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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-10-19

Bud Booth and John Curruthers will
leave Sunday for the Gulf to spend
two or three weeks in enjoyment.
Del Valle's school has started with a
decrease in pupils and teachers. John
Robinson is the teacher of 80 bright
heads.
Mr.. A. J. Terrell has traded for a
fine span of small bay ponies.
Mr.. Van Lane came out last evening
to visit his old home, he being tired of
school and city life and wishes to take
a turn and a Whit of the country's
pure air.
Day before yesterday in the east we
witnessed a brilliant new moon grad
ually climbing the picturesque hills
that border the valley in that direc.
ton winking one eye slowly while its
smile shed soft and mellow light over
hill top and valley.
Last week County Commissioner
Newning was out and said that he
would send the road hands down to
smooth up the road. l presume he
has forgotten all about it, for hands
never came He should fix the road
before it rains If it should rain while
the road was in such a state as it is,
the wagons would cut it up terribly,
so bad that it would require more time
then, than now to fix it.
Mr.. Ed Anderson was down yester.
day hunting an "old campaign UNI
brella" that he left here when he was
making one of those nice talks he al.
ways makes.
A slight norther has been on us for
three days and nights, making work
very desirable and pleasant.
A great deal of cotton has been rim
into market for sale this week and
The Boss" retains his old time smile
that draws his ears together ontop of
! B. F. eagle is visiting his mother in
Temple, Ga.
On the 18th day of this month Mr..
x, ems celebrated his 43rd birthday
FN ashing his toe.
~ ~ cotton pickers are all out OF
me Nv that about all the cotton is
work NJ 1T. WV '0''oH ''
'ic cE q Oatman of Temple is visit.
Mls. VI. her, Mrs. w. J. Sneed.
n a nef n1 w Best has put gravel one
oo . a deem all 'ver his lot, making it
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-10-19

Texas, the crop of last year was GER
tainly the worst ever known and far
below the crops Cor which the years
that have been looked bark to are
synonyms of disaster Therefore l
look for an increase in production per
acre in those states averaging ~ per
cent
In reference to details by st,etes, Mr..
Neil says: "While there may I've some
dispute as to the Individual sta ties, ]
am we'll satisfied that for the I, otals
the figure of 100000 may be takel a.
the minimum, with possibly consid. VI.
ably more if the present splendi>
weather continues. The frosts re-
ported yesterday and today are re-
ported as having done little injury,
owing to the dryness of the weather
and the crop being mainly matured."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-10-19
NEIL'S COTTON ESTIMATE
he FIGURES THE CROP UNDER EIGHT
MILLION BALES.
Gives Texas One Million Nine Hundred
Thousand Against Her Two Million
Bale Crop Last Year, With Seven
Per Cent Increased Acreage.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 1.-THE long
looked for cotton estimate of Henry
NJ. Neil was given to the press this
afternoon. 1t predicts minimum for
the crop of 1864 of 100000 bales.
In explanation of his figures Neil says:
The past crop was such total failure
(outside of Texas that it seemed very
unlikely that planters would find it in
their power to much increase the
acreage, while there was a coucesus of
opinion that the acreage planted this
year exceeds that of last year on an
average by about per cent in the
Atlantic states and Texas, and per
cent in the gulf states, or an average
increase of 6 per cent for the whole
country. As the actual growth of last
year Inclusive of old cotton was G, $50, :
600, adding per cent for acreage would
give us crop of 6,S50,OOO, even were
production per acre no better than
last year.
While the crop did not make an
early or very promising start, yet a
favorable July and August gave very
heavy fruitage, which from hot and
forcing weather with intervals of rain,
has come rapidly to maturity.
The plant was not large but so we'll
fruited that there is already more
cotton matured and open than last
years whole crop amounted to.
There has been some development of
top crops since September, returns
from which may give a small addition
if the frost be delayed. From this
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-10-19

