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A PETS OF 1UOTISCriON
Every tour y irs republican platform
orators and republican newspapers go Into
hysterica aneot pur poor struggling infant
industries sail depict awful calamities
should a party get Into power that would
tear down th high protective wall ani
scatter K debris Into the toughing seas
It 5 one of rho fortunes of the season
therefore tiat this ljtlgitlon has como
aout between Millionaire Carnesle and
hi erstwhile manager Millionaire Trick
over the distribution of many millions of
dollars piled up t > y that corporation pop
ulirly known as the Carnegie steel trust
If this steel trust Is an Infant ne mav
M ask wiat sort of a creature a full
grown giant would be Wills McCooIc
liIclts attorney aumAnarltoft Frlcke bill
wth these assertion
The business from 1S S to 10O0 was enor
mously tirofltable growing bv leaps and
3unjD from year to vear until la ISM too
lira actually made on lowpriced contracts
in n fJ rroflH Wn all expense of
all kinds fnOOttMO In November 1SS9
f ift lrate4 na nct Profit <
and rlck llfn clmated them
at JI OOOOOO Carnegie Talued the cntlr
proprrtv at J3 W000 an < t asnwed bis nbll
lty In ordinarily proancrous llmen to null tho
propertyon the1 London marks for 106000
MO or JMO0M0W
Thinkof this podr tnnocent infant being
cnablod to mnho only J 15000000 a jear
on a capital siook of J230000001 If tha
protective tariff had bcen modllled tho
poor thing might havo only cleared 10
000000
Such stupendous profits on ono of thi
most useful articles In the construction
of necessary Improvements of town and
country ar an outrage on the cttlicnship
of cur country AYlcar profit of 15400
000 a year onone of the necesnries of
life staggers 4he Imagination It plainly
chows that a monopoly has been built up
and protected by law tbat rob tbo peoplo
< jt more money annually thsn did the
iJbuJslana lottery In its palmiest da
If such aggregates of weslth In so short a
time asd the manner 1n which the profits
h v bien made do not coavlnco the
American people that there Is nioro differ
ence in protection aud free trade than
tbero Is In tweedledum and tweedledee
then the trust has come to stay and tho
octopus way eoptjnue to expand But ws
bcllevo the people have
ono alert eve on
the situation At least we hope so
iv Tijinivr rnorusT
Tho Twentyfourth iesIsIaturtf by con
cunent resolution approved Starch 16
JS95 granted to John B Hoed camp the
right to erect
a Confederate
monument at
tho Congress avenue entrance to tho State
caplol grounds Since the extra session
began the senate looking wisely about for
wmothlng worthy to do while tho house
agonized and perspired over the tax bill
has recorded a timely protest against tho
erection of the monument on the proposed
site It Is certain
that the senate was
not moved to revolutionary objection by
any possible lack of sympathy with ihv
ennobling purpose from whence camo tho
patriotic resolvo to rear within touch of
the State house an enduring monument
to the chlvalrlc dead of tho Southern Con
fefleraey whoso matchless struggle for the
Inviolability of tbo constitutional rights
t > f the
sovereign
commonwealth will sur
vive cocqualJr with tho republic tin
arbitration of Issues by tbo agencies of
physical force Nor Is It at all likely that
tie site of tbo proposed monument was the
sole reason of protest A monument of
symmetrical proportion Iq the design of
which were released the thoughtful genius
Of an artist en rapport with the Confed
erate cause and Its deeds ts Inspiration
nd bopis would bellow be spot and
consign It to
a commemoration so pro
touadly sacred that standing In Its pres
aapa sjuo would recount with that thrill
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which touched tho comprehending bouI
the majesty of a brave peoples tnarvo
lous sacrlflco to honor and duty But n
monument squat and ungainly 1n tho
Idcaless lines of which there was 110
mora art than In a barbed wire fence and
that could tell no story of heroism and
sacrifice except that supplied by the of
fended spectator who c rrled In his heart
the memory of his countrys knightly
achievement ought not to bo tolerated
It la possible that our Stato senators
wore really prompted to protest by tho
fear thattho proposed Confederate monu
ment might bear some suggestive ro >
semblanco to that monstrosity In stone
that defiantly rears Its offending Incarna
tion of proportlonlcss stupidity on tho
left of the walk as one approaches tho
south entrance to tho capltol If so
our senators are entitled to the gratitude
of every Confederate survivor and of their
children to the furthermost generation
thereof
In the mcantlmo It Is conceded that the
John B Hood camp trustees have a vested
right In tho site In question and that tho
cgl3laturo should since they so generous
ly yield to this senatorial protest re
imburse their fund to an amount suffi
cient prated them from loss
SOUTH AFMCAS BVl Trilli WHISK
For more than five months tho South
African war has boon writing In strategy
and blood Its fascinating contribution to
mllilnry history Great Britains Initial
