of discussing
the question of the political union of
Canada and the United States. A
letter was read from Professor Gold-
win Smith favoring the union and
resolutions in support of the proposi-
tion were adopted.
tion lies in the heart of the Cherokee
strip, just west of the Santa Fe Rail-
road, and is the richest land in the
territory. The tribe has their land
alloted and there are over 5,000 quar-
ter sections which the President can
declare open at any time.
FROM TOPEKA.
The Spanish minister has given
notice to the Department of State that
the customs authorities of Cuba will
accept proof of the American origin of
goods entitled to admission under the
recently negotiated reciprocity treaty,
the proof to be made before the Span-
ish consuls at the various United
States ports.
The Waco Day remarks: The San
Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad
developments show a combination of
legal complications that is perhaps
without precedent in the United
States. Injunction issued, writs
served, arrests for contempt, work
begun, work stopped, judges in con-
flict, officers at sea, and the end not
insight. One court'is in contempt of
another court, and everybody is in
contempt of everybody else. As com-
plications increase, the whole business
is liable to get in jail. In the mean-
time the people are clamoring for the
road. _
The Gazette asks: “How many
workingmen are idle in Fort Worth
because of the alien land law ?” And
adds that it “knows of several build-
ing enterprises that were killed be-
cause of this law, which prevented the
borrowing of foreign money to build
with. The building trades of all kinds
are affected by the cutting off of the
expected supply of cheap money, and
carpenters, masons, painters and all
laborers who are connected with the
building bnsiness, are sufferers. The
statesmanship of Mr. Gossett is as far-
reaching as the Asiatic cholera.”
The Beacon makes the following
statement: - We learn to-day that
Colonel Traylor said he would give
one-half of all his possessions in this
city if wo could get twenty feet of
water on the Aransas bar. This
information comes from eminent au-
thority, and other big men yet to
hear from.
Negotiations looking to agree-
ment upon a reciprocity treaty be-
tween the United States and Mexico
are in active progress in the city of
Mexico between a special commission-
er appointed by the Mexican govern-
ment and the United States Minister
Ryan.
The Huntsville Item says: Every
good citizen of Texas ought to sub-
scribe at least $1 to have the State
properly represented at Chicago. It
is not a question of, “What benefit
will it be to me?” but a matter of
State pride.
Are you a subscriber to The Her-
ald? If not, subscribe at once. No
public-spirited citizen of this section
can afford to be without it. And the
public-spirited citizen never fails in
the support of his home paper.
Milwaukee is boasting because a
citizen of that estimable city has beat-
en the divorce record. He received a
divorce at 10 o’clock, the petition hav-
ing been filed one hour before. This
beats all previous records.
The Kansas City Times thinks that
reciprocity, like a good many things
that Mr. Blaine has tried in the course
of his life, lacks body and backbone,
to say nothing of filling material. It
will catch suckers for a time.
When Captain Hurley and Dud
Bryan reach Houston the Texas
World’s Fair exhibit will get a boost,
and if Dud makes a speech the whole
town will turn out to hear him. So
says the Post.
The manager of a Chicago apart-
ment building says there is a great
rush of house-renting people to get
into boarding-places and hotels before
the World’s Fair opens. Others are
in search of small apartments just
large enough to accommodate their
families without leaving a spare room
for guests. They say they want to get
rid of their country cousins and ac-
quaintances who have written that
they will be on hand in 1893 for a visit
to the fair.
At Topeka, Kansas, Jerry Simpson
has been talking about the Alliance
and the negroes, and other matters of
moment. He stated that the Alliance
vote had increased 20 per cent over last
year. He claims a membership of
As the Convention of the Irish
National League of America, recently
held in Chicago, M. V. Gannon, of
Omaha, was elected to succeed John
Fitzgerald as president. Secretary
John P. Sutton was re-elected by
acclamation, and Dr. Gallagher, of
New York, unanimously chosen treas-
urer. The convention declared its
independence by refusing to recognize
either of the dominant party leaders
in Ireland.
The Waco Day says: The great
packing house in Forth Worth has
been obliged to stand idle for want of
material to work up. Meantime Texas
eats meat brought from other States.
Raise hogs.
After the State Fair, the Kansas Capital
Is Quiet.
