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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-12-29
A DESERVED PRO ACTION.
Mr.. z. Z. Balm Of the Pacific Express Conn
pany Goes to Galveston.

mIs -. -. DALI VI tho 1uoihO 6APtpen toAAR~
pany Goes to Galveston.
MIR. e. E. Balm who for number
of years past has been the local agent
of the Pacific Express company lefs
last night for Galveston where he
goes to look after the interests II the
company In that city. The transfer
is In the nature Of o deserved pro-
motion and is q reward for
the very efficient manner
In which he has attended to business
During his residence here he has
made large circle of warm friends,
who while they rejoice with him In
his promotion, regret see him leave.
Just before leaving last night he was
presented with the following testimon-
ial, accompanied by very handsome
diamond stud:
AUSTIN, Tex, Dec. 81, 1902.
Mr.. f. K. Balm.
DEAR SIR-It is with genuine re-.
greet that we learn you have been
transferred to another field of labor
During your long residence In Aus
tin by your uniform courtesy and the
fidelity and efficiency with which you
have managed your Office AS agent Of
the Pacific Eek press company you have
commanded the confidence and re-
spect of all classes of our people, and
wherever you go you will take our
best wishes for your future prosperity
In saying good bye we beg you to
accept this souvenir as slight testi-
monial of your friendshop and esteem,
very truly yours, John H. Robinson,
Jr., John Bremond, Jas. II. Raymond
Il Co., Austin National bank, r. J.
Breckenridge, City National bank,
Geo. w. Littlefield, l.. A. Ellis, Wal
ter Tips, Harrell & Wilcox, p. HAITI
field a. Co., N. Davis 4 Co., Mexican +,
Ellers & Co., Nicholson q Bro, Il. III.
Fhilipson, w. II. Bell, Carl Meyer, g.
A. Balm, ID. L. Iglehart. e. J. Byrne,
J. J. Tobin, w. Lochridge, J. III. War
moth, Edgar Smith, Monroe Miller,
Maj. J H. Robinson, Fl. P. Halde-
mann, ID. H. Rankin, Phil Stein. II. T.
Rife, Abe Williams.
Mr.. Balm will be succeeded here by
Mr.. p. Lockridge OF San Antonio. who
will take charge In few days. In
the meantime Mr.. Dean Jones 10 in
charge Of the office.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-12-29
AT THE. DAM.
The Work Being Vigorously Pushed Despite
| the Cold Weather.

The Work Being Vigorously Pushed Despite
the Cold Weather.
The cold weather has no effect on
the work at the dam, unless 1t be to
make the men meve little bit faster
to keep their blood In circulation and
to keep warm. 1t 10 cold job at any
time to handle the rough stone and
cIammy mortar, but on q day like
yesterday to do so In the face OF the
biting north wind 1t was indeed q
dissgreeable task. However the men
stuck to 1t and stone after stone was
placed in position, the main efforts
being directed to the old gap where
the wall was slowly being raised to
the height of the remainder OF the
long stretch of masonry.
Mr.. WaterstOn IL progressing most
favorably in his work OF excavating
for the foundation OF the power house.
He has cleaned out all the mud
and water that settled in
the mammoth pit after the
recent rains and In some places he
has gone much deeper. 80 that now
things are nearly Ia readiness for the
masons to go to work. In fact, they
have begun to lay granite at the east
end Of the dam on the bluff, forming
what will be the high guard wall fok
the power house.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-12-29
FARM NOTES.

