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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23
NO CROWDINa IN TEXAS.
Some Staggering Figures Regarding the
Area OF the Lone Star State.


Area Of the Lone Star State.
A recently printed statement that
the western states of America are
becoming crowded is disproved by
figures that, through various man.
ipulations, tell most wonderful
story of the length and breadth of
the magnificent empire lying west of
the Mississippi river. Of the vast area
of the larger western states, people who
have not visited them and travelled over
them have no comprehensive idea.
Texas, the largest of the United States,
has an area of 262, 300 square miles. TO
the casual reader, says Kate Fields
Washington, these figures mean but
very little; they show, however, that
the Lone Star state is more than
fifty-four times as large as the state of
Connecticut. If it were possible to run
railway train from Connecticut to
Texas and back in day, and if the
train could take the entire population
of the Nutmeg state, as given by the
last census, at every trip, and, upon its
return, there should be as many persons
in the state as there were before the
train left with its cargo, and If each
one of these people were placed upon an
acre of ground upon his arrival in Texas,
the train would be obliged to make 224
trips, or to depopulate Connecticut 224
times, before accomplishing it's mission,
and then there would remain in Texas
703, s0s empty acres. 1t may be of pass
ing interest to know that such train,
made up of coaches twenty feet long,
capable of accommodating fifty pas
sengers each, would extend over dis
tance of more than ffty-six miles.
If the entire state of Texas were
planted with corn and the hills were
two feet apart and the rows were three
feet apart, and if every man, woman
and child in the state of Connecticut
were set to work in the field to hoe the
corn, and each person was able to and
did hoe two hills in five minutes, it would
take this army of laborers seven years,
$50 days and seven hours to hoe every
hill of corn in the state, laboring con-
tinuously day and night 365 days each
year.
To those persons who have never
stopped to consider how great a country
they are living in these figures may be
of interest. The man who fears that he
could not elbow his way around in the
crowded west without chatting the nap of
his coat sleeves may gather some solace
from the statement that the entire liv-
ing population Of the globe, 1,4o0, ,00O,-
600 souls, divided into families Of five
persons each, could be located in Texas,
each family with a house on a half
acre lot, and there would still remain
30, ,000, 900 vacant family lots.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23
Road Notice.

Notice is hereby given that a petition will be
presented to the Commissioners of Highland
county at their next session, March 9Th, A. D.
1893, praying for the location Of q comfy road
on the following line, to-wit:
Beginning at the road leading from Sinking
Spring to Louden at gate east Of j. F. Gar.
mans house, near Bakers fork of Brush Greek
thence with road up the creek to the first
crossing thence crossing the creek to the east
side through gate on the land of Isaac Over
holtz thence on the east side Of the creek
through the lands Of W. T. Simmons, passing
the house on the west side; thence up the creek
on the east side far enough from the creek to
make good road. crossing the creek to the
west side Is soon Is : road can be got on that
side !; thence through the lands of r. u. Gar
man Just east Of small orchard, passing the
house and barn thence straight ACROSS the
road leading from Sinking Spring to Belfast
thence straight, or winding the bill on W. g.
Conway's land to make the best road, to stake
neas culvert in the pike No. "a, distance oi
one mile more or less.
]. F. GARMAN AND OTHERS.
Hillsboro, o., January 26th, A. d. 1898.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23
THE POWER OF WATER.

Constantly Working In One Form or An
other to Destroy the Land.
A southern engineer contributes an
article on Geology and the Mississippi
Problem" to the Engineering Magazine.
In It he says:
''We find in water the only treless
agent that works in the modification Of
continents; and instead of being the
great renovator Of the land 1t is pop
ularly conceived, it is the great destroy
er. The destruction Of ancient Rome
has been attributed 10 time. But it was
due simply to the moisture of the at
mosphere working through chemical
agencies. 1t was water, invisible
but penetrating the very stones Of the
wonderful city, that caused her to
crumble into ruins, and gave to modern
Rome grade greatly elevated above
her ancient grade. But it works not
alone in the cities and towns. There is
not hill on earth that has not been
shorn of something of its altitude by
this subtitle force, and there is not a
mountain on earth, If not fitfully re-
newed by volcanic action, that has not
been compelled to lower its peak be-
fore this universal leveler of the ex-
alted. 1t may be dreadful thought,
indeed, but we do not know absolutely
that we are not dependent on the earth
quake and the volcano for keeping our
continental habitat above the level Of
the ocean; for water not only destroys,
but it has the persistency and force to
carry off to its burial place in the sea
all that it has caused to perish. 1t may
take long time at its task, but, work.
ing either In its gaseous, its liquid, or
its solid form, 1t seems to be the most
persistent thing on earth, never perish
ing, and, however divided and invisible
at times, always ready to unite its forces
for supreme effort at the degradation
NJ a continant
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23
WHITE WINGS NO MORE.