however outside of Texas not much
need be expected, as except in Texas
it is quite unusual for September
blooms to mature.
For above reasons l am able at this
early date to formulate an estimate,
with the proviso, however, that while
little need be feared from frost, most
of the crop being matured and fair
crop already certain, there is in Texas
(as we'll as elsewhere) a new develop
ment since the rains of the 25th and
26th of September, which promises if
frost be delayed even to the 10Th of
November, to add materially to her
crop. In consequence of this rain l
now estimate that state at 1000, 900
bales, against growth of 1000, 900 last
year, although her acreage is per
cent greater, indicating reduced pro.
duct per acre of 10 per cent. But if
the weather continues favorable and
frost be delayed another month her
crops may be much more.
No one familiar with the calamity
which struck the crop outside of Texas
last year, especially in the gulf states,
can imagine that there is any similar.
ity whatever between the two crops =.
There is none. In spots no doubt
worms, drouth or rust, or all three,
have done a good deal of harm. No
crop ever escaped entirely. and look
ing back no further than 1891 .92, (the
100000 crop the disasters so called
of August and September of that year
were reported very much as this. The
fact is, just as after the two enormous
crops of 1S90-9l and 1922, each
nearly 5000 600, it seemed impossible
to fall down to 6 1.2 last year; so now
after 6, it is equally difficult to realize
the possibility of a large crop.
make no pretense that this crop is
anything like those great crops Ell her
in acreage or production. for that
would mean about S,500,090 bales on
the present acreage. But l do say
that, excepting in Texas, where condi-
lions have not until September been
favorable, the crop is vastly better
than the calamituous results of last
year. In the Atlantic states the i'm.
proved production is due to better
weather and largely increased use of
fertilizers, which l estimBte at 20 per
cent. In the Gulf states, including
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-10-19
AT THE DAM.
The Headgate Masonry Will Now Be Pushed
to Completion,


Yesterday was the day previously
named as the day on which Contractor
Hart would begin the work of laying
the headgate masodry at the dam,
the contract for which requires that
the work be completed by the 18th
day Of January next. The IL O'Clock
Dummy train yesterday morning car
rled a STATESMAN reporter to the
dam, who found Mr.. Hart on the
ground. He had a force of men on
hand ana also his tools, and was pre-.
parlng to go to work in the pit.
engineer Lows men were still at
work on their excavation, their efforts
being confined to the easternmost end
OF the big hole which is rapidly being
carried downward, While that work
has been going on another gang has
been pushing westward the tunnel
beneath the penstocks left standing,
and yesterday morning at an early
hour the east end of the dam was
struck.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-10-19

slight rustic beside the wagon of
cotton they were sleeping on. At the
same time hand descended upon his
forehead and another containing q
long knife was making its way for his
throat. Being scared and doing, on
the impulse Of the moment he jerked
his arm from under his head, striking
the assassin's arm, knocking it down
to his breast, where it cut its way for
| about or inches. A struggle ensued,
the M exican trying to pull him out of
the wagon, he trying to gain his pistol.
At last he succeeded in pulling away
from the man. When they parted
the Mexican fell straight down by the
wagon and Jake fell to the
y Their side, grabbed his pistol
~ i fired two shots over
A. an wagon bed, then he jumped from
t ehe wagon, and at the same time
T Tne jumped from the opposite side,
, nT seeing the man again. Jake
nelCneA that the man was in hiding
suP sup So him get into the wagon, he
ano sd" sufficient time for them to
maiCiIs ~ when he crept up to the
g I asieeP1 intention was to grab
wagon. HIS 4ad and hold it down
JAKE oy Cne d ,at, but Jake was toe
ana cut ais thrs lie never saw the mar
quick for him. ere scuffling. The
only while they as a man of medi,
would-be assassin u mustache The
um height with fun cen as a razor
knife he used was as h, lakes clothe.
Where the knife cut ors il is chi
resembles the cut of sciss, as at last
so smooth. Mr. Smith L taken mr.
listened to reason and has cd bow,
lodging elsewhere like a go fer ha,
Nothing OF "a suspicious charae. light
happened since last Wednesday L ;th',
which marked period in Mr.. Snl 'ue
life that he will remember to his dyl.
day.
Opposite Del Vale in Hornsbyds
Bend n gin burned down yesterday,
burning 100 bales of cotton, SO of them
belonging to the owner of the gin. The
river for a mile below is filled with
cotton bales where they rolled them in
to put out the fire. When the cotton
is ginned people should either take
helrscotton to the nearest market and
dispose of it or store it in their yard,
The gin yard is no place for it.
Messrs. L. p Givens, j. Strickling,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-10-19
Ice Factory Rurned

Special to the Statesman
CLEBURNE, Tex, Oct. 17.-Cleburne
ice factory, the property of the Gle
burne Ice and Cold Storage company.
burned to ashes today. The plant was
vslued at $12,500 and was insured for
$780,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-10-19

IF YOUR B. on ACHES.
" you are all worn out, really good for nofh>
ing, 1t il general debility. Try
BROWNS TROH RITTNRS,
u cure you, cleanse your liver. aud efyz
:. poOf annette ~"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-10-19
the best horse lot in the valley. He is
also the first to commence cultiyatino
for the next crop.
NOBLE JERRY.