Edited by John c. Edgar Duval to whom all
communications for this column should be nd.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-12-29

Caution: Buy only DR. Isaac Thorn pson's eye
water: Carefully o xamine the cuisine
wrapper, None other genuine.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-12-29

WANTED-,A lady agent In every county ans
ladies. GoDd position and god pay for little
work. Address @. Z. Folder. Manor. TexaA
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-12-29

r H. CALDWELL ATTORNEY AT Law
- 1J1H East seventh stree, Austin, Texas
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-12-29

.:..ror dIserdered liver try , echaIn.. Pima
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-12-29

A few days ago dry cold wind be-
gan to blow from the north west which
suggested the approach of nOrther
and thoughts of a "hog killing time"
Meeting neighboriDg farmer of more
than average intelligence. l suggest
ed the hope that norther suitable
for pork saving might be close at
hand, as some of my hogs were I'M
comfortably fat and my larder short
of meat. He replied he hoped cold
spell would not come for few days
when we would nave q change of the
moon. Although quite familiar with
| the common superstition that the
moon influences crops and should
regulate the time OF seed planting,
had not considered that the "queen OF
night" had anything TO do
with hog killing and !
confessed my ignorance to my
friend who expressed his surprise that
man who assumed to edit the agri-
cultural department. of great daily
paper should not know what any
school boy should know.
I felt his structures acntely but
sought consolation in the remember
ance that never claimed to "know II
ALL" and was always open TO learn.
My censor in spirit of generosity,
mingled with pity, acceeded to my
request and soon gave me his reasons
for killing by the moon. He said that
pork killed in the dark or decline Of
the moon. would "shrink In the fat
or shrivel up when cooked, while II
killed In the new or increasing moon,
it would increase Ia quantity and keep
better. Thanking him for his pointer
! he further informed me that animals
i, born In the dark Of the mon were not
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-12-29

than his brother in any other coun-
try, even with cotton ats5 cents, for he
has the power to control prices with
out government aid.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-11-25
AI,nrpe Diamond.

The second largest diamond in the
world is undergoing the cutting
process at Antwerp. Its WEIGHT is at
present 474 carats, but it will lose no
less than 274 carats before it Is ready
for the market. Even then, however,
1t will be second largest diamond in
the world, standing between the
eighty carats Of the persian diamond,
Great Mogul." and the 1917 carats of
the Russian "Orioff'' stone. Roughly
speaking, the Antwerp brilliant will
be about the size of pigeons egg.
In its present state it measures 2.741
inches by 1.767 inches. 1t polished
surface will measure 1856 inch each
way. Some idea of the enormous ex-
pense of the transmutation Of these
costly trihes from the natural TO the
commercial state may be gathered
from the fact that the great English
crown diamond, the KOhinoor, which
has only comparatively modest
weight Of 1925 caratS, cost no less
than $4,000 to cut and polish. The
polishing Of very large diamond is a
very slow process, and IL will be
long time before ths actual value Of
the Antwerp stone can be determined
as its luster and water cannot be de-
cided until it has left the poliSher'S
hauda.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-11-25

EARM Loans Made
4 ..,. On Short Notice.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-11-25

national guard. Briefly stated, the
verdict means that an officer has a
right to inhict corporal punishment,
including torture, upon the privateS if
10 his opinion it is desirable to do SO
in the interests of discipline, and this
without court or court martial hav-
ing first determined whether the vic
tim has been guilty of the act charged.
The verdict and the judges charge is
an authoritative recognition of torture
and barbarity as part Of the military
code Of the state. II also defines the
entertaining Of opinions antagonistic
to employing capitalists as treason and
the expressing of such opinions as
mutiny. The charge and the verdict
also involve the declaration that the
employing classes are the actuul gov
erning body Of the state, and that the
military forces are maintained for
their protection. 1t is just as well
that all should know what are the re.
lations of the officers of the national
guard to the privates, and the rela-
tions, too, Of the guard to the people.
There have been countries in the past
where armies were maintained hold.
ing such relationship to the people,
but no one makes the mistake of sup
posing that those countries were free
or that their people were fit for free
dom. There are some few countries
today where the military power is
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-11-25