confidence that her designs to rear n su
perb South African emplro upon tho ruins
of tho Dutch republic where British pres
tige in all Its resourceful power would
stand unchallenged has long slnco given
way under the amatlng urtd heroic re
sistance of the Boers
Tho tremendous consequences of the
tempestuous issuo each side feels more
profoundly now than at any tlmo Unco
the first Boer rltlc spoke Its audacious de
fiance on tho invaders territory Aroused
by a long and rapid succession of Boer
victories tho British parliament has come
to understand that Great Britains su
premacy as a world power swings In tho
balance of tho South Afrlcin struggle
Therefore It Is that tho war strength of
the United Kingdom has been concentrated
la all Us vast ontlrcty In a supremo de
termination to crush tho fighting farmers
of the African republics whoso military
genius resourcefulness and leonine cour
age constitute nt this tense hour tho as
tonishment of civilization
During tho week Just closed perhaps tbo
most portentous of tho campaign almost
tho cntlro Btltlsh forco has boen put In
motion and British plans revealed In
their development they do not seem to
hao caught tho Boers unawares Klm
borlcy baa been relieved it It true but
it Is significant that the relieving army
meeting with practically no resistance
found Qonoral Cronjea besieging f01 cos
InNfuii retreat
Whether the occupation of KImbcrley
is an ndvanttgo to Lord Itobetts is not
quite clear to any ono sa o tho exultant
British censor and tho London expert
Besides tbo garrlsoit KImbcrley has a
population of approximately gooo and all
on tho vcrgo of stanatlon These to
gothcr with bis rescuing army 70000
strong Lord Koberts must victual and
care for from his base of supply nt Dunnr
In Capo Colony raoro than 100 miles away
and connected with KImbcrley by a rail
way line that tho Boers hao cut at Mod
dor river Before communication cm bo
reestablished between KImbcrley and
Deaar Junction ihls breik must bo re
paired In tho raoontlnio tho Boors moUng
undor Commandtnto Delary and Cioobler
arc fighting their way toward the railroad
with the view of cutting Lord Itobeits
connection with hh base at a ltnl point
In thii accomplishment they havo driven
tho BrltlBb troops commanded by ttoncrat
Clomontn from Bennrsberg to Arundel and
outflanked them Should tho Boers suc
ceed as they am bent upon doing tho re
lict of Kimboiley may yet proo the most
glgantlo and fateful blunder of tho cam
paign Loid Itobcrts big nrmy already
exhausted by tho fatigue and heat of a loug
and rapid march must protect Its base or
faco an nppnlllng situation
lroin the British dispatches It Is well
ulgh ImpopHlblc to tlguro out the mystery
so far as tho tclatho positions of tho op
posing forces nro concerned It Is known
that Oeneril Trench Is at Aloxandorsfon
tcln the abandoned Beer trenches m front
of Klmberley and Is scouring tha country
to the north whllo Methuens cavalry
commander is probably cxocutlng a similar
mocment towards the south but where
General Cronjos retreating forco Is or
what Is Its purpose not eventha British
censor seems to dare apoculatton Cronjo
has retreated but no ono seoma to know
an > thing beyond this fact It Is held
that ho Is cut off from Blnemtontoln his
supply base In tbo Orange Froo State but
the fact that Lord Roberts long aud ad
mirably linked lines curving In a hugu
semlclrclo from Klmberley to tho Modder
river crossings thence to Jacobsdal and
Modder rtver ntatlon hsvo failed to de
termine Ms routo of retreat very clearly
Indicates that General Cronjo has mastered
Lord ltoberU plan and Is now endeavorlns
to counter with a rapid and stratoglo move
that will cnablo him to cut tho British
communications at such point as be may
select or Worso still decoy tho enemy Into
one of those deadly traps Into which It has
so frequently fallen
Whllo these decisive events aro transpir
ing lu tho Orange Freo State for tbo re
suits of which the country must almost
exclusively rely ou British centered re
ports 250 miles away at Lad > 8inltb near
ly duo west of KImbcrley Gcnornl Jou
berts army holds Bullcr at arms length
while hammering away at tho beleaguered
nrltlsh garrison Ono day tho dlspjtches
annouueo that tho Boors aro relaxing the
siege In order to march to the defense of
the now Invaded Orange Free State and
the next that ihcy are recoficentratlng m
tho neighborhood of aencral Whites im
prisoned forces
A yet neither tho British censor on
the theater of war nr > r the military ox
pert Immersed at London In the study of
his maps and the movements of the Im
perial army has been able to tell what a
S3 K8gZlZ3
HOUSTOiN DA1JA PptiT aUJKJLAY AlOliXUSO i BKLAUi Id 1UUU
Boor general would do next or where his
force would eventually strike
Tho coming week will no doubt bo
fraught with revelations that will clear tip
the Boer plans and bring forth the e vento
that will determine cither tho flnaj suc
cess of the British or their Inability to de
stroy tho South African republics oxcept
at tho end of a struggle that Will leave
tho United Kingdom warn to an exhaustion
of blood treasuro from whence It can not
