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THE HERALD: ARANSAS HARBOR, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1891.
THE HERHLD
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
S. H. McBRYDE.
Entered at the Aransas Harbor Post Office as sec-
ond-class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE:
One Year, Postpaid.
Six Mouths..........
.$2.00
. 1.25
ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION.
CORRESPONDENCE
and communications invited on all topics of
general interest. Particular invitation is ex-
tended to readers who can communicate news
iu regard to projects and improvements in
Southwestern Texas.
All communications should he addressed to
S. II. McBRYDE,
Aransas IIahbor, Texas.
ARANSAS HARBOR, THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1891
WORLD’S FAIR COMMISSIONERS.
Judge Borden appointed the follow-
ing named ladies and gentlemen as
members of the World’s Fair Commis-
sion for San Patricio county, to-wit:
Hon. George W. Fulton, Jr., of Rin-
con ; Miss Theresa Cummins and Mr.
John Willacy, of Portland ; Miss Kate
Dougherty and Mr. S. J. Lewis, of
San Patricio; Mr. S. B. Carnes, of
Mathis, and Mr. S. H. McBryde, of
Aransas Harbor. These appointments
were made several weeks ago, but as
yet the committee has failed to organ-
ize. This is an important matter and
the committee should at once effect an
organization and get to work.
In a letter just received from Judge
Borden he says: “I scarcely know
how to perfect our organization, as the
members are scattered over the county,
and it would not, in all probability, be
convenient for them to meet in any
one place. How would it suit for each
member of the commission to take
such steps as may seem best, in his or
her respective district, and report
progress from time to time to the
chairman? Any suggestion from the
members will be appreciated.”
We think the plan presented by
Judge Borden a good one, for the pre-
sent, at least. While a meeting of the
commission is very desirable, it may
not be practicable just now. Howev-
er, it would do a great deal of good to
have a meeting, and it should be held
as soon as convenient to the several
members. It would serve to create
enthusiasm, and that is half the fight.
Now, let each member enter upon the
work in earnest, with a determination
to succeed. The small sum asked of
our county can be raised with very
little effort; and it must beraised. The
richest county in the State in its natu-
ral agricultural resources cannot afford
to be shut out from that great Fair.
We ha ve ample time to prepare a most
creditable display, and The Herald
believes that the enterprise of this
county will insist on a proper repre-
sentation on that occasson.
and Ranch re-
a few weeks past
The Texas Farm
marks: “Within
there has probably been not less than
$250,000 sent out of Texas to pay for
-r“schotarsjiips and contingent expenses
of Texas boys and girls at far away
colleges. The idea that a school is no
account unless it is located in some
other section of the country is humor-
ed by traveling drummers for such
schools who flock to Texas every sum-
mer by hundreds and aid in dessemi-
nating the foolish idea that there is a
peculiar eclat in sending sons and
daughters “off” to school—and the
further off the greater the eclat; and
the less the practical training for the
affairs of life. Texas has a number of
schools and colleges that are equal in
facilities and ability of faculty to any
of those which are every year so en-
ergetically and successfully exploited
are advantages in attending
ols in a country where the future
iof the pupil is to be expended
\Ae \^aiHiot be furnished elsewhere.
A Beaumont special to the Express
reports: What is perhaps the largest
single lumber contract ever let in the
world was to-day closed with the Reli-
ance Lumber Company. It is with
the company which is building the
railroad from Omaha, Neb., to Galves-
ton, Texas. The total amount of the
contract is $8,000,000. The govern-
ment contract for deepening Galveston
harbor is only $6,200,000. Coming at
this time, after a long depression in
the lumber regions of East Texas, and
after the mills have been shut down,
it is a veritable godsend. All the
mills iu East Texas will at once begin
operations, as it will require the entire
milling capacity of Eastern Texas and
Western Louisiana to saw out this
vast amount of lumber. The further
announcement is made that the trans-
portation will be interstate, and the
Texas Railway Commission cannot in-
terfere.
arrivals of immigrants within the
seventy years thus reported was 15,-
641,688—one-fourth of the entire popu-
lation of the United States. The
arrivals of each nationality were as
follows: Germany, 4,551,719;Ireland,
3,501,683; England, 2,460,034; British
North American possessions, 1,029,083;
Norway and Sweden, 943,330; Austria-
Hungary, 464,435; Italy, 414,513; France
370,162; Russia and Poland, 396,353;
Scotland, 329,192; China, 292,578; Swit-
zerland, 174,333; Denmark, 146,237; all
other countries, 606,006. Of the ar-
rivals during the past ten years 3,205,-
911 were males, and 2,040,702 were
females.
The Type Founders’ Trust recently
organized will embrace thirty-four
firms, which, it is stated, includes all
but one or two in the entire United
States. The capital stock is in the
neighborhood of eighteen million dol-
lars, and in forming the syndicate or
trust the same plan was followed as in
the formation of other trusts. A valu-
ation was placed on the stock and the
business done was taken into calcula-
tion, and then the different foundries
will be given stock and cash in pro
rata amounts. The negotiations to
effect the trust have been going on for
about two years. The business and
profits will be pooled. It is expected
that the combination will prevent cuts
in prices. __
The September report of the depart-
ment of agriculture shows a reduction
of six points in the condition of cotton.
An excess of rainfall east of Alabama
and drouth west, except in a few
counties in Texas, is the excuse for the
decline. The most serious complaints
are of shedding fruit and leaves, rot-
ting of bolls, sprouting of seed, rust,
staining of open cotton and worms.
Virginia lost three points, South Caro-
lina two. Georgia four, Florida six,
Alabama six, Mississippi ten, Louis-
iana five, Texas ten, Arkansas nine.