but what Of itp The offense in such
cases was resistance to an officer in
dis charge Of his official duty--a mere
private controversy between parties
who wished to get possession Of their
property and those who locked them
out, in which the great state of Penn
sylyana has just as much concern and
no more than in q case OF assault and
battery. If the facts stated are true,
it was a violation of law, bat not
treason in any sense of the word.
The bloody feud between the Hathelds
and the McCoys, where armed bands
OF men were organized TO violate the
law, and where officers were resisted
and killed in their efforts to execute
the law, were examples of levying
war, If the Homestead cases were. 1
DO not know what the judges of Penn
sylvahia may decide in the heat OF
passion and under the influence Of
party prejudice, but it is simply redic-
ulOus to say that the acts referred to
constitute treason.-James 0. Broad
head in the st. Louis Republic.
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maintained to repress the people and
prevent them from claiming their
rights but these countries are properly
classed as despotisms. Among our
own Indians, among the more unclvili-
zed African tribes, and among some
few Of the more barbarous of the coan-
tries and tribes of central Asia, torture
is not considered an utterly Disgrace
full and indefensible thing, and the
courts have decided that 1t may prop
erly be inflicted upon such citizens of
Pennsylvania as have SO little regard
for their manhood as to enroll them
selves in the national guard. Red
Jacket, Pontiac, King Philip and
other Indian warriors have been
charged with having tortured their en-
emies taken in battle; it has never
been charged that any Of them tor
tured their own followers. A French
or British officer who would order
private to be hang up by his thumbs
would be dismissed the service in dis
grace as soon as court martial could
inquire into the facts. And the SOL
diers of any European army, except
possibly the Russian, would consider
any service in which torture is recog-
nized and practlced to be a disgrace
full one. Still. if the standard of con-
duct in the Pennsylvania national
guard is lower than in any civilized
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-11-25

service, and scarcely il at all higher
or more humane than what obtains
among barbarians, the judge and the
jury havo done we'll to make that fact
as clear as a charge and verdict can
make it.--Knights Of Labor Journal.
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constitution
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-11-25
The Iams Case,

Colonels Hawkins and Streator have
been found not guilty in the Jams
case. The charge of the Judge and
the verdict of the jury may be taken
as settling the legal rights of the Of
ficers and soldiers Of the Pennsylvania
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-11-25

The Chief Justice states that the au-
therity Of the Sheriff had been defied
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-06-27
HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS.

USE soapy water when making starch,
and the irons will not stick, while it
gives the clothes a glossier appearance.
If ink is spattered on woodwork it
may be taken ont by securing with
sand and water and o little ammonia;
then rinse with soda water.
SODA soap is made in this wise: To
five pounds of grease add three pounds
of washing soda and Tour gallons Of
boiling water, stirring the mixture
every day until the soap forms; then re-
ducc it to the consistency of soft soap
with water
IF You will place a few tonqua beans,
broken in halves, into the drawers and
wnrdrobcs where underwear, table and
bed linen, gloves, handl1crchiefs, ETC..
are kept, they will impart to these arti-
cles n most delicate odor which will be
extremely agreeable. Jewel boxes and
other receptaclcs may also be scented
with them. They are easily obtained
Of druggists.-Good Housekeeping.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-06-27
AUTHORS ~CHiT-cAAT..

ALPHoNsF DAuDEr's next novel will
deal with gypsies. The author has been
gathering material for the book for
many years.
"THE Princess" by Tennyson, was
written in answer to q challenge that
he had not the ability to write at
length, SAYS Prof. Clark, Of Trinity coll
lege, Ontario.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON informed o
recent visitor that he meant to live and
die in his Samoan residence; hat he had
no thought or care for affairs on the
other side Of the globe.
PIERRE LOTT is said to be q great IA
Vorite with the ladies, possibly because
he writes so entertainingly about birds,
and cats, and children. He is a small
man physically, and not much of an
Adonis in appearance.
Mr.. JAMES WhITcoMB RILEY is much
in demand nowadays as an afteradinner
speaker His prose halts a little, but
his listeners always forgive these defects
when the poet concludes his speech, as
he almost invariably does, by the reci-
tation of some OF his famous stanzas.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-06-27
KANSAS PHILOSOPHY.

