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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-19
"STOP THE COURTS FROM BREAK
ING WILLS"


Under this heading the New York
Herald of the End had most eXcell-
ent editorial, which is almost bodily
here reproduced. This is question
affecting not only New York but
every state in the Union, and The
STATESMAN is with the Herald in de-
manding that testators shall have
their purpose prevail. They made
their money and our laws have said
they can dispose Oft as they see fit
under certain general and well under
stood restrictions. Our courts should
be held to the intent of the testator
and they should not allow mere tech
nicalities to overthrow his will. The
Herald is certainly right in the follow
ing editorial
There is every reason why the court
of appeals should grant the applica-
ton that is to be made for reconsid-
Grafton of the Tilden will case. There
is little ground for hope that it will
do so.
OF the eleven judges on the appeals
and supreme benches who passed on
the question only six were found to be
against the will. Five stoutly main
tanned that the document was in due
legal form and that there was no war
rant for defeating Mr.. Tilden's last
wishes and depriving the public Of
his munificent benefaction.
In both these tribunals taken to-
gether, and in each separately, the
decision was based on bare majority
of one. That should have raised in
the minds of the majority at least
doubt, and the benefit of the doubt
should have been given to the trust.
No mans will can rightly be set aside
by the courts unless its inValidity is
clear beyond reasonable question.
This principle has special force where
to break will is to defeat the pur-
pose of testator to benefit mankind.
Mr.. Tilden's purpose was most COM
mendable. 1t was clearly expressed.
He had a perfect right to devote his
wealth to it. On these points there
was no dispute. The only question
was whether there was legal flaw
in the form of the will. Five Judges
out of seven said no. Under these
circumstances the breaking of the will
was indefensible. A judicial wrong
was done which should be righted.
But judges are not given to reconsid-
ering their decisions. They are apt to
stick to them, right or wrong.
In this city and state alone millions
of dollars willed by wealthy philan-
thropists to charitable uses and pub
lie purposes have been diverted from
their rightful channels by the courts.
Judges have substituted their own
edicts for the last directions Of tesla
tors. They have broken wills with
out number and given vast properties
to contestants in violation of plain
terms to the contrary. They have
made the disposition of wealth de-
pendent on the wishes of disappoint-
ed heirs instead of the will of tesla
tors.
All this has been done not in accor-
dance with any statute enacted by the
legislature or in obedience to any law
made by the people. 1t is the mis-
chievous work Of the judicial law
making-laws made by judges. 1t is
simply the enforcement of court doc
trines, the theories Matched by judges
and nursed by maturity through a
slavish adherence to precedent. To
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-19

Young counties made reports covering
their collections for October.
The revenue deposits for the day
amounted to $2336.06.
The comptroller purchased $4,000
of the Coke county court house bonds.
The following railroads have made
their reports for the quarter ending
Sept. 3, for the passenger tax on the
gross earnings Of their lines:
Texas and Pacific, S2522.44 Calves
ton, Houston and Henderson, $l9S. O5:
Houston and Great Northern, $412. 81:
Georgetown road, S20.97; Henderson
and Overton, $l3.77; Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe, $lSlS.l2; Texas Crl-ul,
$172Ol; Texas, Central and = "th-
western, $50. %; Houston and I'rlas
Central, $lS9S.S2; Fort Worth and New
Orleans, 500; Texas Mexican, S85. TO-:
Fort Worth and Denver City, Si2S2. So;
Wichita Valley, $i4.71.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-19
Secretary of State.

No charters were filed in this Office
yesterday, but late on Wednesday
evening the Typewriter Supply and
Stationary company applied for one,
which was granted. The place of
business will be Austin, while the
capital stock will be $4,000. The
directors are H. w. Dodge, Jr., VIM.
H. Stacy and j. L. Shipman.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-19
Department of Education.

The county treasurer's annual state
ment of receipts and disbursements of
public school funds in the county of
Mitchell for the year ending August
3lst, 1891, was received yesterday,
showing the receipts for the year S.
$685.; expenses, $5,7Sl.0O; balance,
81, 1lG.45.
The county superintendent of Bra
zoria county reports on the school af-
fairs Of his county for the past year,
showing the number Of the schools in
the county to be eighty and the aver
age daily attendance 1905.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-19
The Comptroller.