IN ox'th Carolina gained four and Ten-
nessee two points.
A census bulletin states that the
total assessed valuation of real and
personal property in Kansas in 1890,
not including the value of railroad
property,which is placed at$57,866,233,
was $290,593,711. The estimated true
value is between eight and nine hun-
dred millions. It is found that Kan-
sas has a mortgage debt of $235,485,108,
which does not include a State and
railroad laud contract debt of $7,661,-
718. The debt is twenty-seven per
cent of the estimated true value of all
taxed real estate. The average amount
of debt per mortgaged acre is placed
at $6.65.
appointment department, whose sole
work it shall be to keep the New York
collectorship supplied with an incum-
bent.”
There is no place in the United
States where agricultural pursuits pay
better returns on capital and money
invested than in Southwest Texas.
Fortunes will be made in San Patricio
and adjoining counties, by truck farm-
ers and fruit growers. And there is
no better climate anywhere—none
more pleasant or more healthful.
In several of the States—especially
in Alabama, Colorado and Indiana—
the ladies are working faithfully for
the success of the World’s Fair. Let
the lady managers of this State be
equally as vigilant, as active and de-
termined, and their efforts will be
crowned with success. •
the various parts are beginning to ar-
rive at the Long- Wharf, San Francisco,
where it will be set up. It is for the
manufacture of an artificial fuel brick
from coal dust and asphaltum, and if
this process is as successful on this
continent as it has been in Europe, it
will be an enormous saving for the
Southern Pacific. The machinery was
manufactured in England and is being
shipped out there to b6 set up. A
machinist accompanies it and he will
superintend the work. It will be set
up alongside of the coal bunkers on
Long Wharf and the coal dust from
these bunkers will be utilized.
SOUTHWEST TEXAS EDITORS.
A number of wealthy farmers met
last week at St. Paul and incorporated
the Grain Growers’ association with a
capital stock of-$100,000. They said
they were determined to upset the
elevator companies’ monopoly by
building and operating their own ele-
vators.
The Houston Post thinks that Texas
ought to be able to raise the necessary
fund for a creditable exhibit at the
Chicago World’s Fair without any ex-
traordinary exertion. The benefits
Texas will receive from it will repay
many fold the amount invested.
At the city election in Newport,
Rhode Island, last week, the Demo-
crats elected the board of aldermen
and eight out of fifteen councilmen.
Last year the Republicans had the
mayor and majority of the councilmen
and aldermen.
A statement prepared at the Pen-
sion Office shows that during the
month of August, last, 24,478 pension
certificates of all classes were issued,
the first payments of which aggregated
$2,714,483, or an average of $110.80 for
each pensioner.
Perfect health is man’s best and
safest capital. Without health and
strength he has to fight against great
odds. Aransas Harbor is situated in
one of the most healthful sections on
earth; and yet it is sourrouuded by a
country of wonderful fertility. Aran-
sas Harbor, founded one year ago, has
had but two deaths, and the deceased
in each case was an invalid before
coming here. In a region so health-
ful and so fertile one’s chances of suc-
cess are better than in a malarial dis-
trict. These are points which should
be considered in selecting a permanent
home.
Late Austin dispatches report that
the suit of the Gulf, West Texas and
Pacific Railway Company against the
railway commission, to test the con-
struction of the law requiring a rail-
road to run at least one passenger
train a day over its line, has been
postponed to the 23d inst. Several im
portant questions are involved in this
suit, touching the rights of chartered
railroad companies and the power of
the commission, and the trial is there-
fore looked to with no little interest
by the commission, the railroads and
the people.
The San Antonio Express is author-
ity for the following item: “It appears
to have been definitely settled that
Judge Frank B. Earnest will enter the
Democratic convention of the Shoe
string District as a candidate for the
nomination in opposition to the Hon.
W. H. Crain. Mr. Earnest is a lawyer
of great ability, sound Democracy,
strong personal popularity and spot
less character. He will be backed, of
course, by the Webb county delega-
tion and some others. It will be a
very pretty race.”
The Baltimore American remarks :
New York papers are fighting the idea
of Congress loaning the World’s Fail-
five million dollars. Perhaps New
York wants the money to relieve her-
self of the disgrace of the Grant monu-
ment fund.
Homeseekers should investigate
the wonderful advantages of Live Oak
Peninsula. The climate and soil are
specially suited to fruit, vegetables
and poultry, and each of these indus-
tries will pay handsome profits.
There are about seven million
farmers and about fourteen million
voters; but all the farmers do not
belong to the alliances. In fact, not
more than one in seven is an active
member of the new organization..
The Brazilian government intends
to make a magnificent display at the
Chicago Exposition, and will invest
not less than half a million dollars in
carrying out the plans for its repre-
sentation.
The Manufacturers’ Record has es-
tablished an office in London, having
recently sent over a member of its staff"
for that purpose. This step is brought
about by the continued growth of
British interests in Southern invest-
ments and the consequent expansion
of the circulation and influence of
the Manufacturers' Record in Great
Britain. By means of its London con-
nection English investors will be kept
nore thoroughly informed as to the
‘-sources, the invesment opportuni-
s, and the progress of development,
n the South, while the South will be
enabled to keep in touch with financial
London. English investors and finan-
ciers on the one hand, and the owners
of Southern properties and the pro-
jectors of Southern undertakings on
the other, will be brought into closer
contact and made better acquainted.
The New York Republican State
convention, at Rochester, nominated
the following ticket: For governor,
J. Sloat Fassett; lieutenant governor,
John W. Vrooman; secretary of state!