recover within tho time of living man
The Carter case still hang fire notwith
standing he stole somo millions from Undo
Samuel years ago haa been tried and con
victed of the theft and sentenced to Im
prisonment yet he remains In New York
Governor Trcthadoro Hcocovolt having ltckrd
tho Spanish all by himself at San Juan hlllt
captured tho g 0 p elephant In York State
and dictated plans for the tcrrorlilng of Ken
tucky wo would suggest that ho now see to
it that Carter marches to Leavenworth peni
tentiary
Tho extra session has at last determined to
cet down to business
BrecMnrldKe of Kentucky recently said in
A convention with a correspondent ancnt tho
trouble lu that Stnte My powers of speech
utterlv fall mo No wonder Tho alpha
betical statesman wag struck dumb by Mtst
Pollard soma yenrs ago and tbo slightest ex
citement Is likely to cause a relapse
Wanted Ono prophet by name ot Nelll
English Cotton Spinners
Now comes a report from Nebraska that a
man was gored to death by n dehbrncd bull
and an Iowa contemporary chuckles Tbeio
Is nothing remarkable about the report how
ever In n country where thcr are so many
funerals caused by unloaded guns
General Cronjo must bo nn extraordinary
dodger Ho has een escaped tbo Biltlsh
cenfror
Tho Boston Herald exclaims There there
Teddy dont holler any more Tho Indica
tions nr < > that Kentucky will be able In tako
euro of herself without tho assistance of out
side shouting And It might havo added or
outtldo shooting either
Accordlnc to tho Chicago Chronicle It Is a
senulne enso of dog cat dog with Tanner an I
Cullom
Hon Dick Tliompnon the great states
man nod Interesting octogenarian who died
In Irdlana rectntly attributed his longevity
to a modcrato use of nlcoholle flquors nil his
innc life Tho rum demon thus scores another
tally versus teetotallsm
The InnocuouB desuetude that surrounds the
British consul nt New Orleans Is rather do
prcsrlpg
Kri per once cut an obstreperous molar
from his head and nov It la reported thtt
Mre Kruger cuts tho presidents hair with a
ralr of sheep shears and jet thero nro somo
peoplo who vainly Imagine that the Boers
Rrn not heroic
Official Washington is highly pleased Ills
rumored that tho czar will soon interfere In
the Transnnl trouble
A recent dispatch Informs us that Mr
llanna a right leg is still lame When tho
coming campaign is oicr and only n matcr
nt hlstoiy It la pretty certain tbit Mr Ilanua
will be disabled In both legs
After all Bobs has bobbed tiporr time at
Klmberley but not qulvk eppugh 19 catch
General Cronjo nslcep
About tho tlmo Southwest Texas began to
reach for a shirt waist un ugly nld blUzard
sneered down from tbo Icy North ami ad
mcnlebcd her to keep on flannels > ct awhile
and sho obeys with a kick
Montana rinrk haa money to burn but ho
ilcsut scent tn burn It Instead he buys
certificates of ono sort or another
A medlcophllosopher up In York Stnto
recommends the memorising of poetry ns n
iuro for novouBiiess This must certainly be
0110 Instance of whero the medlolna la worse
than the disease
Uullcr and McKlnley nro alike In ouo ro
spectono neer ciin tell today what side of
tho stream they will bo on tomorrow
Within tha past ton jenrs elephants hnwi
Tn > lor appears us prehensile as ever It
Is not however so much ambition as the
iierqiilsltes ot office that make him so
C Hug la a candidate for nldermanle honor
nt Ohama and to think that they dont havo
tho female franchise In Nebraska Fata
l not only Irony In this Inslanic Its Icy us
well
Lost strajed or stolen Agulnaldo Liberal
reward nnd no questions neked If returned to
the command of flraadma Otis before the jcar
1001
If Mr Catt succeeds to the presidency ot
the woman suffrage movement we would sus
eest that tho vice presldonfs name be
Thomas merely for the sake of harmony
s
The trust conference In Chlcogo practicably
recommended that a nlcotlned straw bo run
through the octopus mouh and that It tbon
be decapitated with a raior
RXCMANOE INTERVIEWS
Mr Theo Bering ono of the bla hardware
dealers of the filnte hnd a flno Interview lu
Tho Houston Post of Tuesday 011 the anti
trust law and tho refusal of the trust con
cerns to do buelnees In Hie State on other
than ensh In advance He favors the law
ami says tha action of the trusts Is a bluff
He snya that already the dealers am virtually
pajlng cash M advance Jamais inquirer
Kxactly Tho Post has time and njain
ald the trusts wero bluffing noes It look
reasonable that a greedy grasping octopus
would surrender the best territory It has
becauso It Is forced to obey the lnw to some
extent Novrr In n thousand years
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Tbc Lockhnrt Register favors changing tho
law so that nine agreed Jurors can bring in
n verdict Such a change would obliterate a
treat deal ot trouble and expense In cava
where eleven obstinate men prevent a ver
dict and neeesaltnte a new tral and additions
expense The Cltlxen Is of opinion tho Reg
isters Idea Is a good one and one that ought
to be carried Into effect Colorado Cltlsen
There can be no doubt about the need at
some sort ot reform In the Jury 5stem it