Revenue deposits for the day
amounted to Sl2,0i4.56.
Collectors of the following counties
sent in their reports and remittances
to cover October collections yesterday:
Bee, Crockett, Falls, Jones, Martin
Navarro, Nolan, San Augustine, SUIT
ton and Tarrant. Twenty two counties
which have not yet antied, have been
notified by the comptroller that their
reports and cash would be acceptable.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-19
Military Matters.

The following order, general order
No. %, was issued yesterday:
The new system of drill regulations
having been approved by the presi-
dent Of the United States, ii is hereby
adopted for the government and OBJ
servance of the Texas Volunteer
Guard.
Examination of officers in tactics
under the requirements Of general
order No. II, issued September I, 1891,
will be carried on under the new drill
regulations. By order commander in
chief, w. H. MABRY.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-19
General Land Office.


One lease was awarded yesterday:
p. H. Wentworth, through Maddox
Bros. & Anderson Of Austin, leasing
1880 acres in Sutton county.
SALES.
81. McCracken of Della Plain, GAO
acres in Floyd county.
3. j. Averitt of Tulia, GAO acres in
Swisher county.
R. J. Hodges of Wayland, 100 acres
in Stephens county.
f. F. Balm of Matador, 100 acres in
Motley county.
G. G. Page of Panhandle, 800 acres
in Carson county.
w. F. Wood of Vernon, 80 1-2 acres
in Wilbarger county.
All the foregoing sales were at the
rate of s. per acre.
[FROM FRIDAYS DAILY.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-19
The comptroller.

Warrants were drawn under the
wolf scalp law yesterday as follows:
Midland SlSl5O, Wise $3S.42, Lip
scOmb S51.3O, Kinney S349.5O, IriOn
SO, Stirling $lSS.75, Concho $65.33,
Kendall SIG, Comal SIG, Refugio 500,
Duval $4l6.Ol, Dimmit $l175.90, total
$2617.l1.
In view of the fact that under the
operation of this law the respective
counties have to pay one-half of the
bounty it is very evident that some of
the smaller counties of the state will
be in a state of financial collapse at
no very distant day.
The collectors Of Baylor, Waller and
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-19
The Railroad Commission.

Comptroller Asker received two
more reports from Texas railroads yes
terday, the st. Louis Southwestern
and the receivers of the st. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-19
General Manager
The Railroad Commission.

The only thing out Of the usual
routine work done in this Office
yesterday was the issuance Of the fol-
lowing circular amending the recent
~ promulgated lumber tariff:
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-10
THE NAVAL ACADEMY.
Board OF Visitors Recommend Changes
in Rules and Studies.

Board OF Visitors Recommend Changes
i'm Rules and Studies.
WASHINGTON CITY, July s.-The board OF Wis
itors to the Annapolis naval academy made re-
port to the secretary of the navy upon its visit
there last June. A number of recommendations
were made. among them being the following:
That the age of admission TO the academy be
fixed from 10 to is years instead of 10 to 20, as
now.
That the law providing a donation OF one
years sea pay, amounting to $3.50, TO cadets not
entering the service at the end of the six years
course, be repealed.
That every cadet shall be appointed one year
in advance of entrance, except when, by reason
of death, or other cause, a vacancy occurs, which
cannot be provided for oy such appointment in
advance.
That no cadet reported deficient in either con-
duct or studies and recommended for discharge
by the academic board, shall, unless upon the
recommendation of that board, be retained or
reappointed in the academy or appointed to any
place in the navy until his class shall have left
the academy and received their commissions.
The board carefully and fully discussed the
question of the adoption of plan under con-
sderation by the department, whereby the six
years course prescribed for cadets ia to be
wholly under the supervision of the superin-
tendent and academic board of the academy
The board indorses the plan as appearing feast.
BILE and practicable. The board believes that a
Encouragement of the six years course will do
much to correct improper grading in standards
OF admission and graduation, but says that in
order to make the course in engineering more
equivalent to thst provided by the best tech
meal institutions in the country, there should
be the theoretical aud practical branches in
cluded in the course.
Attention is directed to the necessity for CIV
ing greater attention than at present arranged
to the study of international law.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-10