Eugene F. O’Connor; state treasurer,
Ira M. Hedges; comptroller, A. C.
Wade; attorney general, William E.
Sutherland; state engineer, Verplanck
Colvin. The platform endorses the
administration of President Harrison,
asserts the beneficial results of reci-
procity and the protective tariff, and
endorses the views of the administra-
tion on the financial question.
A census bulletin gives the immi-
gration into the United States from
1820 to 1890. The total number of
The Rockport Beacon says: Senator
Coke, Representatives Abbott and
Killgore,. Gov. Hogg and Ex-Gov.
Ireland have been here this summer
and they will all give the same testi-
mony, which is, that each and all of
them are astonished at the grand
natural advantages of Aransas Pass
and Aransas Harbor. After personal
inspection these representative men
have come to see the natural advan-
tages of our highly favored locality.
A Fort Worth special says that
Judge Michael L. Lynch, of the rail-
way building firm of Hurley, Tierley
& Lynch, of that city, and who is vice-
president of the Southern Civil Engi-
neers’Association, and consulting en-
gineer of many water works and
bridge systems in the State, was on
Saturday appointed by President Hur-
ley as chief of the department of ma-
chinery and railways for Texas at the
World’s Columbian Exposition.
The’ Eagle Pass Guide says that
Dick Duncan’s respite will cost Texas
and Maverick county, in all, about
$1,400 or $1,500. The Guide adds:
“The people of Brackettville and Kin-
ney county, many of whom were
witnesses in the Duncan ease, are
highly incensed at the governor’s ap-
parently groundless postponement of
that murderer’s doom.”
The Pilot Point Post-Mirror says
Dr. A. M. Ragland has a pear tree
which was planted in February, 1890,
which bore two well developed pears
this year. The tree is the “Mikado,”
a Jajiauese variety, and is the first of
this variety ever fruited in Texas.
Since the nomination of J. Sloat
Fassett, collector of the port of New
York, as a candidate for governor of
that State, the Baltimore American
remarks : “Perhaps, after awhile, the
government will inaugurate a new
According to a census bulletin, re-
cently issued, the population of the
State of Pennsylvania in 1880 was
4,282,891, and in 1890 was 5,258,014, an
increase of 975,123, or 22.77 per cent.
Negotiations are pending to re-
store the Western Union wires to the
floor of the Chicago board of trade,
which were removed some time since
in the war on the bucket shops.
Their Association Organized at Rock-
port Last Week.
In response to a call recently issued
by Mr. J. P. Bridges, of the Luling
Signal, a number of the Southwest
Texas editors met at Rockport, at 9:30
p.m., September 11, for the purpose of
organizing the Southwest Texas Edi-
torial Association.
Hon. R. H. Wood, mayor of Rock-
port, had extended a cordial invitation
to all visiting editors and their
friends, and when the party arrived at
the depot that night they were met by
a delegation of citizens and escorted to
the Aransas Hotel, where an address
of welcome was delivered by Judge
M. J. Hathaway, of that city. To this
welcoming address Mr. Bridges re-
sponded on behalf of the editors.
After effecting a temporary organ-
ization, with Mr. J. P. Bridges as
chairman, and the appointment of
regular committees, an adjournment
was had till Saturday morning, in or-
der that the visitors might attend the
ball which had been given in their
honor.
Pursuant to adjournment the con-
vention met Saturday morning, and
effected permanent organization by
electing the following officers for the
ensuing six months:
J. P. Bridges, president; Charles
Culmore, first vice-president; T. R.
Atkins, second vice-president; Judge
J. C. Wilson, third vice-president;
Lee J. Rountree, secretary; W. B.
Stephens, treasurer, and D. C. Beach,
Albert Bracht, Major E. M. Fly, E. T.
Lehmann and G. A. McNaughton,
standing committee.
The following were enrolled as char-
ter members : J. P. Bridges, Luling
Signal; Charles Culmore, Houston
National Reformer; T. R. Atkins,
Skidmore Pioneer; Judge J. C. Wilson,
Bad Results of This Practice Pointed
Out By Mr. George (J. Bow.
OUR GRANDFATHERS’ IEIH00S ILL NOT PUT
One Acre of Well-Tilled Land Better
Than Three or Pour Cultivated in
the Old Slipshod Way.
Hon. S. B. Maxey, ex-United States
Senator, is now a prominent candidate
for the vacancy on the Interstate Com-
merce Commission, created by the
death of Gen. Bragg.
Karnes Reporter; Lee J. Rountree,
Kyle Star-Vindicator; W. B. Ste-
phens, Luling Herald; D. L. Beach,
Gonzales Inquirer; Albert Bracht,
Aransas Pass New Era; Major E. M.
Fly, Aransas Pass Beacon; E. T. Leh-
mann, Yoakum Graphic; G. A. Mc-
Naughton, Hays County Times; H. M.
Brown, Beevil\e Picayune; JeffMcLe-
more, Corpus Christi Gulf News; J. T.
Willett, Corpus Christi Caller; W. A.
Wright, Blanco News, and J. R. Mc-
Gee, Yoakum Graphic.
By-laws and constitution were adopt-
ed, the constitution differing but little
from that of the State Press Associa-
tion.
Several letters were read from edi-
tors who could not be present, but
who wished to become members, and
several editors arrived to help swell
the ranks.
A committee was appointed to look
into foreign advertising and report at
the next meeting, to be held at Luling
in about six months.
Hon. R. H. Wood, mayor of Rock-
port, was elected an honorary member
of the association, after which an ad-
journment was taken in order that the
association might go to Aransas Har-
bor, where they were welcomed and
given an elegant banquet at 6 o’clock
p. m.