Written for Tine Aransas Harbor Herald.
Topeka, Kansas, Oct. 3.—The sum-
mer is past, the harvest is ended, and
we are not millionaires yet. The an-
nual State Fair has come and gone.
We had a very good Fair this year, and
the receipts are, I believe, fully up to
expectations. The display of stock
was fine. Indeed, I was so captivated
by the creatures in that department
that I think I shall get me some land
and start off' at once to farming and
stock growing. The little Jersey
calves, like so many young fawns,
were a perfect delight to look at. And
the hogs and sheep—my stars, what
giants of their kinds! Some of the
Poland-Chinas weighed over a thou-
sand pounds—too fat to do anything
but lie there and grunt. And the in-
nocent sheep were, as usual, keeping
up their constant chewing. The vari-
ety and size of the poultry was won-
derful. I think I should like about a
thousand of them for pets.
But the people visiting the Fair
were no less a study than the crea-
tures displayed. The Colored Baby
Show was a funny thing in its way
and the premium for the finest baby
was awarded to the blackest one in
the crowd, showing that the predilec-
tion for unmixed blood is still in the
lead. The fruits and flowers were fine
and the educational department was
not forgotten, as I heard a youth, re-
ferring to the Encyclopaedia Britan-
nica, say to his companion, “Come
’ere, Jim; let’s go and see them Brit-
nyky books !”
I might write you a long letter about
the races', but I don’t believe in them.
I think it an abuse of power and a
cruelty unworthy of kind-hearted peo-
ple.
For some reason I haven’t been
worth a cent to work since the Fair
closed. I am sure it was not the load
of premiums I carried home that tired
me, and I don’t believe I broke any
hearts or did anything very naughty.
Too much levity !
Well, I have had my dinner in the
meantime and felt much revived in
the inner woman. I can readily un-
derstand the remark of a clever woman
writing of men. She said, “If you
want to keep a man in a good humor,
keep him stuffed.” Women are al-
ways thinking of men, and I am sure
I don’t know why. One of the pretti-
est things at the State Fair was made
by a woman, and for a man, of course:
The lady who owns and manages a
shirt factory in Topeka had a large
display of her work in gentlemen’s
wear on exhibition. The fine em
broidery and fancy stitches on some
of the unmentionables was quite amaz-
ing. I laughed quietly to myself as I
thought, well, all the simpletons are
not women ! And she had them all
strung up, broadcast, so that every
one could see. I said silently, “Well,
gentlemen; your secrets are gone!”
But the beauty of the collection, and
what I set out to tell about, was a fine
white cashmere shirt with a full bos-
om of white brocaded silk, turned
down collar and cuffs to match. The
front had diamond shirt-studs in it
which threw a beautiful glamour over
the shining silk. The stitchings were
perfect, and altogether I thought it
the most exquisite article of gentle-
man’s apparel I had ever looked at. I
felt an inward longing to find me a
sweet Apollo, somewhere, just for the
pleasure of giving him one of those
things.
One very highty-tiglity lady said to
me, “Oh, I’d hate to make a gentle-
man a present of a shirt.” “Oh, fid-
dlesticks !” said I; “I don’t see why.
Hasn’t everybody seen them? Just
look at the clothes-lines every Monday
morning; why, there are millions of
them flying in every direction! I
don’t see any more impropriety in giv-
ing a gentleman a beautiful shirt than
a pair of embroidered suspenders,
socks, or anything else of that kind. I
don’t care; I am going to give some-
body one, and if he doesn’t know what
it is he can tie it around his neck for
a necktie, a muffler, or do somethin «•
with it!”
Ihe Rock Island Railroad had a fine
Foreign Commissioners Pleased With
the Preparations at Chicago.
HISTORICAL HLDII1CS 10 BE
A Large Attendance From Mexico Ex-
pected.—The Races.—Items of
General Interest.
Chicago, Sept. 29.—More than 15,-
000,000 feet of lumber will be used in
the construction of the huge building
for Manufactures and Liberal Arts.
The foreign commissioners—Sir
Henry Wood and James Dredge of
England, Herr Wermuth of Germany
and Dr. Emil Myer of Denmark—are
greatly impressed and pleased at the
building plans and extensive prepara-
tions for the Exposition. Said Mr.