WHEREVER you go, there is the same
clamor over a dollar.
MERCY to some people e license
to become greater scoundrels.
A GIRL never smiles as sweetly on her
brother as she does on the other boys.
THERE are only three grades Of people
in the world. None Of them belong to
the first grade.
EVERY man who has money Is abused
for not buying the things other people
want TO get rid of.
EVERY mans comfort for doing poor
ly is in exaggerating the obstacles that
prevented him from doing well.
A GIRL Of sixteen walks hs If she
owned the earth, and after she has been
married d few years she walks as If she
were carrying 1t on her shoulders.
WE have noticed that when you tell q
woman her daughter Is just the ihage
Of her when she was that age the
mother looks pleased and the daughter
looks scared.--Atchison Globe.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-06-27
II NATIONS SONS

IT Il said that SeAborn Wright Is tho
most magnetic public speaker in Geor.
gia. He is . youthful citizen Of Rome
with all the eloquent diction Of an old
Roman orator.
SENATOR H1scoCK Il fond of athletic
sports, and as . sprint runner has done
good work in the Columbia club, of
which he was at one time the most fleet
footed member.
Gov. FIFER, of Illinois, is tohd of .
good cigar, but to prevent his liking for
tobacco from getting the upper hand Of
him he abstains from the weed for one
week in every four.
SENATOR RICHARD COKE, Of Texas, is
a typical man of the people, plain and
blunt in speech and Indifferent to his
personal appearance. He never wears
a cravat, but his long gray beard makes
h absence of 1t unnoticeable.
PRESIDENT HARRISON, Grover Cleve-
land and Franklin Pierce are said to have
descended from colonists of Woburn,
Mass, a town which is soon to cele-
brate its two hundred and fftieth anni-
versary. The present and recent occu-
pants of the white house will be invited
to attend,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-06-27
PERSONAL FACTS

COMMODORE HENRY BRUCE, Of Massa-
chusetts, who entered the United States
navy in 1915, has been unemployed"
for fifty years.
Mr.. FRAME L. CooMBs, who has just
been appointed minister to Japan, is q
lawyer at Napa, CAL, and Is now but
thirty-six years old.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-06-27

The description of Elko county
which sp peared in these columns
during July and August has been
printed and bound in pamphlet form
and 10 now for sale at this Office at
the low price Of fifty cents per cop;
Bay a asd send Ito your fsisRds.A
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-06-27

lContinued On Srd puget
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-06-01
THO nabx ana me savage.


In the bone caves of the south Of
France have been found figures of rein
deer, mammoths and men cut on horn
or ivory, and evidently executed by art
lists contemporary with the Elephas
priinigenius. The men are represented
with short bent legs, and seem to stand
or walk in STOPPING manner with the
body bowed slightly forward from the
hips.
Now pass your hand down the back Of
any infant under ten months old and
feel the spine at the loin or lumbar re-
gion, where in the adult modern man
the back is hollow or concave. You will
observe that in the babe it is convex
like that Of quadruped "a ten-month,
old baby Is practically quadruped);
and though the child can. perhaps, get
on Its legs with the support of chair,
it does not straighten its thighs and
stand upright, but is bent forward in the,
same posture of the cave dweller, whose
portrait has come down to us from the
age just succeeding the last glacial
epoch. II the support is removed the
child falls forward and again becomes q
pseudo quadruped. -Blackwood's Maya
yipa
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EVeRYgopY,s eARpEN.