Mayor Wood and wife, Capt. A. J.
Peeler and Capt. Jack Elgin accom-
panied the editorial party to Aransas
Harbor.
Luling was selected as the place for
holding the next meeting of the asso-
ciation.
EARNING A LIVING.
The Arkansas World’s Fair com-
mittee has sent to every county in
Arkansas asking for subscriptions on
the basis of three-tenths of a mill on
all taxable property.
A census bulletin gives the popu-
lation of the State of Missouri in 1890
as 2,679,184. In 1880 it was 2,108,380,
an increase of 510,804, or 23.56 per cent.
William E. Powell, a negro school
teacher in the service of the Camden
board of education, has been tendered
the post of consul to San Domingo.
The Florida Agriculturist says that
during the month of July 6,787 barrels
of pears were shipped from Florida to
the Northern markets.
A syndicate of European capital-
ists has offered to advance the Chilian
junta <£500,000 to meet
quirements.
necessary re-
An automatic car coupler has been
tested at Greenville, Texas, and pro-
nounced satisfactory.
The Grady monument at Atlanta,
Ga., will be unveiled on the 31st of
October.
The Beeville Picayune will issue
special edition at an early date.
The cotton crop of 1890-91 is official-
ly estimated at 8,652,597 bales.
ARTIFICIAL FUEL.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Experi-
menting in Its Manufacture.
Railway Register.
The Southern Pacific has had a seri-
ous problem to solve, in the matter of
obtaining a proper and cheap fuel for
the locomotives. There is no large
bed of coal in California that could
furnish a supply of proper fuel suffi-
cient for its use and there have been
spent many thousands of dollars, says
the San Fiancisco Lumberman, in try-
ing to open up coal mines on the side
of Mount Diable, at Carbondale and
lone, in Corral Hollow and elsewhere,
but without success. The coal now
used comes mostly from Victoria, and
is brought to West Oakland in steam-
ers built especially for the trade, and
from West Oakland the coal is sent
over the road.
Coal is by far the largest item of ex-
pense that the Southern Pacific is call-
ed upon to stand, and the company
has now turned its attention to the
manufacture of artificial fuel. A plant
has been purchased in England, and
Some of the Reasons Why a Woman
Should Not Be Compelled to Do it.
Boston Budget.
A contributor to the current number
of Kate Field’s Washington asserts:
“I do not believe that a woman should
under any circumstances have to earn
her own living; and, further, that the
modern idea that it is a suitable or
even praiseworthy thing for her to do
so, is bad political economy, bad morals
and bad sociology.”
To the utilitarians who conceive of
life as arranged primarily as a place
for exertion, and especially to that
class of enterprising persons who
plume themselves upon discovering or
inventing “new occupations for wo-
men”—usually most repulsive and un-
interesting ones, it must be added—
this bit of heresy will appear as a
species of social dynamite. There is
no question, however, but that many
persons, as yet unperverted by ad-
vanced” sentiments, will not' only
agree with the writer, but even extend
and enlarge her proposition by the as-
sertion that no one, man or woman
should earn a living at all.
It is a process that diverts one’s en-
ergy from the more praisworthy occu-
pation of enjoying life. It is a hin-
derauces to the developments of a tal-
ent for leisure. Instead of regardino-
life as designed to live, it is regarded
as a mere period in which to fall to
and earn a living. This is a low and
debasing view, and one quite unworthy
the coming century.
In an ideal state of society no indi-
vidual will fall under any such low
obligation. Food, clothing and shel-
ter, the mere necessities of existence,
should, in an ideal republic, be pro-
vided for each individual by the State,
and his time and talents be liberated
for such pursuits as the higher mathe-
matics or the comprehension of the
significance in Browning’s lyric inspi-
rations, the etymological analysis of
George Meredith, the relation of War-
ner music-dreams to culture, or the
relation of Ibsen’s ideas to moral pro-
gress. No less an authority than Mr
Darwin announced that science and
domestic affections were enouo-h to
occupy man, and Prof. Jowett has
discovered that adequate attention to
the Greek accent would of itself re-
quire the exclusive devotion of a life-
time.
Indeed, when one contemplates all
there is to do in the world, to say
nothing of all there is to enjoy he
wonders that any portion of mankind
should ever fall into the stupid and
erronsous idea of was ting life by spend-
it in earning a living.
Prof. J. P. Stelle, in Fort Worth Gazette.
Mr. George Q,. Dow, well known by
reputation to all readers of agricul-
tural literature, writes that farmers
all over the country, and particularly
all over the South, are, as a rule, at-
tempting to cultivate too large an
acreage for their means. This, in his
opinion, is why we hear so much to
the effect that farming don’t pay. In
the days of our grandfathers, before
soils had been worn down as at pres-
ent, and before there was any particu-
lar competition relative to agricultural
products, it was all well enough for
the farmer to possess many acres and
cultivate them in a slovenly kind of
way, but the present days are not the
days of our grandfathers. The times
are very different now. The farmer
who now follows the old methods of
our grandfathers will be left, every
time, and will help to swell the ranks
of those men who are constantly wail-
ing over the failure of farming to pay.
It must be admitted that many
farmers are slow to see the changes
that have taken place. They decline
to accept new ideas, and hence remain
about one generation behind the pres-
ent times so far as relates to progress.
It takes the sou a greater portion of
his life to discover that the careful
training his father gave him, and
methods his father had in force in his
day, are not adapted to the present,
which fact, could he have realized it
in his youth or when he began to
farm, would have been worth very
much to him in the way of dollars and
cents as a result of his labors.
The grandfathers often operated
farms of two and three hundred acres.