Dredge: “I have examined the plans
very carefully. They contemplate
the erection of magnificent buildings.
They are bold, striking, and, I may
say, in advance of our anticipations.
From an architectural point of view I
do not believe they could be improved.
And lam assured that the landscape
effects will be in harmony with the
architectural features. Mr. Olmstead
is the greatest landscape engineer in
the world. The work he has done for
the World’s Fair shows that.”
A reproduction of Independence Flail
is now proposed as Pennsylvania’s
building at the Exposition. Prizes of
$1,000, $500 and 300 have been offered
for the best plans for a State building,
but it is thought the State commission
will seriously consider rejecting them
all and reproducing Independence
Hail instead.
The Association of Civil Engineers
of the City of Mexico has voted unani-
mously to attend the Exposition in a
body.
American jewelers are contemplat-
ing the project of massing their ex-
hibits at the Exposition, believing
that a more effective showing can be
made in that manner. The matter is
not yet decided. Foreign jewelers are
preparing to make an exhibit of un-
precedented extent and value.
The Washington Park Club is per-
fecting arrangements for a most nota-
ble race meeting in 1893. The stakes
in the American Derby that year
are to be $50,000; in the “Queen Isa-
bella” one mile for three-year-old
fillies, $25,000; in the “Columbus
Handicap” for three-year-olds and
upwards, $25,000; in a race far two-
yearmolds, $25,000; and large stakes
will be provided fora number of other
races. The racing track is close by
the World’s Fair grounds.
M. O. Jaensch, of Wahoo, Neb.,
writes to Chief Allison offering to the
Exposition a valuable collection of
arms. The collection includes 100
pieces, including swords, pistols, guns,
etc., being a complete showing of all
the different swords and firearms
made from the time of the invention
of gunpowder down to the Franco-
Prussian war. Mr. Jaensch says the
collection was left him by will. He
offered it to the Exposition without
cost.
Lieutenant Baker, special commis-
sioner for the World’s Fair to Mexico,
reports that Mr. Berringer, a promi-
nent merchant and landholder in Ta-
basco, will send to the Exposition a
magnificent collection of the cabinet
woods of Mexico. At the Paris expo-
sition, Mr. Berringer exhibited one
hundred varieties of the finest cabinet
woods, but at Chicago he promises to
increase his collection to more than
two hundred samples and show a spe-
cimen of every variety of cabinet wood
in the Republic of Mexico.
Lieutenant Safford has secured two
large, full rigged “balsas,” such as
are used by the Indians of Lake Titi-
caca in their commercial trips along
the shores. These balsas will be seift
to Chicago, together with an interest-
ing collection of musical instruments,
weapons and wearing apparel of the
Titicacans.
The Agricultural and Arts Associa-
tion and the Stock Breeders’ Associa-
tion of Toronto have voted to urge the
officials and government of Ontario to
take measures to have the province
properly represented at the Exposi-
ran the locomotive is still alive, and if
still living at the time of the World’s
Fair may accompany the venerable
engine.
Exposition stock subscriptions have
now been paid in to an aggregate ex-
ceeding $3,000,000, although only 60
per cent has thus far been called for.
The $5,000,000 of city bonds voted by
Chicago are now available and will be
put on the market soon.
No Japanese goods or exhibitions
will be permitted at the Exposition
unless they have first received the ap-
proval of the Japanese officials in
charge of their government exhibit.
The Exposition Directory rendered
this decision at the request of Japan-
ese Minister Mutsu, who is the Japan-
ese imperial commissioner to the Fair.
A similar rule will be enforced in the
case of other foreign nations.
A Turkish flag was hoisted at the
World’s Fair grounds on Sept. 20 with
appropriate ceremonies. It was raised
on the site which Robert Levy, of Con-
stantinople, has secured for his Turk-
ish specialties. He will reproduce a
Constantinople street, show most of
the striking features of Turkish life
and have a novel and interesting col-
lection of Turkish goods and curios.
The flag was raised in conjunction
with the stars and stripes and is the
first one of the scores of foreign flags
eventually to enliven Exposition
scenes.