Miss La Rose was q handsome bru-
nette, with beautiful teeth and eyes to
make her smiles enhancing; the shrugs
of her plump shoulders and coquettish
vivacity OF manner being more eloquent
than both languages her tongue could
speak. The young editor had come to the
table d. hOte, had seen two starry eyes and
the dark, curly tresses of lovely girl at
her sweetest of teens. The poetic faculty
in his humorous brain awoke. He sought
an acquaintance with the lovely stranger
but many were the letters, and sweet and
tender the poems in her praise from his
brilliant pen, before the gentle heart was
won. They were married April q, 1878,
and lived In Savannah until the summer
OF 1876, when an epidemic OF yellow fever
drove them to Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Harris was born in 1854 near Al
bany, n. Y, and is the ideal wife of her
distinguished husband. She makes scrap
books for him of his best newspaper ar
ticies. the reviews of his books and
sketches of himself from various sources.
She also takes care of the many appreciat-
i've letters he receives from the most fam
Gus writers all over the world. Not long
ago she took up volume of French fairy
tales and folklore, which she rendered
into English while her grateful husband
wrote them down. But she laughingly
declares that her accomplishments have
dwindled down to two-the making of fine
butter and getting the little ones off to bed
by 8 O'Clock.
Mrs. Harris then spends the evening
with her husband. He writes his stories
at night. While he writes she sews or
reads, or does some dainty fancy work.
She has the gift of "good humor," and the
art of making it contagious. She is the
business manager" of the firm, as her lit
erary lord confesses, and has been success
full in that capacity. She keeps house
thoroughly, and makes her home so at
tractive to her family that her boys find
their chief pleasures at home.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-10
FURY OF A WOMAN sCoRNED.
Mrs.aLycett Green, Whom Gordon Cum
ming Discarded, Gains Revenge.
New York Recorder

ming Discarded, Gains Revenge.
New York Recorder.
The names of three women-Lady Cole
ridge, Mrs. Lycett Green and her mother,
Mrs. Arthur Wilson-will henceforth be as
ISOLATED in the public mind with the cruel
and assuredly undeserved fate which has
overtaken Colonel Sir William Gordon
Cumming. The latter is primarily in
debted for his misfortunes to the bitter
and unrelenting vengeance of woman.
The fair one in question is not, as APP
pears to be generally supposed, Lady
Brooke, for Lady Brooke was not even a
member of the Tranbycroft house
party, having been prevented at the
last moment from accepting the invitation
by the death of her stepfather, the
Earl of Roslyn. The woman in the case is
Mrs. Lycett Green, the married daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Wilson.
Three years ago she rendered herself some
what conspicuous in London by her verv
pronounced hirtation-public rumor called
it by a worse name-with Sir William
Gordon-Cumming.
Suddenly the intimacy ceased. Sir Will
liam was no longer seen at her house
or in her company. and report had
it that. the interruption of the
relations was due to his fckleness,
uOt 10 HcTS. tuulRudnt bcyOuu measure
at this desertion, Mrs Green, like many
other women, was able to succeed in per-
suading her husband-a parvenu like her
self-to share her resentment. Neither
the Wilson's nor the Greens were
on terms of personal acquaintance
with the Prince of Wales at the
time, and it has been stated that
Sir Williams quarrel with Mrs. Green was
owing to his objection to make use of his
great intimacy with the heir apparent to
iinduct them into the so-called MARI
borough house set.
From that time forth Mrs. Lycett Green,
her husband, her mother and her brother,
have been sworn enemies of Sir William.
They have determined to get even with him
for the slight which he had put upon them,
as well as for the supercilliousness of his
attitude toward them. The action of the
Prince of Wales in inviting Sir William to
join the Tranbycroft house party-for be
was the princes guest. not Mrs. Wilson's
gave them their opportunity, and their
revenge took the form most certain to-
prove effective.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-10
Hints for Haymakers.
Des Moines Farm Journal.


