The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1889 Page: 2 of 4
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Entered at the postofflee at Albany, Texas, as
second-class mail matter.
T. E. STREIGHT, )
> Editors and Proprietors.
G. P. BARBER, )
G. P. BARBER,
MANAGER.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
§2.00 per ANNUM.
F. P. Clark has been appointed
Collector of Customs at El Paso. It
is said there were only twenty-one as-
pirants for that position.
The management of the Dallas
Fair Association are making prepara-
tions for half a million guests, and
Secretary Cour says he will have to
make more preparations if the interest
continues to increase. The county
that fails to have an exhibit at this
.
great fair will do so to its sorrow.
......
Any of the citizens of the North and
East who thiilk they would like to lo-
cate in Shackelford county, if was not
for the pastures, should not stand
#-■
back, as the “pasture” excuse is an
j excuse no longer. The pasture men
■
jot our county offer to cut their lands
fin t > suitable tracts for purchasers,
and sell them at regular market
j prices
vL - . '
The general executive board of the
Knights of Labor will convene in reg-
Ufa*’ business session at St. Louis Sep-
tember 30 to adjudicate all matters re-
l'ating to the cg-der in Missouri, Arkan-
sas, Texas, the Indian Territory and
southern Kansas. General Master
Workman Powderly will be present
and will deliver a series of lectures
1
P?%' while there.
While the Republican whoopers at
the North are bursting with indigna-
tion at the fact that negroes on South-
ern railroads are provided with sepa-
rate cars from those occupied by the
whites, they have not a word of pro-
test against the fact that a daughter of
a Southern negro ex-Governor was
“frozen” out of the ballroom of the
Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga a few
nights ago. The gathering in the ball-
room was not of persons specially in-
vited, but was made up as such wate-
ing place balls usually are, of the
j guests stopping in the hotel.
The young lady in question is beau-
tiful and accomplished and above all
moral reproach, and so slightly tinted
with negro blood that she would have
passed muster among whites almost
anywhere in the matter of color. In
spite, however, of all the facts in her
favor, the single circumstance of race
created in. a crowded assemblage in a
Northern State a sentimeut that im-
mediately culminated in outward ex-
pressions which at once convinced the
unfortunate lady that she was an ob-
ject of most unfriendly observation on
the part of the people gathered there.
That she was not an intruder is
evidenced by the fact that she was a
guest of the hotels and it goes without
saying that her dress and manners
were in every way proper and suited
to the occasion. Why, then, do not
the whoopers-up of race equality drop
the Southern outrage business for a
moment and open the vials of their
ty-
The state treasurer, in obedience to
an act of the last session of the legis-
lature, has stamped all the bonds and
coupons held by special funds “non-
transferable. This places some $7,-
000,000 of securities absolutely be-
yond the cupidity of Canada and Mex-
ico tourists, though without this pre-
caution there was no danger while
either Lubbock or Wortham held the
combination.
John watts, a colored man, who
resides in the Brazos valley eight
miles below Waco, was bitten in the
arm by a full-grown rattlesnake this
week while working in his corn field.
He took a tie above the wound, gal-
loped to town and drank a pint of good
Tennessee whiskey, wnich appears to
have effected a cure. Watts says a
snake bite is not nearly so serious a
thing as he thought it was.
The city council of Weatherford
has adopted resolutions providing that
hereafter all. manufacturing concerns
employing twenty-five hands shall be
exempt from taxation on improve-
ments placed on property for a period
of ten years. This was done to en-
courage manufactories to locate there.
It will be a great benefit to Weather-
ford’s interests, as few cities extend
such courtesies to capitalists who wish
to invest.
petrated in a Northern center of civili-
zation and enlightenment? Where
are Cable and all the rest of the theo-
retical race equalizers and miscegena-
tion romanticists ? It is only in the
South that race separation and social
selection are crimes. ,
Rain has fell all over the State in
such quantities that it has caused great
damage.
THE GREAT LONDON STRIKE.
dook-
prom-
- The Breckinridge Texan has con-
cluded to throw off its patent fraud and
print the paper all at home. We
congratulate the Texan and hope that
it will be a bright star to its town.
An all home print paper is admired by
every reading person, a patent one,
vice versa. Bro. Texan we extend
you our right hand of home journal-
ism and hope that you may live long
in the cause.
The Philadelphia Inquirer in a doub-
le-leaded editorial advises the south to
put away its pistols and other arms.