the various Stat legislatures would erne
making new laws which nrc rarely enforced
nnd mako several Improvements In tho stat
ute now on the books and havo these now
there properly enforced society would be
better more elevated and taxe would ba re
duced to a sum hnrdly noticeable
The Bonbam Favorite isone of tbe strong
papers In North Tcx that does not ron
elder the Declaration ot Independence out et
date nor the Cen U itlon of the United States
and the sprtt thereof dead Tho Favorite
ugistn way for John Bull and Uncle
> i n sajmmi in
Ham to get out otahouiiilildlaof a bad Ox as
fellows
There Is now n preat deal of talk about the
United Ktatea offering tnMfflcdlato betwern
Ortat llrltaTn and tho South African republics
Thoone great < b > In the the1
> atie way
l thatUncle Ham can not make the offer
with clean hands as a court of equity
would say He Is engaged In a almllar uu
merciful and unjust war and if be should
Offer to mediate tho British might call at >
tcntlon to the beam in hi own eye Thero
la one thing however which ho might do and
J old such a rebuke HO might say to the
Krltlfh that wo aro both engaged In a rrtlet
wrong and it you will allow me to mediate
111 your war that the samo may censa and
Justl < e bo done I will atop thi > war that I
am waging and grant tbo Filipinos their
rgnts To uch a proposition as this John
Bull who l now like Undo Ham In the mid
dle of n bad fix could not object And then
ogalD tho ono stono of which we have heard
jo often might be used to kill the two evil
birds It Is never cowardly or dishonorable
to do right and both the United States and
Great Britain could net with mom true brav
ery In atoprlng each lis war than In prose
cuting tho fearac
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Besides homo consumption the American
hens products sold are greater lu value than
either hbgs mules wheat or cotton Stranger
still bIio furnishes revenue enough to pay the
pension bill of thd Notion twice over Bead
the United Stateo stastles for 1S3G
Earnings of poultry J290OO0OO0
Vft uoof hogs 18052371
Va ue of minerals i816S7BS
Value of wheat crop 2079JS60S
Valuo ot cotton crop 2 i9l4til
Total of pensions KWKMOTsj
Plant hens a well as cotton corn bogs
aud milk cows Abilene Heportcr
Kloquent figures and truo as well The
poultry buslnesa Is ono of tho Industries that
Is certainly not overdone In tho United States
and yet it is ouo of tho most pleasant as
well us on0 of the most profltablo Industries
Jn tho world It was a Nebraska lady who
paid off tho mortgage on her husbands llvo
stock ranch with ber poultry
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The hill relating to the ship channel from
lloUBton to Hi bay has been passed by the
senate and work will soon bo commenced
Houston will coon havo deep wnter nnd other
good things as tho city deserve Gonzales
Inquirer
Of course she deserves all the good things
out of doora and when she gets them Hous
ton will bo a metropolitan city that will
make all Southeast Texas proud
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The Whltowrlght Sun goes nttcr a cotton
factory In earnest It says
Tho directors of tho Sherman cotton mill
have docldcd to double tho capacity of their
rotton factory And what an argument this
Is for n cotton mill In MoKlnuey nayn tho
Gnidtf Such nn argument In ns pertinent
Whltcw right ns nuy city In North Texas
Those towns that nto pushing the cotton mill
question uow aro suro to outstrip nil others
In
future
To which tho GnlnesMllo Chronicle kotows
nnd adds
And what nn argument In favor of cotton
a
mill for < lnlneallle He nt the court bouse
tonight put your shoulder to tho wheel nnd
helo the enterprising Cltlzena Business lcaguo
nnd the busncsa men In general to build a
cotton mill remembering that thoio towns
that are pushing tho cotton mill questlou uow
will outstrip nil others la the future
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Tho GalncsUllo Chronicle Is happy The
crowd of haugorson In that city will not
havo a lalapaloosa of a time always Tbo
Chronlclo says
The crowdg of negroes and bums that have
herctofoie feasted high during etty cam
paigns nnficc liquor aro now cut off from
tlielr clabber hence they will have to adopt
other methods i0 lank up
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Tho El Paso Hernldilakes 0 bold stand for
Its terrtor > nnd tbo citizens theioof nnd vciy
wisely mulcts the following lomt > arlfionn
Tho rng of horses hoofa wU echo In tho
earn of rdltorlil writrrs In the critical Kan
lu lh urodNorth when they read
of tlio daring hauls robbery which took pluee
m I < as enters yestCTday nnd New Mexiro
w 1 agu 11 be paraded In their lOlumns as
wild and wooly territjny But as a mnttor
of fait no rreater ijurpriso would be sprung
on the people of New York CJIty If two ine
should ride up to n Broadway bank enter
u hold up tbo < cashier and get away with the
Banks cash than has been sprung on tho
people of tho Soutliwest hy the hank robbers
In
Las Cruccs Such uffalrs have hecorao i
great rarity In this part of tho world Head