II will not be very long until haying, and
1t is good thing to remember that it is
better to cut hay two days too soon than
one day too late. Ripe seed that scatters
in moving loses for the haymaker the
most concentrated and nutritious part of
the crop. Better to cut when the seed is
immature than when it scatters. For tim
othy, when the seed is just leaving the
dough the grass is probably the richest and
heaviest as whole, while orchard grass
and some others can be cut even earlier To
advantage. For butter early cut hay IL
better, not so much for quantity, perhaps.
as for color, aroma and quality, and young
stock enjoy its superior palatabieness'
Indeed, in earlier cutting there has al
ways seemed to us gain in the stem and
leaves that compensates for possible loss
in the somewhat decreased nutritiye quail
ity of the seeds. Glover should be cut
when the heads are Drowned or browning
10 save the rich leaves that will be scat
tered if the cutting be later Where the
crop is to be fed out the difference in man
urial value--ahd there is thought to be a
difference in favor of late cutting-is
small, provided the system of saving the
manure be good one.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-10

Never Knock the Ball Upward-Don,t
Hit 1t Exactly Over the pl.ta

W. J. Henderson in Harpers Young Peonle
Inc scientific batsman's first obiect is To
hit the bali safely. 1t is better To he sure
oil making first base than to have chance
and only chance of making home run
Of course, when boy sees three men ON
bases when he is at the bat, he wishes to
make athree-bagger snd bring them ALI
nome. but there are very few bows under
the age OF IL who can hit bali far enouoh
70 make three-bagger Better learn 10
hit the Dali safely for one base now land
bring In one OF those men with certaintyl
eho after while, when you become
etrong, you can retain the science. and hit
for more bases at time
NOW the young reader will at once saw 10
me. w mere am | 10 send the hall i'm order
20 make safe hit and how am to do il 9r
The safe territory Tor ball that Is not a
Eroinusr Is between the in-fielders and
out-helNers. Ii You can drive a ball from
ten TO niteen feet above the ground. or
even ~ enty ieet, so that il will lust clear
The shsTt stop or the second-haseman.
{sl1ing n left or right field. short of the
islders, you are sure Of first base unless
you are = remarkably bad runner. II Won
can hit a swift grounder between anv TWO
scf the n-feiders, you are safe. hut II il
much harder to do than the other the mn.
covered ground being so much less in ex.
tkns.
The kind OF batting which have de-
ucribed does not require hard hitting on
The contrary, you must not put forth All
yonr strength or you will hit too far
When you begin to try this kind of hat.
ting your friends will become imnatien.
when you make strike. and cry ont. .soh
bit At IT." Pay no attention to them but
20 IN with your head-work in batting. and
Altar sine you will surprise them. The
fss thing to acquire is a good position at
tse bat This is one of the things which
hegs negleet. They take any position that
e. aes Suggests. and fall into the hahi; of
n = IL saying, That's the way stand.
Tissts ) good and bad ways of doing
leyn 81 W, even of breathing; so there
are ret and bad WAYS Of facing pitcher.
Nay IS fail into the habit of standing
vfsh M bat resting on the shoulder and
D. Il "a or loosely. Now every inch of
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-10

Officer Thorn arrested two Chinese boys, Zoe
Mark and All Yung, in North Seattle this
morning about o'clock on suspicion
of being illegally in the United States One of
them is II and the other Is years of age, and as
they were coming toward lower town
the officer overheard them ask a hackman
where chinatown" was. He volunteered to
escort them to chinatown" which tickled
them so much they went along clapping their
hands. But they felt a little crestfalien
when they found themselves at the police sta.
ton. Two Cinnamon saw the officer taking
them up and in . few minutes half a
score of celestials were up to get them
out, but their contradictory statements only
convinced Captain Peer that the boys really
were contrsband and he refused to let them 90.
One Chinaman claimed that they were
brothers; that their father was here
and the boys had run away from Gee Lees
store because their father had whipped them.
Another, who came in later, when oues-
toned privately, said the father of one
was in San Francisco: that the BOYS were
cousins. but he could not tell where they be-
longed He finally admitted that the father was
in China and that he knew nothing .bout
them previously. They evidently came In from
Victoria by steamer, were landed at Smiths
cove or Salmon bay, and were walking in under
cover OF darkness to avoid detection,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-10
SILKS.

600 yards fancy striped silk at SOC per yard;
reduced from $l.25.
500 Yards fancy brocaded silk at SOC per
yard; reduced from s1.25.
AS yards fancy brocaded silk at 8711c per
pard reduced from $1.50.
400 yards fancy striped silk at S713c per
yard reduced from $3.50.
375 yards fancy striped silk at 95c per yard;
reduced from ST. so.
AS yards fancy brocaded silk at e5c per
yard; reduced from $3.50.
600 yards fancy brocaded silk at $l.25 per
yard; reduced from $L.75.
$50 yards fancy striped silk at $1.25 per
yard; reduced from $1.75.
$50 yards fancy striped silk at $1.9o per
yard; reduced from $500.
400 yards fancy brocaded silk at SL95 per
yard; reduced from $500.
500 yards fancy brocaded silk at $2.2S per
yard; reduced from $3.50.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-10

school Bond Question--New Buildings
and New Coal and Iron Mines.