Just about the time the Inquirer edi-
tor was chewing his pencil in the la-
bor of producing the article four mur-
derers were being swung from the
scaffold in New York for murdering
women. Two committed their crimes
with pistols and the other two with a
convenient hatchet and pistol. The
lectures to the south daily doled out
by the northern press would be amus-
ing if they, were not so moist with the
saliva of hypocrisy.—[Dallas News.
*A
The Indianapolis Journal says:
railroad superintendent yesterday re-
marked that he had given considerable
attention to looking into the cause of
so many collisions o>f late, and he
lj that they were in a large meas-
ue to the overworking of train
^ d .tellers with inferior ones,
few dollars
would work for a
Hi takes the position that
who
less,
road
Rflueii does a good business there
:)>■;• lid be three sets of train dispatch-
vhich would make the time of
. ,ee of each set of men eight hours,
to mi-
ll that they should be given
and ! hat,severe punishment await-
m when there was atijUbarekss-
. The strike of laborers in the
yards of London which at first
ised to be but a small affair, has dur-
ing the past week assumed very for-
midable proportions. The strike has
now extended so as to include all the
laborers at the docks so that work has
been virtually stopped among the
shipping, and as a consequence a vast
number of ships are lying idle unable
to load their cargoes. The action of
the dock hands has fanned the flame
of discontent among all classes of la-
bor, then the strength of the strikers
is being daily augmented by accessions
from other trades, so that the number
of the unemployed has now reached
several hundred thousand.
It seems to be generally admitted
that the workingmen are justified in
demanding the concessions they ask
from the employers, namely, a slight
increase in pay and fewer hours of
work. The condition of the laboring
classes of London has long been pitia-
ble in the extreme, as was clearly de-
veloped recently before the commis-
sion of the House of Lords charged
with investigating into the condition
of t’ne laboring classes. This investi-
gation revealed the fact that the large
surplus of laborers kept the rate of
wages extremely low so that the earn-
ings in the various branches of labor
were utterly insufficient to enable the
workingmen to provide even a scant
living for their families.
The squalor and hardships of their
surroundings, to which they had be-
come callous from long endurance,
blunted the sensibilities of the laborers
to the privations of their condition,
but tney have nevertheless been long
restive, and it needed but the leader-
ship of a few enterprising spirits to fan
the smouldering sparks of discontent
into an active flame.
Now that the crisis has come labor-
ers of all classes are asserting their
claims to a rectification of the abuses
of the present system- of employment,
and as socialistic and radical agitators
have not been slow to take advantage
of the popular uprising to disseminate
their doctrines and engineer a concert-
ed crusade against the capital, it is
not improbable that the present strike
may eventually lead to very serious
disturbances.
The idleness- of so large a body of
laboring men has naturally caused,
serious hardships and great destitution
is reported in the ranks of the strikers
Unless these wants are relieved by
voluntary contributions of trades un-
ions in sympathy with the movement,
it is probable that the laborers render-
ed desperate by want may resort to
lawless acts which would precipitate
serious rioting and bloodshed, as the
large number of the strikers would
present a very formidiable barrier to
successful intervention on the part of
the authorities.
o.uBscin
the move mo at c-f trains.
county paper-
the •News—your ; will help them to
Some classes of persons of more or
loss prominence are greatly addicted
to the indulgence of a desire to form
the minds and morals of the other peo-
ple in the world upon models or by
standards upon which those persons
of undetermined prominence have
formed themselves. They would greatly
delight to have all the other people
just like themselves, and they are ex-
tremely fond of parading their high
qualities before the world, and of
telling just how they reached the con-
dition of their excellence upon which
they felicitate themselves.
One of their “fads” is to tell the
world what.books they are accustomed
to read and from what books they have
derived the greatest amount of mental
and moral benefit. For some time past
the columns of some of the serial pub-
lications have contained long lists of
books affected by this or that person
of note
Of course, there is a choice of books;
of course, books specially appropriate
to the taste and mental characteristics
of particular persons can be selected,
and it would be highly proper if each
^person could have a carefully aranged
course of reading under the direction
of competent guides in matters of mind
and morals. This, indeed, is one of
the chief advantages to be derived from
a systematic study of a good college
curriculum. A systematic education is
greatly to be desired ; but, after all, the
benefits to bo derived from books is so
much more dependent on the
reader than on the books that we are
tempted to say, as far as miscellaneous
and desultory reading goes, that it
matters little what nooks are read,
provided they be not vicious and evil
in their nature and teachings.
A man may get a good solid educa-
tion out of one book, jf it be a volume
containing matters of worth ; and it is
said that the man of a single book is
one to beware of because he is apt to
be thorough as far as his knowledge
goes, and to that extent strong in con-
troversy .