Prospect of Riding from Cape Horn to
Cape Town by Continuous Rail.
1t adds something to the zest of life
If one has healthy and active fancy
to reflect that there are people now
living who may travel by continuous
rail from Cape Horn to the Cape of
Good Hope. The plan of a 'pan-Amer-
lean" railway to connect the South
American systems through Central
America, with the systems of Mexico
and the United States, is already well
advanced. There are, says the Review
of Reviews, to be roads from the Cana
dian Pacific away up to the Peace river
and Mackenzie valleys, and 1T is not
very hard to believe that these may
ultimately be extended across the
Rockies to the Ukon valley in Alaska,
and continued finally to the narrow and
shallow Behring straits, across which a
connection would be made with the
Siberian road. Continuous rail travel
from Siberia to Constantinople will
soon have become an accomplished fact,
and the link from Constantinople to
Egypt nay be expected quite conf
IDENTIFY. At the present rate of develop
ments in Africa the construction of a
road from Egypt to the Cape ought to
be realized within twenty-five years.
The channel tunnel will, of course,
have been built, and electricity or some
still more powerful motive forceowill
have superseded steam; SO that the Cali
fornians and Puget sound denizens
would naturally go to London by fast
Alaskan and Siberian express. If they
chose they might return by steamship,
making the passage in two or three
days from the west coast of Ireland to
Labrador or Halifax. In view of all
that has been done in the past twenty
five years such further development OF
travelling facilities is easily within the
| realm of sober prediction
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23
SAVED BY HIS HORSE.
Very Peculiar Escape of Man from a
Break In the Ice.

Very Peculiar Escape of Man from a
Break In the Ice.
The story comes up from below the
city, says the Lewiston (Me.) Journal,
about man who attempted to cross
swamped, together with his team. He
had been hauling wood across the river
for several days, and had just one more
load to haul.
As the water was up on the face OF
the ice he first thought to put off haul
ing 1t, but the thought that perhaps
there would not be another chance to
haul 1t made him 60 across. When he
started back he thought he wouldn't 60
in the same track where he had hauled
the rest, so he went little above.
The ice began to crack slowly when
he got to the middle. Quick as fash
he unfastened the two tugs and one
holdback. Then he struck the horse
violently with the whip. At the same
time the sled load of wood went
through with a crash. He commenced
to sink with it, but when the horse had
been struck he jumped ahead and,
breaking the off holdback, jerked the
man off the load and dragged him to
the shore with the reins. There he
stopped and the man got up.
When he looked back the top of the
wood and the shafts could be seen stick
ing out of the hole in the ice. He says
that he had rather lose the wood than
go near the hole again. 1t is frozen in
nNyu
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23

English society is raising national
lament because men no longer dance
Hostesses have for long time been at
their wits end to secure partners for
young women at balls and dancing par
ties. Now the situation is worse than
ever and remedies are being eagerly
sought. The suggestion Is publicly dis
cussed that dancing agency be estab-
lished similar to such institutions in
Paris and Berlin. Hired guests, armed
with guarantees of fitness and respecta-
biiity, would appear at the proper hour,
warranted to dance every number on
the card and not give more than three
dances to one young woman. Some
such plan seems TO he the only hope OF
saving the art of dancing In England
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23
Guaranteed Cure.

We authorize our advertised druggists
to sell you DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds,
upon this condition. If you are afflicted
with La Grippe and will use this remedy
according to directions, giving it a fair
trial, and experience no benefit, YOU
may return the bottle and have your
money refunded. We make this offer.
because OF the wonderful success of DR..
Kings New Discovery during last sea.
sons epidemic. Have heard of no case
in which it failed. Tryit. Trial bottles
free at Seybert & Co.'s drug store. Large
size 80 cents and ST..
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23

The senior proprietor of this paper
has been subject to frequent colds for
some years, which were sure to lay him
up if not doctored at once. He finds
that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is
reliable. 1t opens the secretions, re-
lieves the lungs and restores the system
to healthy condition. If freely used as
soon as the cold has been contracted,
and before it has become settled in the
system, it greatly lessons the attack and
often cures in single day what would
otherwise have been severe cold.-
Northwestern Hotel Reporter, Des Moines,
Iowa. 25 and 80 cent bottles for sale by
Seybert & Co.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23
Cook Book Free.