Choral Director Tomlins has return-
ed from Europe much elated over his
success in inducing the best trained
and most celebrated choirs abroad to
come to Chicago in 1893 to participate
in the proposed choral contest.
The Department of Public Instruc-
tion of Nortn Dakota has undertaken
to secure an exhibit which will ade-
quately represent the educational fa-
cilities of that State. It has issued to
teachers and county superinteudants
a strong circular containing an explan-
ation of the enterprise in hand, vari-
ous regulations to be observed, and a
“Manual of Work for the World’s Col-
umbian Exposition Course for Teach-
ers and Reading Circles.”
The Massachusetts building at the
Exposition will be modeled after the
historic old Hancock house, which
stood on Beacon street, Boston, for
fully 125 years. Built by his uncle in
1737, this mansion was occupied by
John Hancock, the signer of the Decla-
ration of Independence, when Gov-
ernor of Massachusetts, and there he
entertained Washington, Lafayette,
and many other distinguished Revo-
lutionary patriots. Massachusetts will
spend $35,000 or $40,000 in imitating,
at the World’s Fair this famed man-
sion. The building will be used al-
most exclusivly as a State headquar-
ters and club house.
Charles Garrett, of Hot Springs,
Ark., will exhibit at the Fair his ex-
tensive collection of mineralogical
specimens, including the famous Plot
Springs diamonds.
The National Brick Manufacturer’s
Association has appionted a commit-
tee of five to secure an international
exhibition of clayworking machinery
for the World’s Fair, and the commit-
tee has issued an address inviting the
views of the trade.
How the Fashionable Ladles of Chili
Attend the Theatre.
THE DISTINGUISHED EDITOR OF HARPER’S BAZAR
Noted Woman Pieacher. — America
Must Try to Do Without Nellie
Grant.—Other Notes.
OHIO POLITICS.
tion.
New South Wales, Australia, has
decided to participate in the Exposi-
tion, and has appointed a commission
of twelve to collect exhibits.
A convention of representatives of
the militia of the different States of the
Union will be held in Chicago Oct. 20
to discuss and take action upon the
question of a proper military display
during the dedicatory ceremonies of
the week of Oct, 12, *1892. The dele-
display of fruits, grata aud vegetab.es “^’tiv^o^
from Oklahoma, and among other ' ' '' * - - —
things a petrified woman. She was a
All persons who have paid one
year’s subscription to The Herald
can have the paper sent for one year
to any friend for one dollar additional;
thus getting two yearly subscriptions
for $3.
President Harrison has sent to
the Governor-General of Canada a
request for the postponement of the
Reciprocity Conference, on account of
the continued illness of Mr. Blaine,
The Houston Post thinks it would
be no serious loss to American news-
paper readers if communication with
the Latin-American republics should
be cut off'for a whole month. Politi-
cal intrigues and revolution in those
countries would then have an added
zest of freshness.
The medical department of the uni-
versity of Texas was formally opened
in Galveston, at 12 m, last Monday,
The Census Bureau has issued a bul-
letin which shows that the real estate
mortgage debt in force in Illinois
January 1, 1890, was $384,299,260.
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for this paper.
The duller the trade the more valu-
able the advertisement. Everybody
buys in “good times.”
Land to Be Opened.
Guthrie, O. T., Oct. 6.—Reliable
information has been received here
from Washington to the effect that the
Nez Perces reservation will be declared
open t9 settlement by the President
In a very short time. This reserva-
beauty! I hope I shall be as hand-
some when I am her age. But I shall
put a codicil in my will to the effect
that I am not to be peddled around
the country for a public curiosity,
tossed up in the air, bobbed around
here and there, and otherwise irrever-
ently handled.
We have had very hot, dry weather-
all through September. The soldiers
aie having a State reunion here now,
but it is poorly attended and not cre-
ating much stir. Indeed, it seems
that little short of an earthquake
would stir Topeka. Like Rip Van
Winkle, I should like to go to sleep
and sleep until this lethargy is over.
But the death-like stupor is upon us,
and one can almost fangy he hears the
rattle of bones in any unexpected
sound. Shall we ever live at this poor,
dying rate? If so, I vote that we get
aboard an air ship or some other con-
trivance and travel to the moon.
Irene.
----
Strength of Men and Ants.