A large portion of it, to be sure, may
have been woodland and pastures, but
the feed in these was plentiful and
rich, which afforded feed for a large
number of cattle in summer, and it re-
quired little cultivation to produce
hay enough to carry the stock through
winter. . But many of those old farms
are now worn to thinness, and were
this otherwise they would not pay if
operated to-day as our grandfathers
operated them.
Notwithstanding all these facts
there is still plenty of good money to
be made at farming, but it must be
farming conducted on a modern plan.
It must be good farming under the
direct supervision of the proprietor.
It must not be on the slip-shod prin-
ciple. To admit of this better farming
under the proprietor’s personal super-
vision the farms must not be so large
as formerly; the large, old style farms
must be reduced to that number of
acres that one man can afford to culti
vate in the most thorough and improv-
ed manner—not skip over it, plowing
up a piece here and there, planting so
much land that you cannot half culti-
vate it, picking over three acres of
land for one bale of cotton, mowing
over three acres of ground to get a ton
of poor hay, driving over and into
open ditches or wet bog holes in your
field, your fences only half built for
lack of time, and as a consequence an-
mals in on the crops destroying them,
to say nothing of the travel required
by your teams and men in getting
from one job to another on such a farm.
Stop all this at once, is Mr. Dow’s ad-
vice, and cut the size of your farm
down one-half, two-thirds—yes, even
nh>e-tenths, or until you can get it
within the bounds of your ability to
care for it in first-class shape.
You hate to give up this field or that,
and think you will get what you can
from it once more,-and so you go on.
Cut it off from your farm—sell it, if
possible—and get it off your mind. If
there is no market for it, you can let
it grow up to bushes and take a rest.
Then, continues Mr. Dow, concentrate
all your thoughts, energies, labor, etc.,
upon your smaller acreage under cul-
ture, and no matter what line of farm-
ing you may adopt, you will soon real-
ize that your farm is paying you better
than it ever did before, and that all
your land is inproving in condition
from year to year. Under this energy
associated with correct management,
you will have as many bales of cotton
for sale as you had before, as many
bushels of corn for home use and your
barn will be just as full of hay, and
better hay than it ever was. In a
word, you can make a single acre of
your well-tilled and well-managed
land yield you more than three or four
acres yield you under the old methods.
Concentration is the order of the
age—iu that magic word lies the secret
of successful farming. Of course a
man or a syndicate with immense
means might make money farming on
a large scale, but the farmer who ex-
pects his farm to pay its own way as
it goes, had best draw in his acreage
lA Olinlv Cm avi-nni- ci nr 111 ^ L1 L •
tudes, the men working about, the
white row of tents far back—away in
the distance the merest flutter of dres-
ses in groups gathered from around to
behold breathless that awful conflict.
Here, just iu front, General Mansfield
rides ahead of his staff—nearby lies a
dead, riderless horse. At his hand
almost is a little negro cabin with its
roof blazing, a poor mark for the great
bombs, its habitants near in poses of
grotesque horror. All about are- the
sad incidents of war; here a sailor
streatched prone on the sand, there
another rescued tells his tale to a knot
of interested soldiers. Men are hur-
rying with stretchers; a bomb bursts
over one rescuing|party and one bearer
of the stretcher staggers back mortal-
ly struck. There is an odd mingling
of heroic and homely details; a sharp-
shooter kneels with his gleaming riAe
ready to fire; an old darky in the road
below wheels along a barrow filled
with various articles for the wounded
—so the pictured tale runs.
Out in the water is centered the in-
terest of the whole. The Monitor is
barely seen, her turret darkly defined
in the dense white clouds wrapping
her, the fire from her guns piercing
them; close by lies the Merrimac, her
smoke-stack belching fire and smoke,
and fiery torrents pouring from her
guns on either side. To the left the
Cumberland is sinking, but all her
flags flying, a living mass of blue
crowding on her deck and down into
the boats. On the other side are the
Confederate gunboats and the Minne-
sota, and to the right the Congress
settling down, flames bursting forth
from all parts, the sailors climbing-
from their mad clutch, clustering
thickly on parts yet afloat and untouch-
ed by flames, and letting themselves
down one by one into the water. Some
ars swimming for dear life, some
clutching at life-lines thrown from the
shore, some are struck in the water by
the flying balls, and some float, past
all help, amid their living comrades.
Thick and black the huge volumes of
smoke roll up from the burning Con-
gress, the glare of the fiery mass seem-
ing brighter by contrast and making
darker the figures struggling all about
in the water, presenting a picture of
ruin and desolation difficult to describe,
but horribly real to see.
In this cyclorama one gets a vivid
idea of that great battle, which has
been so often described by tongue and
pen, and yet which this more forcibly
impresses than the greatest eloquence
of either, for it is true, as the poet says,
“things seen are mightier than things
heard.”
WATERING PLANTS.
to such an extent as will enable him
to get out of every square foot of sur-
face all there is in it.
Some Useful Hints on the Subject From a
Government Gardener.
“People frequently ask, ‘How often
should I water my plants?’ ” said Chief
Gardener Saunders, of the Department
of Agriculture, to a reporter the other
day. “To begin with, never apply
water to a plant until it requires it,
that is, until it is dry, and then apply
a sufficient quantity to soak it.
“Novices in plant culture usually
make the mistake of merely sprinkling
the surface of the soil, perhaps daily,
without any time applying enough
water to saturate the mass. Plants
cannot flourish under such conditions;
the surface will appear wet, while the
main body of the soil is hard and dry.
One draw back to properly watering
plants in parlor window gardening
arises from inconvenience attending
the use of water in sufficient quantities-
another evil is the dryness of the air!