We once knew a man who, being
lamed from a wonnd, adopted and
learned the trade of making shoes be-
cause the business was suited to liis
physical disability. Having read Pope’s
translation of Homer’s Iliad and Odys-
sey, he became so thoroughly engross-
ed in them that he never rested until
he had mastered them in the Greek
which he studied expressly for the
purpose. Thus, after he had made
himself acquainted with all the man-
ners and customs of the peoples treat-
ed, with the history of personages and
nations, and with the geography of
the places and countries mentioned in
those celebrated epics, this shoemaker
possessed a liberal education although
hi 5 actual schooling was of the most
elementary nature, lie was a master
of Ilomer, however, and was able to
hold his own with vaunted scholars.
As we have said, it is in the mind,
not the book, that is the chief factor
in education. A mind will extract its
chosen pabulum from almost any book.
Each mental constitution is different,
and is capable of securing by its own
■» o;
processes of assimilation from the
books presented to it just what it de-
mands for gratification or for support,
in a manner entirely analagous to the
abi'hy of the digestive system to sep-
arate from the food it receives the
nourishment required, while the re-
mainder is rejected as waste matter.
Dr. Kfipstein, Leipsie professor, con-
ceived the design of writing a course
of text books on the Anglo-Saxon lan-
guage from reading a chance page
from Walter Scott’s novel of Ivanhoe,
while Tennyson got the theme for
many of his best poems in his child-
hood readings from the Bible, from
Mother Goose, from the Arabian
Nights and from the nursery tales of
Arthur’s Court. Sir Isaac Newton
became one of the world’s foremost
astromers from having been first infat-
uated with the fanciful theories of as-
trology. This is true also of Tycho
Brahe, while Lavoisier and other cele-
brated chemists bad in their boyhood
been firm believers in magic and
alchemy.
Alter all, any book is good provid-
ed it be not plainly and decidedly evil
and immoral,while the idea that the
youthful mind is led into false and
wicked ways by fanciful stories is too
absurd for serious notice. A boy is
no more made good from being exclu-
sively fed on Sunday school literature,
than is a boy made wicked from lib-
eral reading of fairy tales and the
Arabian Nights The most fanciful
stories of chivalry and knighthood at
least teach that life is full of struggles
with evil, and that only the brave and
virtuous are worthy of admiration. In
this commonplace age there is quite
as much use and necessity for heroes
as ever there was in the days of King
Arthur or of Charlemagne. Let the
young be taught those facts and give
them books that will help them to un-
derstand that honesty, courage, truth
and fidelity are the highest qualities of
manhood. We cannot have too much
of them... Give the boys books^ that, sjjeri tf’s
be heroes. Heroes | TA-t-TA*“ .V
Let none wish for unearned gold.
Be honest and then be generous.
Mockery never degrades the just.
To-morrow may never come to us.
The poorest are the most charitable.
One fib is oft the cause of ten more.
A lie is black even if it is a white
The post of honor is the post of du-
“1 can’t,” is a humbug and a nuis-
ance.
Is it not parsimonious to be econ-
omical .
No admittance, here, except on
business.
Wealth nor power can ennoble the
mean.
To-day is all the time we absolute-
ly have.
A single fact is worth a folio of ar-
gument.
It is not selfish to be correct in
your dealings.
The worth of a thing depends on
the want of it.
Let nothing be undone which ought
to be done.
Small profits, little risk; large pro-
fits, large risk.
The be-it kind of a picnic is a pick
at Old Nick.
Something wrong when a man is
afraid of himself.
Honesty is better capital than a
sharper’s cunning.
Whose credit is suspected is not
safe to be trusted.
A true man never frets about his
place in this world.
Conscience dead as a stone is a
heavy thing to carry.
Employ no one to do what you can
easily do yourself.
flTo ’The Man Who Woirt
■’ * ;~i jYlr ^
May he be shod with lightning and
compelled to wander over gunpow-
der.
May every day of his life be more
despotic than the Dey of Algiers.
May he never be permitted to kiss a
pretty woman.
May he be bored to death by board-
ing.school misses practising their first
lesson in music, without the privilege
of seeing his tormentors.
May 240 nightmares trot quarter
races over his stomach every night.
May his boots leak, his gun hang
fire and his fishing line break.
May troops of printer’s devils, lean,
lank and hungry, dog his foot-steps
every day.
May a regiment of cats caterwaul
under his window each night.
May his cow give sour milk and his
churn make rancid butter.