An ant three-eighths of an inch long,
carrying a burden of one-sixth of a
grain, moves at the rate of ope mile in
eleven hours. This weight—-a small
one compared with what they some-
times carry—is eighteen times then-
own. In carrying this weight they
compare with a man 5£ feet high,
weighing 140 pounds, carrying a ton
and a half Of lead from St. Louis to
Jefferson City and back again in
twenty-two and a half hours.
He Wanted to Know.
“Excuse me,” said J, Play Seed to
the stranger who had so cordially
shaken hands with him—“excuse my
askin’—but are you a regular profgs=
sioual or jist. an amatoor?”
Birmingham’s Big Depot.
The largest railway depot iu the
world is at Birmingham, England.
It covers eleven acres.
nors upon invitation of the Exposition
committee on ceremonies. A full at-
tendance is assured.
When Columbus was made a pris-
oner in San Domingo the Governor
who arrested him feared there might
be an attempt at rescue. So be trained
a big gun on the entrance of the
citadel, or castle, in which Columbus
was confined. That cannon has lain
in the same place ever since until now,
when Mr. Ober, a World’s Fair repre-
sentative, recovered it, and with the
permission of the Governor of San
Domingo, brought it to the United
States. It has been shipped to Chief
of Construction Burnham in order that
he may use it in some way in orna-
menting the Exposition grounds.
J. H. Laing, Jr., of J. H. Laing &
sons, florists of London, after a talk
with Chief Thorp of the Floriculture
division, became a World’s Fair en-
thusiast, and offered to donate 10,000
begonias and send over two men to
care for them during the Exposition.
Chief Thorp says that he thinks $500,-
000 worth of orchids will greet the
eyes of visitors on the opening day of
the Exposition
Lieutenant A. C. Baker, World’s Fair
commissioner to Mexico, reports that
the government of Mexico will partici-
yote in the grand military display and
encampment that is to be held at Chi-
cago on Oct, 12, 1892, and that the
crack regiment of the Mexican army-
will be seen iu full numbers. Lieuten-
ant Baker also reports that among
other attractions of the Mexican ex-
hibit at Chicago in 1893 will be a fine
band and company of rqrales (as the
picturesque militia of the mountain
districts are known), a troop of the ep=
gineer batallion, a typical Mexican or-
chestra, an Aztec village, moulders in
clay from Guadalajara, a Mexican gar-
den and a miniature of the Valley of
Mexicos,
The Department of Transportation
is offered one of the most valuable rel-
ics of the early days of railroading in
this country and will doubtless secure
it for an exhibit, The old locomotive
“Samson,” built ip England in “the
thirties” by the celebrated Timothy
Hack worth and brought to this coun=
try in 1838, is still in existence and in
working order. Accompanying- it is a
quaint old passenger car built iu imi-
tation of a stage coach, both standing
on some of the old scolloped or fish-
beliy rails. The engineer who first
Alliance Men and Third Partyites Coming-
Over to Campbell.—Tlie Senatorsliip.
Columbus, Ohio, October 6.—The
independent voters of this State are
more ready every day to support
Campbell as against McKinley for
governor, and the more so as the State
Republican committee refused to assent
to joint debates between the two, giv-
ing as an excuse, that all their man’s
appointments were made and could
not be revoked. The third party,
which promised to be a power, has
virtually gone to pieces, and the Dem-
ocratic nominee has reaped a good
harvest of voters therefrom. In Clin-
ton county, the farmers claim they
will elect a member of the legislature,
but the vote will go for Campbell, for
governor in the hope of defeating
Sherman for a return to the senate.
The contest for the legislature be-
tween Foraker and Sherman is an in-
teresting one, and by the friends of
each is the claim made that his fa-
vorite is in the lead. A majority on
joint ballot is seventy, and Foraker
men say he needs but three more votes
to capture the prize, while Sherman
is saying nothing and working.