“Both of these obstacles to success
can be greatly modified by the use
of a table properly fitted for the recep-
tion of the flower pots or small vessels
in which the plants are kept. This
table may be of any required size; a
surface of two by three feet would be
suitable for most windows; it should
be made tight and neatly fitted. A
ledge is made by fastening a strip
three inches wide around the edge
then fill with two inches of clean
white sand, upon which the plants are
placed. Lining the table with zinc
would completely guard against drip.
The table should be fitted with rollers
to faciliate the operation of watering
and cleaning the plants. With a
table of this kind the plants can be
watered freely and occasionally sprink-
led without an injury to surrounding
objects. The sand should be kept
I INTERE8I 10 WOMEN
A Funny Article Written Under Ad-
verse Circumstances.
ADVICE TO GIRLS WHO WOULD MARRY IN HASTE
A. Nation of Neat Women.—Preserving-
Flowers.—General and Per-
sonal Notes.
Bab.
“My saddest hour,” said a small
woman whose newspaper work is
known far and wide, “I’ll tell it to
you.”
“My husband was dying. He was 28
years old and I was 19, and we were
strangers in a strange land. Because
we were so poor I had been doing
some odd sketches here and there for
the newspapers, for gentle people
don’t beg they work. I was sitting
beside the bed side of my husband, ex-
pecting every hour that the breath
would go from his body, when a mes-
sengei came from an office down town
with the request that I would write
them a funny article of about one
thousand words ! I looked at my hus-
band, and then, God help me, I looked
at my purse, and I concluded I had to
write that article. So, while the boy
waited, I held my dying love’s hand
with my left one and wrote with my
right. And wrote a funny article. I
was abouLan hour and a half doin"- it,
and when I think of it now I see those
two dark brown eyes looking- at mein
an inquiring way. I see that messen-
£er boy waiting* with an expression
that was half ciiriosity, half sympathy
on his face* and I see myself with
tears rolling down my face, working
out the funny article.
“Weeks after that, when I was all
draped in mourning, and the man
loved slept that quiet sleep which
knows no present awakening, I met
the editor of that paper, and he said
to me : ‘That article of yours was fun-
ny enough to kill,’ and I said, ‘Was
it? Well, it nearly did.’ But to this
day he doesn’t know under what cir-
cumstances it was written, and the
$25 I got for it went to help get a rest
ing place for the one I loved.”
MERRIMAC AND MONITOR.
The Largest Gold Coin.
Interview with a Numismatist.
The largest gold coin now in circu-
lation is said to be the gold ingot, or
A Vivirt Picture of the Great Naval Bat-
tle of 1863.
Baltimore American.
The “Merrimac and Monitor Naval
Battle,” whose exhibition opens to-day
at the Cyclorama Building, Mount
Royal and Maryland avenues, gives
on a fine scale a comprehensive view
of the most interesting naval battle of
modern times, if not in the history of
the world.
This famous battle was fought in
Hampton Roads, off" Fort Monroe, in
the spring of 1862, and was begun by
the attack of the Confederate iron-clad
Merrimac upon the Federal men-of-
war Congress, Cumberland, Minneso-
ta, Roanoke and St. Lawrence, end-
ing in the burning of the Congress,
the sinking of the Cumberland and
the rout of the others, the Minnesota
also being fired.
The scene of this famous battle as
here presented is vividly life-like-
star tlingly so to those unaccustomed
to the carnage and horrors of war.
On one side of the great cycle is the
green stretch of level wooded land,
parted here and there by clear creeks;
The sand
constantly wet, so that moisture will
be evaporated from it, and thus over-
come in some degree one of the chief
obstacle to the successful culture of
plants in dwelling rooms—a dry
atmosphere.
“There are a few general rules with
regard to watering giants which may
be noted. Watering should be prefer-
ably applied during the early part of
the day, especially so in the winter
season. Plants in pots well supplied
with roots will require much more
water than those which are newly pot-
ted or have a quantity of soil with a
few roots. Plants with narrow or
small foliage will not use so much wa-
ter as those with large spreadino-
leaves. Plants in the shade will noli
need so much water as those in the
sun. But in eases when water is ap-
plied it should be done copiously.
“In the pot culture of plants,
where the amount of soil is limited,
the use of liquid manure is of vast
service when judiciously applied, but
much harm may be occasioned by its
indiscriminate use. Many persons
consider it necessary to resort to the
use of guano and other solutions on
sickly plants, and are surprised to find
that the application only hastens the
dissolution of the patient.
“It is only healthy and well rooted
plants that are to be benefited bv ma-
nures, and such as are supplied" with
hungry roots but growing slowly for
want of nutriment. Such plants as
have been for years in the same spot
or tub, as we frequently find orange
and lemon trees, eamelias, oleanders
etc., will be greatly stimulated by the
application of manurial liquids during
their period of growth. For plants of
all kinds that have their pots filled
with roots it will be serviceable, and
to such as fuchsias, pelargoniums, cin-
eraries, etc., while iu flower; they will
bloom longer and in greater perfection.
But it should be kept in mind that
stimulants should not be applied while
flower buds are forming, as it might
induce an increased wood growth0 at
the expense of the flowering principle.”
Go Slow, Girls !
New York Herald.
Scarcely a day passes without its
newspaper story of some young woman
who met a man so interesting that
she thought she could not live with-
out him; so she married him in haste
and afterwards learned that he was an
ex-convict or a brute or already had
wife or two from whom he had separ-
ated without the formality of a legal
divorce.
In such cases the blame is laid upon
the man, who generally deserves more
abuse than he gets. But girls, look
at the matter seriously a few minutes
and see if the trouble might not have
been avoided if you had not been in
too much of a hurry.