ers of the Herald mere dazzled ycatcrdiv
when they read the stilling uuwo The ai
count read more like a 8tory fiom Chhago
r w rk n a asOry from Las cruccs
Bobbers Just ns nervy w lb Just us much
coolnesn nnd lourago only leeently held up
tho cashier of factory In St Louis lu n
B1H Lai Eot Rttay hl
cash
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The Dallas Tlmesllcrald baa been doing a
little tm 11 in mathematics and hero Is tho
ample result
The State has 125 cotton seed oil mills
decreased In n
prlco from nn average of 10000 operation and In this Industry und 111 fatten
to J2000 Tho politician should laid
Imr lest they get an ocrsupply nn
enr
wain 1 fn ° on < niton seed iiiohI nod hulls leads
hand this fvry country or State In tho world and the
ndustry Is pajlng well This proves better
hmi
anything else that this Stnte should
bav nt least lOtf cotton mills lu
operation to
absorb ns much lint cotton lu proportion as
It does cotton seed When our own people
and
theli Kasleni connections understand thu
situation tliesu mills will go up
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mHl1 I10 S1 Pcr h A original cost
nnrLif tlc ll lp n0 0 1 Hlldental lost
Itr JJtl i n rciIudiiK them to possession and
tie Si fir annual cost per bend In keeping
hem In our possession another Ui expense
is to be considered namelv tho time nnd
fxi lll < 1ij 0r congiMsnien In talking
bout them This n elf will nmount to mil
lions Montague Democrat
And the greatest cost of all Is the blood ot
tho hundreds of our noblo young men the
greater portion of whom went to that far off
Asiatic country with the mistaken Idea that
they wero offering their lives to resent au
Insult offered their flag by Spain
The carnival number of Hnrlcquln New
Orleans hlRhclass weekly by Mr 1 M
Ieveque has reached Tho Post It Is a
thing of lure beauty and a Joy forever and
ever world without end amen In many
colors Harlequin Is robed In many moods It
entertains Its riadors Sometimes It tells a
tlorv as sweet to hear aa ho patterlngs of
W Slt > St >
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WHO SHOULD WIN IN THE TRANSVAAL
tly
Oeo F Hollls cxUnltod States Consul at Pretoria
for It la
This is a question so wide and deep that ot tbo two is bound to triumph
Wtow
con
I apjWl It with great diffidence and re
luctanco Whero la tho prophet who can mpy becnuje they havo for so mauy
welflU and analyze forces and foretell tbo years been out of touch with moTlern
culmination of their effects
Thf Du cVnTEnglish hav ntermur
Uncc when times wcro the daiket V t colonics and the eatuo
In South Africa and financial gloom condition would have obtained In tho
hung like a pall over tho land for the Trnns n1 in a very short tlmo but for tho
bottom had dropped out of the mnnS WnCTJ Sjat S fif
boom I sent a report to Washington pre hiV0 ga tv viitytlc years from now
dieting an output of Transvaal gold of Africa for tho Afrikariderc would luivo
1000000 ounces at n certain date This ien tl people more Virile stronger physt
came to pass and free keep forever was eaiiy intellectually and morally than ovnti
offered mo for n prophctlo utterance wo proud r ople are ourselvuij
Second edition 20u0u00 ounces Through tho aguncy ot the American
Wo havo been living in n fog for many pmale colleges and seminaries of south
years In respect to tho value of Ung Africa let mo call them Mary lyou
land to American civilization und for colleges a wonderful transformation ha
get completely what not only we but been going on in South Africa for some
Kugland owe to olhor nations particularly years und the graduates worthily
Holland equipped for lifes duties would have boon
England tho AngloSaxon has been n rich prizes for joung Ungliah emigrants
mighty civilizing power and has created 0Wl a9 to tho result of this deplorable
material wealth and organized system wRr All history tenches ot tho Impetus
of government to tho great advantago of given to art Bcicnce literature nnd all
mankind Tbo Teutonic ScamUni Ian nnd humanities by tbo rebirth or regenctation
Latin races followed her lead aud mado of a nation England In tho Elizabethan
no small proportion of lur Industrial army period and America aud her revolution
But let us not confound civilization by which England received a hundredfold
with colonization rcrhaps England call nioro than sho would havo obtained by oilr
ing hprsclf tho head of the AnglnSixon conquest provo this
race Is not civilizing to the extent she England Is already humiliated Even
claims and Is mistaking benevolent as
similation for civilization
Civilization must progress It seems to
mo under tho Christian religion Protest
ant nnd Catholic and that religion dac
not countcnanco the survhal of tho fit
tost as this truth Is Interpreted In some
quarters I e tho battering down nnd
taking from tho weak by the strong but
rathfci of the giving of tho power to up
build by tho strong and not chlllzlng tti
weaker peoplo oft tho faco of the earth
It sho should receive the subml slon of
the two republics tomorrow this would bo
true forstie entered upon this war ngilnst
a nation of sheep herders Bhe tbo strong