On receipt of ten cents in stamps or
coin the O., H. & D. will send copy of
the Martha Washington Cook Book,
postpaid, to any address. The book
comprises over 300 pages and is fully
illustrated. 1t is the standard authority
on the famous dining cars that run daily
between Cincinnati and Chicago on the
"Velvet Train" of the G., H. & D. and
Monon Route. Address E. O. McCor-
mick, G. P. and T. Agt. c., H. & D., Gin.
cinnati, o. The G., H. & D., in connec-
ton with the Monon, is the Worlds
Fair Route to Chicago.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23
ZONE SYSTEM IN HUNGARY.
Oficial Figures show 1t IL q Complete
Success,

Three years ago the Hungarian gov
ernment adopted the zone system Of
rates for railroad fares. The principle
involved large reduction in rates, es-
pecially to 1ong-distance travellers. With
Buda .Pesth as center, the circumfer-
ence of the first zone was about one hun
dred miles away, the second two hun
dred and SO on to the extreme limits of
Hungary. Only slight reduction in rates
was made in the first zone, much larger
in the second, and increasingly larger
in the outer zones. The gross reduction
was in the neighborhood of sixty per
cent. Hungary was an ideal place for
trying the plan, as all roads run to
Buda-Pesth and the city itself was prac
tically in the center of the country.
Railroad men everywhere declared the
plan foredoomed to failure, even where
Hungary.
The first official figures on the sys-
tenn have been published Commenting
on them, Transport says:
Excellent results have, according to
the official figures just published, been
shown by the working of the zone sys-
tenn on the railways of Hungary. The
eyes of Europe have been turned with a
good deal of curiosity and interest to
this, the most daring and systematic
method of discrimination in favor of the
long distance as against the short dis
tance traveller in the world. The vari-
Gus zones or circles within which GER
tain fares are charged are fixed by reg
ulation, the principle adopted being the
greater the distance from the capital
the less the proportional rate per mile
travelled. The system has been greatly
appreciated by the people living in the
more distant parts of the country, as
the result shows. For some years be-
fore the introduction of the system the
number of travellers averaged 100000
annually. In the first year of the zone
tariff the number rose to 10000, 900; the
second years returns showed that 49,
600, 900 had used the railways, while
during the third year the number of
travellers totaled 90, 900, 900. 1t is salts
factory to note corresponding rise in
the receipts, advancing from 9,7o5,O00
gulden during the last year of the old
system to 2S,3O0, 900 gulden during the
year just closed"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23
A QUEENS PRIVILEGES.
victoris May order q Whole Opera Con-
pany to Sing for Her.

victoris May order q Whole Opera Com
psny to Sing for Her.
There are some delightful preroga-
tives incident to the high estate of en-
press-queen which would go far toward
reconciling one to being as stout and
short as is the present very worthy in
cumbent of the English throne. Fancy
being able to command an entire opera
company to come to you at your home,
with all of their paraphernalia, instead
of hustling through your dinner and
racing up elevated stairs, hanging on
straps in street cars, spelling your tenn
per and best gloves, all to get to your
seat in the close and crowded theater
before the first act is over.
The queen, according to the Boston
Globe, manifests an increasing interest
in this form of diversion, and although
the year of mourning for the duke of
Clarence has not yet passed, Mile. de
Lussan has been summoned twice to ap-
pear before her majesty, the last time
in the title role of Carmen" Nearly a
thousand pounds were spent in the pre-
liminary preparation of the Waterloo
chamber for the performance, quite
apart from the expense incurred in
bringing down the company and special
scenery, and large contingent of roy
atty was on hand, In brilliant dress and
handsome jewels, to give the popular
American prima donna the stimulus of
appreciative applause. The queen came
in dressed in black, leaning lightly on
her ebony staff, and apparently in the
best OF spirits. She applauded fire.
quently, tapping her fan on the gilt
table in front of her chair, and when
the performance was oversize presented
Miss de Lussar with diamond pin and
most cordial congratulatioas on hes
success and talent
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23
Cheap Excursion to Florida. .-Balti.
more & Ohio Southwestern r. r.

The B. & o. s. w. R. R. will sell ex-
cursion tickets at one iare for the round
trip from all stations to DeLeon Springs,
Florida, January 25th, 1898, good going
fifteen days and returning to and includ-
ing May 3lst. The National Spiritual
and Liberal Association will hold it's
convention at DeLeon Springs, Florida,
January Goth, but the excursion tickets
will be sold to all applicants.
Any one contemplating trip to Flor
ida should address B. & o. S. w. Ticket
Agents, w. E. Reppert, Division Passen.
ger Agent, 270 North High street, CO.
lumbus, Ohio, or o. P. McCarty, Gen'l
Passenger Agent, Cincinnati, o.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23

After a burglar in San Francisco
clothing store had packed up two valises
of goods he came face to face with his
reflection in large mirror, fred two
bullets into the image, thinking it was
the watchn,an, and barely escaped be.
fore the arrival of the policemen whom
his shots summoned.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23
A DUTY TO YOURSELF.