Marriage means partnership for life;
decrees of divorce are merely excep-
tions that prove the rule. Would any
man enter into a business partnership
with as little knowledge of the other
party as you seem satisfied with ?
Well, no—not unless he were a sweet
souled lunatic.
Talk is cheap, girls; it can be made
to order as fast as tongues can run,
especially when there is a pretty face
to inspire it and two willing ears to
receive it.
Don’t fear that some other girl will
get the fellow unless you secure him
at once. A fish that anyone can catch
isn’t worth throwing a line for. Play
him to find out whether he amounts
to anything. If lie becomes impatient
and dashes away, why, follow Dog-
berry and thank God that you’re rid
of a knave.
Neatest Women in the World.
Somebody who has traveled exten-
sively has been talking in a Denver
paper about American women, who,
he declares, are the neatest the world
over. As a rule, they like to be neat
and clean for the comfort of it, though
they are sometimes found to become
slatterns when placed where they be-
lieve themselves unknown, and there-
fore free from criticism. He goes on
to say : “The habit of neatness or its
opposite is an interesting study in
women. The characteristic naturally
exists just the same in men, but the
circumstances governing their lives
are such as do not bring out this phase
in such pronounced fashion. I don’t
doubt but that some of the greatest
slatterns on earth are men, but they
are seldom found out, you know. If
you are sufficiently intimate with a
gentleman to gain access to his apart-
ment you will soon have a very excel-
lent method of judging of his habits.
If you find his brushes full of hair
and lint, his towels and soiled clothes
kicking about everywhere, with a
bowl of dirty water always on his
washstand, you may easily judge that
he will go out in the street with
grease-spots on his clothes and half-
soiled linen on.
“loof,” of Anam, a French colony in
eastern Asia. It is a flat round gold ■ on the other lies the blue water trail-
piece, and on it is written in India ink quilly rippling and gleaming with its
its value, which is about $220. The
next sized coin to this valuable but
extremely awkward one is the
“obang,” of Japan, which is worth
about $55; and next comes the “ben-
da,” of Ashantee, which represents a
value of about $40. The California$50
gold piece is worth about the same as
the “benda.” The heaviest silver coin
in the world also belongs to Anam,
where the silver ingot is worth about
$15; then comes the Chinese “tael” and
then the Austrian double thaler.
varying currents, both land and water
expressing a peace and calm strongly
at variance with the scenes of bloody
strife taking place upon them. One
sees real earth, real cannon, real
stretchers, foot-bridges, cabin, and so
clever is the illuison, and so excellent
the painting, that it is impossible al-
ways to tell where the reality ceases
and the imitation begins. Here are
the fortifications thrown up, the
mounted cannon, the officers with
glass at eye bending in intent atti-
A Woman’s Powers.
All the Year Round.
The talent of dissimulation is in wo-
man a fair equivalent for the gift of
strength. Brute force wins a way in
the world after its kind; intrigue has
to struggle along in the wake of this
apparently superior power. Often
indeed, the latter trips the former and
usurps its position in the race. There’s
no need to tell how Delilah sheared
Samson of his locks, or how the small
mouse was able to do more than the
lordly lion could.
We see it, too, iu the commonest
phases of everyday life. In the pov-
erty stricken houses of the East End,
where tragedy is always brewing be-
cause misery there sogreatly abounds,
who bears calamity the better—the
man or the woman ? Why surely, as
a rule, the woman. And yet she does
not feel it less than her husband. Her
capacity for dissimulation is here a
distinct blessing. It enables her often
to comfort the man when he is at that
last stage in the drama of ruin—hesi-
tant only between Waterloo bridge or
the razor which a malcontent tempter
has put within reach of his hand.
Her gift as a poser makes her a
ministering angel to man, even though
she may at the heart be suffering tor-
ture beyond the power of words to
describe.
A Way to Preserve Flowers.
To preserve delicate flowers take
very fine sand, wash it perfectly clean,
and when dry, sift it through a fine
sieve into a pan. When the sand is
deep enough to hold the flowers in an
upright position take some more sifted
sand and carefully cover them. A
spoon is a good thing to take for this,
as it fills iu every nook and cranny
without bending or breaking the
leaves. When the pan is filled solid-
ly leave the flowers to dry for several
days. It is a good plan to warm the
sand in the oven before using it, as the
flowers will then dry more thoroughly.
In taking the sand off"great care must
be taken not to break the leaves, as
they are now dry and brittle.
Pansies preserved in this way will
keep their shape and brilliancy or
color all winter, and many other flow-
ers can be equally successfully treat-
ed—anything, in fact, where the full
pressure of the sand comes on both
sides of the leaf, otherwise they will
shrivel. Ferns when preserved in this
way have a more natural look than
when pressed, and the maiden-hair
fern looks almost as well as when it is
freshly gathered.
health, physically, althc
very childish, and almost
a walk of almost a mile.
A lady living near New
has paid the rent of a larg
pensive place entirely by he:
management of the hot horn
Mrs. Amelia E. Barr, th
novelist, has been the moth<
children, and has only of
discovered her ability to wi
Lady Harris, wife of tht
of Bombay, is an excellent cricketer,
and was captain of the winning eleven
in a recent cricket match.
Valma Parlaghy has received an
order for a life-size portrait of the em-
press of Germany. She is probably
the most noted portrait painter in
Germany.
Miss Annee Tourgee, daughter of
the author of “A Fool’s Errand,” was
awarded the $50 gold medal offered
by George W. Childs, of Philadelphia,
at the school of design for women, for
excellence in illustration.
Mrs. R. A. Green, for several years
the recording secretary of the W. C.