est worldpower lu whoso domain It wai
claimed there were raoro English subjects
than Dutch with tho largest and best
equipped uroiy she over sent afield and
bra been balked Defeat could hardly add
to her humiliation
On tho other hand should tho Dutch
win a United South Africa would arise
ns wo havo dotio In America nnd Engltnd filled with inspiration by Its success and
In New Zealand noble aspirations which I bellcvo God In
Nor Is It true at contended by some His providence would bless a government
that In the Transvaal two civilizations of the pecple by tho people for the people
are brought Into conflict and the higher whoso Influence all nations would feol
occoe aoe eefloocoecoaooeee aaooooaeeeo e eaoeooao
the fraudulent lists made by assessors
Tho republican city commllteo by sending
to the receiver of taxe3 these forged names
and tho money to pay for corresponding
poll tax receipts has put Itself In the posi
tion of an accessory In tho attompled com
mission of n gross crime It hT noi In
eo far as the Becord 1 Informed disa
vowed Its share In the work
Somo of tho hired operatives In the com
mission of election frauds aro now cithor
fugitives from Justice or on trial In the
couits It does not seem right that only
these breadandbutter rogues should suf
fer whllo tho promoters who lay the foun
dation for crime and pay the etpens ° s and
gather the profits go unwhipt of Justice
SUMD IOSTSCIUPTS
Paris dispatches report continued flow ot
gold bnck to the Bank of Paris from Interior
circulation In tho third week ot January
J93O000 was thus received
men as over followed the colors into tho field
Statistics concerning hulldlng operations
ihow that the year 1800 was one of great ac
tivity Tho total for twentjone cities was
J220000OOi In 1W and SIM500000 In 1S03 au
Ircreaje of over it > G000l00
At a mcctiuc of the Massachusetts Asso
ciation of Boardi of Health the statement
was made that on the average city milk con
tained from TOnooofl to 10000000 bacteria per
ublo ccntlmetere
Tho twentyfifth anniversary of ths founda
tion of tho world s postal union Is to bo cele
brated by a congress at Berne next July The
ccuntrlcs uow Included lu the union hare a
population ot about d billion
It was a belief among the Kgypllans that
the third finger of the left band was con
neeted with the heart by mean3 of a slcudir
nerve Hence the rustom ot wearing the wed
ding ring on that finger
Tho work of rcforostlni Pennsylvania has
been well begun Thus far C0O0O acres at the
headwaters ot tho prnclpal rivers havo been
purchased by the State and 10000 mnro will
soon come Into Us posiesslon
a rnln cloud on the roof of a cottage ft savelores and all sorts of straps ot
paper
consoling ai tho murmur ot water falling These he carefuly sorts In thinking out the
on the ear of ono aweary In a strange land I whole of his speech but his final delivery Is
Then In variations It switches iu a menu made from the original notes
of melody or rolls Into rhanody ths richest I Arrounccmcnt Is made that Prince Yoshl
0 rhetoric It tells how Ills Majesty Rexlblto the crown prince ot Japan will Un
king of
the carnlvnl will oroa court In tha medttely after his marriage In tbe sprlnc
abandon of merriment February 21 lsoo and make a tour of America with his bride Msit
how under tho auaplcta ot this august H Washington D C New
York Chicago
autocrat of tun thoKreweof Nereu
Momus Philadelphia Boston and San Francisco
tU Faltaltious and many thousands of Prof
otherr Edmund Morris Hyde dean of Ural
will saluto the Wing
of tbo Mardl Bras f
tUltles with
Come we from Maine here
Subjects so true
Texas olaln here
Pais boinago duo
OreKOne coait to
Florida s foam
8 < > deth n boat to
welcomo theo home
There Is no doubt that thousands will be
attracted to the beauteous confines of th >
Crescent titv by a veruMil of tho rarnlvul
number ot llarlequlnand that number by
tbo way reflects credit on Us editor nnd
will bo a sweot souvenir to the reader whu
la foitunate enough to cet It
letlhii Ht lineups do 1rce
Philadelphia Record
Whole pages of the list of names sent by
the republican city committee to tho re
ceiver of taxes with a chick for 115003
to pay the poll taxes 0 tho persons desls
nated were written by tbe same hand a
proof of wholesale forgery Ths names
were no doubt simply transcribed from
TI ero is a man almost eight feet tall In
New York and he Is to be exhibited in a
nuscum in n few days lie calls himself Has
Him All und sajs he is an Egyptian He ar
rived n this country from Londou
A plaster parts design for an Undo Sam
lint probably the Inrgcst tn tho world con
taining within Us ciown practical models for
upward of 100 distinct stjlcs of hats worn by
tw cut jthree nationalities will be brut from
Vhllndelpba to the Paris exposition
now
roiyrs about pikhm
Trof John Clifford of Cornell s College ot
Forestry has been elected a member of the
Swiss Solety of Foresters
Blrhop Lawrence tEplscopat ot Massa
chusctts Is one of the wealthiest dergjmen
In th couutry hav Ing nn Income of J2ooo0j
Representative Dolllver wants congress to
enact a law providing for the preservation