The rule that the vote of Ohio in
the year preceding the presidential
year is always the largest cast up to
that time, will have uo exception in
November. Governor Campbell in
1889 received 379,000 votes, consider-
ably more than were ever before cast
for a candidate for his office in this
State, but should he get no more this
year he will be defeated by 40,000
votes. The general opinion is that
the total vote will run from 850,000 to
875,000, and that after making due
allowance for the prohibition and peo-
ples’ parties, either Campbell or Mc-
Kinley may get 400,000 votes and still
be beaten. The Republicans have
never polled 400,000 votes but once,
and that was in 1888, when they gave
416,000 to Harrison, while the highest
Democratic vote was 396,000 for Cleve-
land. The number of new and uncer-
tain voters to cast ballots this year
will be very large.
Fannie Ward, in the Washington Star.
In noting Santiago’s public institu-
tions we must not omit the theatres.
Besides the Teatro Politeama, the
Teatro Santiago, the French Theatre
on Santa Lucia and a few other third-
rate temples of music and the drama
there is a splendid Government opera
house known as the Teatro Municipal,
which is the finest structure of the
kind in South America, and for size,
gorgeousness and arrangement sur-
passes anything we have in the United
States. A description in the cold
black and white of print can convey
but a faint idea of how it looks at its
bestjbrillianlty lighted and filled with
the creme de la creme of the Chilian
capital—when the blaze of jewels is
not more dazzling than the glances
that flash from southern eyes nor the
music sweeter than beauty’s smile—
when Parisian toilets, bare arms, flut-
tering fans and a thousand opera-
glass flirtations bewilder the specta-
tor. The building is constructed in
horseshoe form, and its internal ar-
rangement is on the European plan,
with four balcouies, three of which are
divided into boxes, tier above tier, iu
semi-circular shape, all luxuriously
upholstered with crimson brocade and
decorated in white and gold. The
balconies have no pillars to obstruct
the view, but are supported upon
brackets, each bracket being a beau-
tiful female figure with uplifted arms.
Formerly none but men, and those
not of the upper classes, ever >
the body of the house, though ^ re-
ality it is quite as comfortable as th
boxes, but the English residents, wi/
the natural independence of lo
Britains—and who are known to st/
as high socially and financia ... ;
body to the Chilian “main. - >
succeeded in time in elevating
character of the pit by persistiuj.
occupying it with their well-dressed
ladies. Now, though perhaps not so
fashionable as the show places above,
the floor of the house is always filled,
at the average price of $4 a seat, even
when the boxes are comparatively
empty. But inexorable custom, which
in Spanish-America must not be de-
parted from, decrees that ladies iu the
pit must wear their bonnets or some
other light covering for the head,
while never a bonnet appears above,
all the ladies in the boxes being* dressed
tor the simplest farce (or rather
half undressed so far as the bodice is
concerned) as for the grand opera in
Paris or London.
a. j
fnhOTitedTcoTfktoWe sum, which a
could not be induced to live
ica again. She prefers Eng
The Wife of “Uncle Ken
Ladies’ Home Journal.
Mrs. Joel Chandler Han
neople sometimes ha\ e a fun
calling her, “the wife of Unch
is a French. Canadian. Her
West End, a suburb of Atlai.
is roomy and picturesque, with many
windows and wide verandas. Mrs.
Harris is a bright-eyed brunette, who
says her accomplishments have dwin-
dled to two, making butter and get-
ting the children to bed by 8 o’clock.
She has six little people, and when
they have gone to bed she sews or
reads while her husband writes his
stories. She does not affect any non-
sense about “the claims of loug de-
scent,” but her laces and jewels in-
clude many quaint heirlooms. She is
in black at present for a little son who
died a few months ago.
A Woman’s Toast.
The Ladies’ association in Great
Britain is relaxing the severity that
associated women seem to think it in-
cumbent upon them to assume, and
one of their chairmen gave as a toast
at a great banquet: “The Gentlemen
—Bless’em! They halve our joys,
they double our sorrows, they treble
our expenses, they quadruple our cares,
they excite our magnanimity, they
increase our self respect, awaken our
enthusiasm, arouse our affections, con-
trol our property and outraaneuver
us in everything. This would be a
dreary’world without them. In fact,
I may say, without prospect of suc-
cessful contradiction, that without
them this world would soon pine and
wither, and the last female would
have to put up the shutters. I do uot
envy her that job.”