T. U. at Honolulu, will attend the
World’s W. C. T. U. convention next
November in Boston, as a delegate
from the Hawaiian Islands auxiliary.
Louisa, the lovely queen of Prussia,
pinned her tresses with a star and let
them fly again windward about her
cheeks; the fascinating Mme. Roland,
whose dark, and serious, changing eye
no artist could paint, pulled her shock
of brown hair within an inch of her
eyebrows and bound it with a fillet.
A face artist declares that Bernhardt
is the greatest judge of powder of any
woman in the world. She tests the
quality of powder by taking a pinch
of the cosmetic between her fingers,
crushing it to find out its quality pinch
by pinch.
Marion Harland is a large woman of
matronly appearance, somewhat above
medium height. She has a brown
complexion, black hair that is begin-
ning to turn gray, and a broad fore-
head. She began to write stories
when a child of six.
The widow of Hannibal Hamlin was
his second wife and was the half sister
of his first wife. The present Mrs.
Hamlin was married to her step-
brother-in-law in 1856, and lived with
him in Washington for twenty years.
Among the hints on cooking veget^
bles a lecturer advises the
little sugar in the water in which
is boiled, instead of salt, wliiclj, '
eus and shrivels the vegetal
GEN. FREM
The Pioneer’s CI
Mexican
San Fra
Just before th
Obispo the men
been subjected fc
to privation and )
and their hatred
reached its heig„..
pretty clearly understood that if any
of the enemy was unfortunate enough
to fall into their hands they would
spend but little time or sentiment in
disposing of him.
On Dec. 15, two days after the taking
of the town, the pickets captured Don
Jose de Jesu Pico, who was called
Totci. He was tried by court martial
on the charge of breaking his parole,
was found guilty and was sentenced
to be shot. The fact that Pico was a
leader rendered him still more an ob-
ject of hatred and distrust, and on
every side were heard murmurs of ap-
proval when it was decided that he
should pay the penalty of his treach-
ery with his life.
The execution was ordered for half
past 10 o’clock in the morning, and at
10 o’clock the whole battalion was or-
dered to parade on the plaza, where
the execution was to take place. TIul
prisoner was confined in a room in thef
Mission. Fremont, with two or three
of his officers, was present, awaiting
the coming of the prisoner’s family to
take their last farewell of the beloved
husband and father. The prisoner,
with bowed head, was seated on one
side, and opposite stood Fremont with
folded arms and face unmoved from
its usual stern demeaner.
The officers in grim silence were
grouped about when the wife, with her
eight or nine young children, entered
dressed in the deepest mourning. The
wife was a beautiful woman of stately
bearing, and the children of delicate
and refined appearance. No word
was uttered to break the silence, which
had grown oppressive. Then the chil-
dren fell upon their knees, and with
tearful eyes and outstretched hands
mutely begged for the life so dear to
them.
Among the officers present was that
stern soldier, Capt. Richard Owens,
who had never feared a living foe, but
whose eyes were then dimmed with
tears at the pathetic sight before him.
Suddenly, for he could no longer con-
trol himself, he uttered the one word,
“Colonel!” Fremont’s face relaxed
its determined expression, and ex-
claimed, “Yes, Dick, I know we had
rather meet a thousand of them in
the field to-morrow than take this one
life.” Turning to the prisoner he said,
you are pardoned; you are free.”
The prisoner fell upon his knees at .
Iremont’s feet and pressed the hem of J
his cloak to his lips, exclaiming brok-U
enly in Spanish : “My life was forfeitJ
you have given it back, and hence
forth it shall be devoted to you.” In
stantly Pico ordered that his horse h
saddled, and from that day on ther
was no more devoted follower of Fre
mont throug-h danger of any kind thai
the man whose life he had given bad
to him.
GOOD NAVAL OFFICERS WANTED
Reports
Wliat Women Are Doing.
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer an-
nounces in her lectures that there are
to-day 40,000 girls in the colleges of
America.
Miss Marie Louise Blaine, niece of
Secretary Blaine, has been appointed
clerk in the United States land office
at Helena, Mont.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has
been recommended to the President,
by various women’s organizations, for
a place in the new national immigra-
tion board.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe com-
pleted her eightieth year on the 14th
of June. Mrs. Stowe retains excellent
Are to Be Made on Special
Aptitudes—The Order.
On the 11th inst., Secretary Tracy
issued an order intended to put in
practice the system adopted in the
army a year ago of ascertaining peri-
odically the fitness of officers for their
various professional duties, the inten-
tion being to enable the Naval Depart-
ment to assign officers to discharge
the functions for which they may
show special aptitude.
The reports on the fitness of officers
are to be made on the last of June and
December each year, and whenever
officers are detached from service or
transferred. Flag officers command-
ing squadrons are to report on the
members of their personal staff" and on
captains of ships, captains of ships on
officers under their command, and
commanders
staffs, on caj
all officers u
attached to s
distinguishej
valor and d
made at any t
or marked* ii
made the subjt
The reports a
eight questions l
in command afloa
to command. M^nu<<i \_*i jjciiuruiiug
duties. General conduct. Sobriety.
Health. Condition and efficiency of
command. If any special duty’has
devolved upon him, state its nature
and how it was performed. Remarks.
In the case of all other officers, there
are ten inquiries, as follows : Profes-
sional ability. Attention to duty
Generai conduct. Sobriety. Health.
Efficiency of men under his special
control. If any special duty has de-
volved upon him, state its nature and
how it was performed. If he has in
any way gone beyond the require-
ments of ordinary routine, state the
direction and the extent. Ability
shown as a linguist or translator (state
languages). Remarks.
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