of piehlstorc monuments ruins and objects
qn lands owned by the government
Chevalier Michel de la Zarovltch member
of the Hungarian nobility and related to the
royal family of Obreovltrh of Servla is a
member of a Hungarian orchestra In New
YOrk He claims kinship with King Milan
to whom ho bears a resemblance
William Dean Howells has been doing nearly
all his writings of late with a quill pen Ho
says the pen writes easily and that this has a
aood deal to do with the quality as well as ths
quantity of the matter produced
Senator Hoar always speaks from notes
which he make at first at odd moments ou
nu college In Collcgevllle Pa has resigned
hs professorship of Latin and literature and
will occupy tbc rest of the year In work at
the University of Chicago and In supervising
the publication of Latin textbooks
IMUSlltlAI TUXAS
Aubrey has a new llourlng mill
A 115000 liotel is bolns built at Goa
A cigar tfuolory will bo opened at Tem
plo tn the near future
The IlrlJaeport wagon factory destroyed
Toyed
by fire
will he rebuilt
A rice aud a sugar mill will be built
At Bugle Lake this year
A telephone line Is being constructs
between Dublin nod Brawnwood
Yoakum 3 tuahlng a move for Ioooo
hotel and it In thought the will gu u
Corslcsna will erect the largest
BUMn the wwld araj ork wlll esl cottoa Ten It
Plans are on foot for the cocttructioh
of a railroad from San Antonio to Browns
ville
Reports from Wyoming Idaho and Mon
tana Jndlcatu a growing demand for young
cattle
Tho Sheppard Rifles of Texarkana havo
received their full equipment ot arnu and
accouremeats
A flourlrg mill with a capacity of 200
barrels per da Is under con4trucUon at
Taylor Tevas
Most of tho Hood county wheat has
been immured closely but has 11 good
coljr nevertheless
A ribbon cane sjtup plant with a ca
pacity ot 10000 gallons per diy Is being
built at Wharton Te > ras
Farmers ot Oak Grove six miles from
Ennls have with ithe merchants there
organized a club that will look alter crop
maters factories etc
Tho Fruit Orow era association of Wood
Tho Canadian mounted troops which left county will this season couflno Its opera
Halifax the third to go to South Africa since 41l > ns ln thp experimental lino t0 Irsh
PCwtoes and
tho war began Is said to be as fine a body of cantaloupes
Ore hundred and fitly thousand pounds
of Texas grown rice Ins beeiTShlppcl to
Cuba and Puerto Rico from Galveston
within the last three weeks
An effort Is being mado by MUairslppI
farmers to Introduce African ccrttoa sead
into Texas They claim thatXftO pound3
of tho lint will make a uOOpcmpd halo
Somo idea of tho magntudq of tho
Gainesville grain and hay maript can be
obtained when it Is StatOJ that for a
period of ten tUvs ono firm alone ha made
uverosa dally shipments of four cars of
° s
Several wagons loided with Jflno hogs
for tho block ixvo bcn taken ti Sherman
nnd found a rendy sale Hog cuuufo has
w
received quite an imprtus n that section
on bolh sides ot tho river slmo the 03
tabtlehmenit ot a pickery nt Sherman
John Roberts of Taylor county is fepj
Ing a fcunch ot steers on com and millet
each steer consuming about seventeen or
eighteen bushels of corn u minth being
given nil ithe millet ho will cat He finds
that tho two feeds make a fine fattening
ration
J V Wtlson ot Coreloana has coscd a
contract with bo Southwestern Telcgiaph
and Telephone company for 5000 red cedar
lidla This Js tho first largo contract
lot lu Texas hy tho Southwestern com
pany tholr entire tupply of poles hav
ing heretofore corao from MI higan nnd
other States bordering on ithe great lakes
oiiivcr PUNMONS
Tho plan 1 an excellent one and where a
uirporation is
otherwise humane thero is a
rrasmiahle ehanco that an emplojo may grow
old In Its service It will bo a glad day for
labor when It Is thus assured of somcthlnc
against a rainy day whether audi day
ever comes or not The sdicnio descnes to
bo exlcndcd Boston Ulob >
Jir 11 i BWrannuated omplojo nt
hu post the
Intcresis of the servlco suffer
fmrni hoee lntp t no less than the
nTlV 1 < r ed which will bS bene
Ji fA bjtbp ted Innovation
In
pen
sioning Us old employes the FennsylvSnli
f A ll w111 be tho gainer from Its
qulrlr l0n aa bcra > P l lPM n
ha v olTtt
couTpa nl nS1hih0 0Medgement 0f the
trlbStS 0i i tb2uee tUL 0 krair kn ba S con
enterprlse u 1 n c af oussplrltoj
Awe
Holland
JsuVI 1u
J8BC r advocacy of tho platform of
Granted Now will
Th0 Post say
asMZT u a8rces WUh on < P
2 c suy8 v ° iQt
r ° nj to > > ° pt
flnarel y Z bt adoptth
Wiat Mr CIar
character Thnrvallon el nnr kind Qr
L Po3t ha8never
thine in i said any
that supported tha chc22l0C r V0 aper
> V J Uryan in igiir 5S0 tform una
tbe same TbB f1 15tl 8taa > 8 for
Present editor vole WxfTn nJ t
TZ ° SA rt or BriVB l8a 8
tfyif gftr r Himir
WITH TUB PASSING TH O
Colonol
L L Foster pretM
Agricultural and Mechanical call
down from Collio Stittlom
trip yesterday colonel Fo Kill
that affair at W
school are In excellent TV1
material progress is belnft condition al W
Uto various jincp 0 ln tri
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VtX1 f
bo presented by ono of A o