A Woman Instructing:
setter,
Jiostoi
Miss Alice Par 14 er’ attoueJ at law,
lately proposed f"meudments to the
existing MassaeJr\S<(^s /avvs °f distri-
bution and ad-4':,‘Slrat,oJ' of es*■>
7/1. V %
BENEFITS FROM THE FAIRS.
More of Them Needed to Educate South-
west Texas Farmers.
Houston Post.
The county and district fairs in pro-
gress in various portions of Texas are
an indication of the State’s prosperity
and advancing strides.
The reports tell of fine exhibits, both
tinder roof and in the arena, and of
a good attendance of visitors.
The fair and exposition is a great
educator aud stimulator of enterprise
and industry, illustrating as it does,
the improvements that have been
made and may be made in livestock,
products of the soil and all the arts
and industries. The farmer who has
been content to plod along in the old
beaten path sees the greater progress
his more enterprising and prosperous
neighbors are making and is prone to
imitate their example, for, being
brought face to face with actual results,
he is much more easily convinced’
The livestock exhibit at even a county
fair is often a revelation to many visi-
tors from the immediate neighbor-
hood, and stimulated by the object
lessons afforded, they go home re-
solved to profit by what they have
seen.
The fair is at once the farmer’s pa-
rade ground and his school. What a
pity that South Texas does not see
the point.
A Railroad In the Air.
The highest trestle on the line of
the Northern Pacific Railroad is that
across the Corsican defile, about
twelye pijles west of Missoula, Mont.
The track level is exactly 300 feet
9 inches above the rocks in' the gorge
below,
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Not Boom Prices.
Some land in Paris lias been sold at
the rate of $2,000,000 per acre; some in
London for what would net $5,000,000
per acre, and some in New York for
a sum equal to $8,000,000 per acre.
Mrs. Sangster.
People who ride back and forth on
the Roosevelt street ferryboats to the
Eastern District of Brooklyn have fre-
quent occasion to notice a rather tall,
straight, white-haired woman who
never sits in the stuffy “ladies’cabin,”
but always stands on the forward
deck enjoying the many moods of the
water in many weathers and the pass-
ing of boats and the play of the gulls.
Morning and night she goes to and
fro, and there are many who are fa-
miliar with her fine, strong, serene
face, with its calm eyes, who do not
know her as Mrs. Margaret E. Sangs-
ter, the editor of Harper's Bazar.
Mrs. Sangster has been before the
public as a writer for a quarter of a
century, beginning with verse and
combining later the practical work of
a critic and journalist. Pier poems are
full of tender sentiment and her sto-
ries are bright and well told. She has
done excellent work in the field of
book-reviewing, but it is for her wise
and progressive work as editor of the
Bazar that she is best known. Of her
profession as a journalist she once said:
•I would not exchange it with all its
drudgery for any other position of
which I can dream. Everything about
it suits me. More, perhaps, than any-
thing else, I value the opportunity it
gives me to say helpful words to the
struggling of my own sex.”
WllfclT
[ment.
Slender Girls in Demand.
Vinathaven Cor. Rockland (Mass.) Courier-Gazette.
A novelty in the dancing iine was
the “weight ball” held at Odd Fel-
lows’ hall, Wednesday evening. The
name and weight of each lady attend-
ing was placed on two tickets, the
lady retaining one. Every gentleman
purchaser was required to pay half a
cent per pound for the weight of the
lady whose name was on bis ticket,
besides entertaining her during the
evening.
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reciprocity in teaching.
A Minister Forty-Nine Years.
Rev. Lydia Sexton, was born in Sus-
sex county (now Rockford), in the
State of New Jersey, April 12, 1799
and is, therefore, 92 years old. During
the past forty-nine years she has been
preaching as a Unity Brethren minis-
ter in various portions of the country
with remarkable success. She is no\v
at Seattle, Wash., says a special dis-
patch from that city, ou a visit to her
son, and preached there last Sunday
She is remarkably vigorous and pre-
dicts that slie will live to the year
1900, thus extending her life into three
centuries. Mrs. Sexton was appointed
chaplain of the Kansas State Peniten-
tiary on January 1, 1870, and held the
office two years, during which time
ex-Congressman Harrison Kelley was
one of the Board of Directors. She
has many relations in New Jersey,
Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Mis-
souri, Arkansas and Washington.