In short, may his business go to
ruin, and himself to the d----1.—
Stuart, (Va.,) Press.
Q1TE,
-PROPRIETOR-
Lin. M ill Silt S
bTOrtb Side Square--Albany.
Medical and other journals are dis-
cussing the momentous question:
When should women marry? While
the journals discuss the dear women
decide, and—marry when “barkis is
willing,” if not the barkis they prefer,
then, later on in life, some other bar-
kis.—[Gazette.
All stock entrusted to my care will receive careful attention and
feed. Come around and give me a trial when you are in Albany.
honest
Shackelford county offers big
ducements to the home-seeker.
Business Locals.
Cooking stoves for
Collins & Son. (21.
sale by J. F.
.in. tmliaii liurlal i iac«.
About ten days ago I again visited
the Indian graves near Romney, W.
Va. It seems that ashes played an im-
portant part in the burial ceremony,
as I found from half a peck to five
bushels of ashes in each grave. The
method of burial, so far as I can judge
from careful examination, was as fol-
lows: They dug or scooped out a hole
from 1 to fi feet deep by 2 feet wide and
3 feet long in the hard, still clay, which
underlies a covering of 2 feet of soft
sandy loam. These holes were filled
with ashes and cinders, among
which were parts of tiio skulls and
horns of deer and bones of other ani-
mals, though they showed no signs of
being burned or charred. On top of
these ashes the body was placed and
then covered with the sandy loam.
At tiro bottom of one of these
graves we found a pot made of clay,
about 22 inches in diameter by 10
inches deep, the sides of which were
of elaborate ornamentation, the prin-
cipal being a carved face about every
six inches around the top. In the pot
was the upper shell of a turtle, the
jaw bone of a squirrel, and several
clam shells—evidences of food placed
in the grave for use in the journey to
”tho happy hunting grounds."
The pottery consisted of three kinds
-yellow, brown and black. The first ! badly
bad but little ornamentation, the sec-
ond was ornamented to some extent,
but the last was the Royal Worcester
of Indian art production, and was,
without doubt, placed in the graves
of those only who were greatly dis-
tinguished.
Among the articles found was a
knife made of copper roughly beaten
out. The blade was 5 inches long by
R inches broad, and its dull, sandstone
sharpened edge must have required
strong muscular exertion on the part
of the operator to remove the scalp of
his dead enemy.
The graves are scattered over a
space of about ten acres, and are on
what is called the Island Farm, which
consists of about ninety acres. The
owner thinks the entire island was a
burying ground. — Washington Star.
Order your lottery tickets through
Gooding’s drug store.
Choice Northern apples and
toes, J. F. Collins & Son. (21.
A Good Word for the Farmer.
It is a great mistake to attribute
want of mental culture to the Ameri-
can farmer. lie must know more or
less of most of the practical sciences
in order to take care of his animals,
his crops, his machines, to forecast the
weather for his seeding and his har-
vesting and the prospect of demand for
his marketing. He not only reads
the papers, but lie has undisturbed
time to ponder on what seems import-
ant, to digest it, and form well consid-
ered conclusions. Only his tongue is
not so fluent or flippant, his thoughts
not so nimble, his principles not so
adaptable, his hands and dress not so
free from dust and rents, and his en-
during fiber not so supple as among
the sedentary; room imprisoned, over
sheltered denizens of the town.—W.
G. W. in Rural Now Yorker.
A Queer Mine of Valuable Wood.
Forty miles above New Orleans is
the old bed of the Bonnet Carre cre-
vasse. Fifteen years ago the Father
of Waters burst his bonds and swept
through there to Lake Pontchartrain.
Five years ago the state of Louisiana2
with the assistance of the Mississippi
Valley railroad, rebuilt the Bonnet
Carre levee, but it could not restore
altogether the conditions prevailing
antecedent to the crevasse. The river
in the ten years it passed through the
swamp piled up its sands against the
big cypress forests there. It has left
behind a buried forest. The piled up
sand has deadened nearly all the trees,
and a shingle mill is now at work
there manufacturing them into shin-
gles with all the rapidity with which
that machine works.—New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
makes
Qncries and Assertions.
Very often the bluntest man
the sharpest points.
Can the maker of flags be classed as
a standard author?
Bananas, like wedding guests, are
always ready to throw the slipper af-
ter the paring comes off.
One would naturally suppose that
an engine has to be hot before it can
raise steam, but the fact is it has to be
coaled.
Love may want all or nothing, but
Pastures To Lease.
We have two fine pastures near Alba-
ny to lease
-fine
grass and water.