1t is surprising that people will use a
common, ordinary pill when they can
secure valuable English one for the
same money. DR.. Acker's English pills
are a positive cure for sick-headache and
all liver troubles. They are small, sweat,
easily taken, and do not gfipe.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23
Highest market price paid for good
milling wheat at Model City Mills.
EVANS & INQUIRE.
WE CAN AND DO

Guarantee DIR. Acker's Blood Elixir, for
it has been fully demonstrated to the
people of this county that it is superior
to all other preparations for blood dis
eases. 1t is a positive cure for syphilitic
poisoning, Ulcers, Eruptions and Pimples.
It purifies the whole system and
thoroughly builds up the constitution.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23

The highest white oak tree in Monroe
county, Mich, is on the farm of R. P.
rngersoll, in Dundee. 1t is more than
six feet in diameter three and one.half
feet from the ground, and holds it's size
for fifty or sixty feet. 1t is in splendid
condition.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23

Philip Baumgartner, a prisoner ar.
raigned in police court in New York
city on Saturday on the charge of bigamy,
has been married three times. He claims
that each of his three wives presented
him with twins.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23

The latest fad in edibles is ginger
sandwiches, which consist of delicate
slices of bread with candied ginger be.
tween them.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23

James Gibbyns, who fred the first gun
at Fort Sumter, is still living at Erie, Pa.
He was soldier in the United States
service for many years
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23

Itch, mango, and scratches on human
or animals cured in 80 minutes by Wool.
ford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails.
Sold by w. R. Smith & Co., druggist
Hillshoro.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-06
NEVAOA'S CLIMATE.

The climate of Nevada is dry, pure
and healthy. No country in the
world is more free from Infectious dis
eases, and epidemics ere unknown.
The seasons change with less regular
ity than in the States east OF the
Rocky Mountains and extremes Of
heat and cold are seldom experienced.
The sun usually shines bright and
clear until in December, the nights
being cool the year round in all parts
of the State. This marked popularity
of climate is due to the cooling effect
of the many ranges Of snow-covered
mountains. The moisture Of the
clouds is condensed on the mountain
tops, the valleys receiving but a limit
ed amount of rain, and fogs are un-
known. Our high altitude naturally
promotes longevity, making the State
a great sanitarium for consumptives.
Few, if any, children born here are
afflicted with lung troubles of the ma
ture Of consumption; which gives the
most reasonable assurance that under
our sunny skies, delicate childhood
has the opportunity to develop into
robust manhood and wOmanhood.
From these facts we may reasonably
infer that amid such favorable condi-
tions, Nevada will yet give to tho
world the finest specimens Of phys
ical, as we trust it will also, of
moral and intellectual manhood in
America.
Many beautiful Summer resorts for
lnvalids and health seekers would he
found in Nevada were proper methods
used to bring them prominently into
notice.
This climatic feat Ire has q very
great influence upon certain indus
tres, among which grazing is notable.
In ordinary Winters stock thrive bet
ter on the ranges and valleys, where
white sage and other herbacous plants
continue to give forth their nutri-
tious heritage, than if fed on hay
From Report of General
John K. Jones.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-06
Secret Political Societies.

Secret societies that have only pc
litical objects never yet accomplished
good. State craft is not secrecy. nor
is it craft. The secret political So
ciety car accomplish nothing. Good
men may venture to JOIN it, but not
in effectual numbers. Those who
hope to do mischief and find accom-
plices to aid in concealment will be
eager recruits, and thus will the 80
ciety fail. Political reformations
m ust be through the education of the
multitude. The Populists have just
assimilated a secret society, the In
dustrial Legion, and that begins the
end OF the I. T.. The commander is
Paul Vandervoort, Past Commander
in-Chief of the G. A. R.-LStockton
Republican.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-06

The Silver State says Captain Ferd
Reid, Deputy Internal Revenue Col
~lector, has been taken to the German
Hospital, San Francisco, for treat
ment. lie al taken i'll over a month
ago and has been confined to his bed
over since. He was accompanied by
his wife and III. f. Nofsinger.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-06

A fine display OF silver wa~re,fancy
dishes, lamps, knives, forks, spoons
etc., at the EFT. M. Co.'S. Call and
inspect these goods, which are the
finest 10 their line ever brought to
Elko. 4
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-06
Dissolution of Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that the
partnership existing between b. B..
Ennor and r. Q. Cunningham, in the
retail butchering business in tho
town OF Carlin, Elko county, Nevada
is this day dissolved by mutual con
sent.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-06

Protect your weak eyes from the
Injurious effect OF sun and snow glass
by getting a pair Of dark glasses at
Muller's.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-06
r. Q. CUNNINGHAM,
Il. Is. ENNoR.

Carlin, Nov. %, 1892. I1-26 On