Her memory is excellent andbrn- sight
remarkably good. While ou a visit to
Little Rock recently, she made a silk
quilt. Her voice is clear and melodi-
ous, aud she delights to sing sacred
songs to the congregation. The grand-
father of this remarkable woman was
the French Marquis, Anthony Cozot,
who came to America early in the
seventeenth century.
Nellie Grant Anglicized.
New York Evening World.
Mrs. Sartoris, nee Nellie Grant, is a
specimen of the complete Anglicizing
that a dozen years’ residence on the
other side can make in a native Amer-
ican. Mrs. Sartoris was born and bred
in the United States, and so were her
parents, grand parents and great-
grand parents before her. She mar-
ried a Briton a dozen or more years
ago, went over the seas to live with
him, and now comes back to her peo-
ple and friends with three beautiful
children, named out of an English
story book-Utoseniury, Vivien and
Lionel,
Julia, Ellen and Hiram are not so
romantic, but they are names that her
progenitors boie, and they are names,
too, that twenty years hence, in all
probability the descendants of the
Dent-Grant-Sartoris family will prefer
to their own ridiculous appellations.
By the death of her father-in-law, who
How the Trustees and the Parents Should
Aid the Teacher.
The following article was clipped
from the “School Department” of the
Luting Signal, and is worthy of the
careful perusal of all persons who are
interested in good schools :
“In order to build up and maintain
a school of high standing, there must
be a reciprocal feeling between the
superintendent, school board, teach-
ers, pupils and patrons. There must
be a spirit of willingness on the part
of each to yield to any measure that
tends toward the good of all. There
are reciprocal duties, or relations that
each owes to the other, and that no
teacher, patron or pupil, has a light to
ignore. These duties and relations
should be more carefully considered,
and more intelligently acted upon.
Ih.e relation of the teachers or su-
perintendent to the school board should
be of the most intimate kind. No lack
of confidence should be felt by either
party, but a mutual interchange of
opinions and suggestions will result in
the highest good of the school.
It is the intention of the law that
the school board or trustees shall
meet once a month and examine and
approve me teacner^s voueners and
look after the general welfare of the
scfiool. But some school boards, es-
pecially those located in the country
districts, seem to think that when
tney have procured a teacher for the
next term, and replaced a fewr broken
window panes, and patched up the
old school house, that they have dis-
charged their whole duty. The fact
is, that their work has just begun.
Ine trustees are the pillow of the
school, and if they fail to give their
united support, the most skilled teach-
ers can but fail to build up a good
school.
* ^ school director in one of the largest
and best public schools of South-
western Texas, was heard to remark
that he would sustain the action of a
superintendent or teacher, though lie
were in fault. Such loyalty to a
school, aud its teachers, by the school
hoard will throw a damper on fault-
finding patrons, and set at naught false
Reports, so often circulated by design-
ing persons, with regard to the man-
agement of the school, or about per-
matters concerning the teacher.
One of the greatest blessings that
auy school enjoys is an active, intelli-
gent school board; one that is willing
o co-operate with the superintendent
eacher and aid him in the outside
v or kings of the school. The relation
xisting between the teacher and his
patrons are in manj’- respects like that
rp, suPerifitendent and school board,
m V^omemt a child enters a school
A3. nUner and mother become inter-
siing factors in the patronage of that
m<K) i ’ they have a right to de-
• a,ud that t-heir child receive equal
and privileges.”
the ^acher’s ear should be always
x.hfn to kindly spoken suggestions
di Patrons, and closed to all
, oration, or anything that smacks of
Nine timos
'11 ai/Y person,
out of ten, school i
uyonled by the teac
mildly Warning- of
by the offended
other privately aud
omise of the trouble.
Musical Fish c
( Every bay and inlet
Geylon abounds with
■Their song, if it can be
|f u°t one sustained note hh.c a omi's,
fiit a multitude of tiny, soft, sweet
h°qUu?8’ ea°h clear and distinct in
something like vibrations of a
leg lass when its rim is rubbed with
of “^tened finger. In the harbor
m Hornbay, India, there is a fish with
^o'mih 6 sound produced by an
x ' kei‘e *s not much difference be-
ween what a man is and wliat lie
' ies to make other men out to be.
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