All along the wayside is everybody's gardeni
There the wild rose blossoms through the
summer days.
Bounded by field fences, and ever stretching
onward,
1t Is Gods own garden. For it, give him
praise.
IT'S gay with goldenrod,
There blooming grasses nod,
And sunhowers small and yellow turn ever in
to the sun.
Quaint darky heads are there,
And daisies Wild and fair.
In everybody's garden each flowers the love.
lest onel
All along the wayside is everybody's gardeni
Come out and gather posies; the very air IL
sweet.
Come out with Hearts Of gladness, ye big ant
little children.
Into our Fathers garden. made for our stroll
ing feet
The fitting butterfly,
The fragrant winds that sigh,
The tiny clouds that hover above us in tn
blue;
The birds song high and clear
Make heaven draw more near.
In everybody's garden the world once more /
newt
William q. Gladwin In Christian Union
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al AnAAHhte0 btDFANb AkNo1fVOAAs
The Australian lamprey has its prin-
cipal habitat in the Murray river, and
consequently in the dry seasons it is apt
to be imbedded beneath the hardened
clay, where no water is. AS the stream
recedes, the animal fills its pouch and
disappears into the soft mud below,
there to remain until the drought has
passed away, subsisting on the moisture
which it has learned to store in special
lied receptacle at the side of the head.
AS matter of fact, the fish has mas
tered the difficult question Of water stor-
age on its own account before the race
of homo sapiens has been able to solve
the same problem in the island contis
neIt.
1t is an interesting question whether
this Australian lamprey is not linger-
ing example Of the fish of Miocene ages,
and as such may be considered as an an
cestral type of European lampreys. A
sea lamprey that l examined alive,
| caught in the salmon nets of the tidal
estuary, had a dintinct tendency to
swell at either side OF the head, as IL the
pouch might be forthcoming in time Of
actual necessity II the Australian typs
is not the absolute ancestor of the British
genera, it is at least reasonable to sup
] pose that it is an older form, and that
the divergent genera and species have
descended along different lines in the
great life struggle. That the pouch Of
the antipodean lamprey is intended fol
the storage of water is fact that can
hardly be doubted by any one who has
seen the species amid its peculiar sur
roundings, -Coinhill Magazine.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-06-01
Not So Green ma He Looked.

A man entered busy city Office few
weeks ago and asked permission to use
the telephone. He walked to the corner
pointed out by one of the clerks, looked
curiously at the instrument and after q
furtive glance toward the other occu.
pants of the room took down the re-
ceiver and gently whispered into it,
"Hullo."
A broad smile passed around the room,
and one Of the younger clerks called out
in patronizing tones, ooh, no, uncle;
hang up the tube, ring the bell on the
right, then put the tube to your ear and
talk to that little hole before you"
The man obediently hung up the re,
ceiver and turned toward the speaker.
"Thank you" he said dryly, II am the
general inspector Of this telephone line =
Youths Companion.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-06-01

Two men met on a train going west.
They had known each other in the six
ties and resumed acquaintance with a
vim.
San how's that bright boy of yoursy'
asked the city man Of his old time friend
.sPeart. peart as ever. pard were
goin to make minister of him, but he
got stage struck and took to that line as
natral as duck does to water, an had
10 gin in. And he's the best shot in
Montany.'
ssTook to the stage, Ell? And has he
been successfulT
"Successful2 Well, reckon he her.
Why, their amt . man can be named
In the same day with Bill He kin drop
. grizzly in his tracks without ever
comm down from his perch"
'sWhat is his role?"
"Roll? / don't savoy, pard.
81 mean what line is he I'M"
ooh, the Mounting an Valley line that
runs to Goochville through Catamount
Grove and Grizzly Hollow. 'Taint fun
all the time either, pard, when bandits
Is layin low for yer money or yer life. T"
''Ah, he does the sensational ON the
boards. / see. A low comedian. ="
"Nothin low about Bill, c1e friend.
He just sits up on the top of the Mon.
tany stage an drives his four-in-hand ss
easy as rollin Off log. Ez l said, the
stage wuz right in his line, am hess a
thunderin good driver. Detroit Free
Press
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-06-01

Where colonies of immigrants have
remained isolated, retaining the use OF
their own language, the influence OF
witchcraft is more easily traced. The
interior Of Pennsylvania affords better
illustrations of this, and ON larger
scale than any other state. 1t has been
but two or three years since suit was
brought by man against his mother in
one of the counties of Pennsylvania to
recover damages for a dog which he
charged her with having killed by witch
craft; and he not only brought suit, but
obtained Judgment from justice of the
peace. Various witnesses testified as to
their experiences In witchcraft, and only
one said that he had never had friend
or relative who was bewitched. DIR.
Buckley in Century.