HAMILTON, July THE Hamilton school
board today issued q call for an election to vote
5000 bonds for schoolhouse on the new
grounds lately prepared for 1t. The sentiment is
almost unanimously In favor OF the bonds, as
the schoolhouse ID greatly needed.
c. b. Mcdowell has bought the brick and let
the contract for the erection Of double store
building. 5ox6o feet The walls are to be twelve
inches thick, of brick and stone.
A crew OF fourteen men left Hamilton this
morning for the Boston mine, In the Cascade
mining district. to work on development
force Of twenty-five 10 already employed there
by the Helena mining syndicate, under the
direction of Dan Ferguson.
Il w. Hohensee, prospector, has within the
past week located new and splendid finds of
coal, iron and asbestos. all within eight miles
OF Hamilton. The samples Of ssbestos brought
In by him show fiber three to Eve inches long
and as tough a. cotton warp. It was taken from
beneath huge boulder, the weight of which
gave pressure to the deposit
Mayor J. b. Wiley and Councilman C. G. shep-
ard have coal mine three and one-haIf miles
distant which they have christened ssFourth of
july" because they found IL on that memorable
day. 1t shows eight feet of coal on the crop
pings.
William N. Mcknight, vice president of the
Hamilton Townsite Company, is transacting
business ~ the eompanys Seattle Office this
week.
Colonel N. c. Thnm, local representative OF
the Great Northern's Hamilton interests, as
president OF the street railway now building in
Faiyhaven, is OF for three weeks attention To
that end of his business.
Satisfactory freight rates having been ar
ranged, cargo OF birdsese maple ia being sawed
by the Hamilton saw mill for the san Francisco
market where IL commands high figure. It's
. rare wood, but grows sbundantly In thi, i'm
mediate section of the Skagit valley. Though II
commands 800 per 1000 feet In New York city
tor ornamental woodwork. 1t has been extern
siveiy used hero for wooden rails for logging
trsmways, and for firewood,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-10
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs BALL.
A Successful Affair Given Last Night Mt
the Armory.

A Successful Affair Given Last Night Mt
the Armory.
The public installation and reception by the
Knights of Pvthias lodges of the city was given
last night at the Armory and proved a complete
and perfect success. The lodges that took part
were Harmony, No. 5; Queen City, No. 10; North
Star, No. 40: Seattle, No. 81, and Puget Sound,
No. Il, assisted by Seattle Division, No. /, Uni
form Rank.
The following was the programme:
Opening song-"Festival Concert Band -.
Gounod Singing Club, under direction Of
Professor Darling
Installation of Officers. Grand Chancellor,
Pythian Address. .... Hon. J. Hamilton Lewis
Violin Solo, Bailade Polonaise de Concerto.
Dr.. M. w. Frederick; DR.. Palmer, Ae-
companist
Recitation. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Miss Alice Carey
Piano solo,. MI Warburton
s sese.lShs Night Als mcI Berger
Gounod Singing Club.
Closing Remarks. The Grand Chancellor
Chancellor Commander F. 8. Breese presided,
General ]. B. Metcalfe was the master of cere-
monies, and Mr.. E. Morgenstern was floor direc.
tor. The literary programme was followed by
hop and refreshments The speeches of Colonel
James Hamilton Lewis and Judge Osborn were
we'll received and proved very interesting.
Following are the committees under whose
auspices the affair was given: Committee of
arrangements-W.K ierski, E. Morgenstern, Th
Price, George Lee, Sam Williamson. Reception
committee-W. S. Wilson, W. II. Cowie, z. F.
Blaine, w. l. Amss, c. Cowden, l. Holsetter r
Osband, NJ. Koch, V. Faben, William Kierski,
Fred Page-Tustin. Floor managers-I Korn,
W. F. Collins, J. f. Miller, Thomas H. Price
Oh. Nissin, S. Williamson, Andrew J. Lee.