Webb & Hill.
are in big demand.
attachment
beside,
wbat it can get
so exacting as a
le latter * id take
-Bal timore
! L
Atneri- j |br price.
m fco
For fu
The Albany House,
MR. and MRS. W. M. DUNN,
PROPRIETORS,
pota-
Fatronize your home nursery and
get good stock and a fair deal. (23.
Physician’s prescriptions accurately
compounded at all hours, at
Gooding’s drug store. 50
TMLcLln. St. Albany,
BATES, - $2.00 ZEPIEFEi IDAY.
DEALER IN-
13
STOVES J&JKTID-
Agricultural Implements.
CISCO, T£32LA.@.
The First National Bank^
^XaIOjSlTSTST, TEXAS.
-t-
Authorized Capital, $250,000.
Surplus, - $25,000.
Paid up Capital,
Capital and Surplus
-1--
$75,00'
100,001
Geo. T. Reynolds, President.
W. D. REYNOLDS, Vice-Pres., N. L. BARTHOLOMEW Cashier
-----+.
Will buy and sell exchange on the principal cities of the United States and Europe
and transact a general banking business.
Stationery, school books, and school
supplies, at Gooding’s drug store. 50
N. H. BURKS & CO,
The finest line of stationery in Al-
bany at Gooding’s drug store. 50
- -DEALERS IN--
;-r~
Hardware. Stoves
Try some of that choice comb hon-
ey, very cheap, at J. F. Collins &
Son. (21.
TINWARE and CROCKERY.
Agents for Charter Oak and Brilliant Stoves, Studeba-
Paints, oils, varnishes, wall paper,
glass putty &c. cheap at Gooding’s
drug store. 50
ker Wagons, Glidden Fence Wire, Perkins Wind Mills,
White and New Home Sewing Machines.
All persons indebted to this office
will oblige us by coining and settling
up, as we need money and need it
CISCO NURSERY.
—-I HAVE THE-
Larses! and Best Assortment of- Fruit Me
You can get any variety of poach
you want, or any sized tree, from a
switch to a 7 foot tree well branched,
at the Cisco Nursery . (23.
Trees,
Grape vines, Blackberries, Etc., ever offered
v.
We have several bed room sets, and
two velvet plush parlor suits which
we offer to close out at exact cost.
.2 tf N. H. Burns & Co.
for sale inv
this section of the country. Leading varieties of Peach,
Apple and Grape, per 100, $10.00, and everything else at
living prices. Call and examine my stock, or write for
what you want.
■V^illforcl JR.C>*l3±SftC>Xl,2P3?OX>«
11-2 Miles South of Cisco.
The GfiivAT Texas State Pair
The Albany Milling Company are
paying the highest market price in
spot cash for good sound wheat. No
damaged wheat bought at any price.
20 tf
-AND-
Balias: Hxpositicm,
K.J J
Glidden wire, the acknowledged
standard, at same price per irUe as
the so-called cheap wires.
20tf N. H. Burns & Co.
DALLAS, TEXAS,
All those needing tombstones, or
fencing for graves, will do well to give
their orders to Mr. A. F. Straight, of
Throckmorton. He will give you fine
work and close prices. Call at this
office for further particulars.
OCTOBER 15tH TO 27th, 1889.
PREMIUMS
M
PURSES
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is fa-
mous, for its prompt and effectual
cures of coughs and colds. The
most severe cold may be loosened and
relieved by a few doses of this valua-
ble remedy. For sale by
M. E. Gooding.
$75,000!'
“I have used St. Patrick’s Pills,”
says Mr. J. Reynolds, of Mayfield,
Ky., “and pronounce them superior
to any I have ever before used. I do
not hesitate to recommend them
Fcv sale by
M. E. Gooding.
Write for daily programmes.
C. A. COUR, SEC’T, DALLAS, TEX.
•OUR-
It is of the utmost importance that
every coldthe cured as quickly as pos-
sible after be first symptoms appear,
and the experience of many years has
shown that there is no medicine that
will cure a severe cold in less time
than Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
Sold at 50 cents per bottleby
M. E. Gooding.
---ARE THE-
IN TfflS SECTION.
Merchants and all others of this
and adjoining counties who need
an d kind of printing done wiil do
well to send ns their orders.
1
Photography Taught Free.
As I shall shortly be moving from
here, I will teach anyone free who
will purchase my background, chairs,
tables, magic lantern and all apparat-
us required to take photographs (ex-
A bargain
Address orders to tbe NEWS, Albany, Texas. ^
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