companies during tho coming
In tho city yesterday arranil lnV tS1W
appearance of his attract HAr l
on
guest at the V
Capitol hotel wMUv <
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It occurs to aw said Jtr
Pcden in conversation with a reori
tivo of The Post yesterday that
t
weather In coming to South Tew
nnd Inter each year Wbel 7Jte i
1
Houston several years agoTtt0t
sovoro weather occurred In ° m
now the lowest IcmperatSw Sty
comes In February It was a f i
year ago you will remember wLJ 1
worst cold snap of 1890 occurred lit
+ +
A notable visitor
to Houston >
present Is Colonel Lafayette FlthJj
Waco who la tho guest ot relative K
city Co onel Fltzhugh was semini
arms of tho Confederate congress J
the time It was in session
and he acquired his present mlllUrT5
into a regiment or ho Xso i
fleer Ho Is a typ cal centlemn V
old Southern school and ThTa
some
lnlscenccs of the days 0f the
aro ot extreme Interest Cdntedc rict
Mr Boiling Arthur
Johnson one thai
founders Of Hoo lloo and probably
best known of all tho lumber trade
a tn
paper men in tho business is acoulrar
considerable distinction as a lecturer HI
lecture on The First Things In Hoo tiw
which was given during the annyal
catenation at l
Denver last year andYe
at a refent
concatenation at Kansas Cih
will bo reneated ln New Orleans on fit
111 day February 24 after which on
tho biggest eye openings the South hi
ever known will bo held Those who iS
had the pleasure of hoarlci the ledW
which by the way Is illustrated by JjV
Jor Mnpes tho gentleman who had chirr
of tho stereoptlcon featuro of all of tl
lectures of John U Stoddard say that p
Is thoroughly enjoyable
Quite a MB
ber of tho Texas dloo Hoo will go to tii
Orescent Cltv to tuke In the lecture ml
tho concatenation as well as to enjoi Hi
various features the
carnival
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A II Baldwin traveling represeattllt
of the Houston Manufacturers assoclt ija
has Just returned from an extended trip
over the lino of tho San Antonio iii
Aransas Pass railroad Ho went it if
bouth as Corpus Chrlstl and stonptJ ti
nt all of tbo important points wcr
did somo effective work along the linj ot
lnduhtrial expansion He laid great tiKa
on tho lmportnnco of the people ot Tumi
taking Immediate steps looking to l
tho establishment of manufacturing lnd
trlcss and ln conversation with a T jr
ecntativc of The Post yesterday he natrf
that at practically every plaie vsltcJtf
saw ovidences of progrcssfon ln the t > r t
direction All eyes ho says are inM
on Houston and great things are ex ptctjJ
of the city I beard pmny compllkea
things about Tho Post said MrBita
and I always Improved the opparpafu
to impress ou tbo nilnds of thoie Trill
whom I came ln coiitact tho fact that
Tho Houston Post is the frlead if H
people
Mr W T Mcrlwqther ot Eagle Uto
opglncer in charge ot the rice pladlifaoj
of Vineyard Walker the headiniartm
of which firm are at tbe point named nl
a guest at tho Lavvlor yesterday la con
versation with a representative ot It
Post during tho day Mr Meriwethertirl
some Interest Wig information rezardbi
tho progress beng mado In the cultaa
ot rice In tho vicinity ot Eaglo Lake 11
firm would ho said place MOO acres
der cultivation during the coming >
and ho was of tho opinion that tho veaWt
would bo a successful one In every
from the fact that everything as f
vorablo to satisfactory results
Tho land ln tbc Kaglo Lake district
better adapted to rice culture than tt
of Western Louisiana he said l > ecMJ
here the land has a natural fallfromt
water instead of toward It as la Hi
Una thus obviating the necewlty otf
Ing expensive rellftlng stations in off
to properly distribute the water supfif
Our plant will havo a pumping capacity
about 20000 gallons per minute the wi
first being pumped from the Otm
river into tho lake and thence on H > J
fleldB Our canal will be about two M
a half miles In length Tbe day imM
In that vicinity is of such a natilre a w
hold the water properly and at the w
time tbo lnnd la fio eltuated that It W >
natural fall sufficient to furnish dfW
during heavy rains or overflows In IB
tlori to the 000 acres which we will f <
undor cultivation and thp 3000
Joining which will Tie handled by Caj >
William Dunovnnt there are moJWJ
of land a 1
and thousands of cres
part of tho State aa well adaptedI U
culturo of rice as any I know of v >
Plant both the Honduras and Jipsa
rleties of rlco and expect E0J
from both
It is not generally known
Meriwether that there Is WXj
the raisins or n
waste connected with
Lko In cotton practically eiterytblaf i
Lc utilized In somo way The traw
chaff including the unmerchantaW r
is al °
makes excellent feed and
ndapted for use as bedding for nop
other stock
k Iir
it js probable continued Mr
wether that Eagle lake veil
rlco mill la operation in time WJ J
tho present seasons crop The1 pi
capacity ot the mill In the frecUL
which local rapital is used will t
1000 sacks
llnnlnesil LIUe
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reject Mr Boomer Hes ms
money in tho advertising b0lne 51t ij
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