LADIES
.eeding tonic, or children who want buiis,
ing up, should take
BROWNS IRON BIITERS.
,,it is pleasant; cures Malaria, Indigestion
'''"'lsneSs, Liver Complaints and Neuralgia
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-03-04
Sound e.

The difference between common
sense and mathematics W as illustrated
in a remark which Tommy Jones-who
is not exceptionally brig hit, but Just a
common, natural boy-m ade in his
class at school the other day.
1t was the class in mental arithmetic
The teacher asked Willy Smith:
Which would you rather have, Will
ly, half an apple, or eight-sixteenths of
an apple?'
Wouldn't make any difference"
said Willy.
why not?'
'Eight-sixteenths and one-half are
all the same"
At this reply Tommy Jones, who was
several steps farther down the class.
shifted scornfully. The teacher heard
him.
well, Tommy said she, don't Won
agree with Willy?'
Nom" said Tommy. I'D a good
deal rather have one-half an apple"
And why, please?"
More juice. Cut up half an apple
into eight-sixteenths, and you'd lose
half the juice doing itr'-Youth's Com
panion.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-03-04
GIMP EFFIE."

imp Effle!" Language can't express
The life that sparkles In her eyes,
AND what II l must needs confess
That Efie is not very wise?
Her nonsense talked with blithesome air
Sweeter to me than wisdom seems;
1love to see her toss her hair,
l love to hear her tell her dreams.
Near her philosophers seem fools,
Their logic and inductions chaf;
Forms. maxims, axioms, reasons, rules,
Evaporate in Efie's laugh.
How coldly rigid and aloft
The fnger-posts Of science shine,
When EfHe's digits, warm and soft.
Are playing at hot hands" with minei
She's very ignorant, the pet,
OF creed or dogma old or new;
She's very crcdulous. and yet
Her articles Of faith are few.
To reverend men she's barely civil,
Though prompt to succor the forlorn;
She's duly fearful Of the devil,
But sees no harm in being born.
Not clear about the second BIRTH"
She trusts her sins will be forgiven;
And that when called to quit the earth,
She'll go up, naturally, to Heaven.
Meanwhile, too fond, l fear, the rogue il
OF this worlds ~vanities and pomps;
Thinks serious people .'awfu fogies;"
Nay. meath their solemn noses romps.
Leaps, tumbles, screams, to make them
culver;
Shams stupid to excite their spleen:
Then how she tittersl Lord for give her,
The little imp is scarce thirteen.
And even while l sermonize her,
l sometimes can't repress q sigh
To think that Efle will grow wiser,
That Efie will grow old, and die!
Spectator.
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The doctor found that hers was no
organic trouble, but rather a general
exhaustion Of natures powers, arising
from worry and insufficient food. He
gave her quieting potion, and she fell
into a gentle slumber. He then asked
Miss Alice to give him an account of
how the trouble with his brother had
happened.
In answer she related that her sister
had met Henry Banks at a reception.
He was young and handsome. and won
her heart. Her father gave his consent
to the marriage, and the day was set.
Then followed Mr.. Carnold's death and
the fall from wealth to poverty. He
left nothing but his debts. But the
climax of their trouble came when
Henry Banks disappeared, leaving a
letter for his fancee stating that he
had decided to start anew elsewhere
and she would never see him again.
The w women had worked their way
to New York, hoping to meet friends
OF their father who once lived there,
but only to find them dead. They had
then rented their present apartments,
and eked out a scanty living by taking
in sewing. Under the severe strain
Mary's health gave way, and she was
Frustrated. The younger sister, on her
way for a physician, had been attracted
by DR.. Banks sign and had sought his
aid. When she had finished her recital.
h doctor was silent for a time.
"Miss Carnold." he said at last,
these surroundings are not c~ongenial
to YOU Now l have a proposition to
make which I beg you will accept in
the same spirit that it is offered. The
second floor OF my house is vacant, and
l want you to occupy it. When your
sister is we'll enough to emove we will
Jake her there, and you shall be more
comfortable"
Alice's only answer was to burst into
tears. The tender-hearted doctor sat
down beside her and took her hand.
Wont you consider me your friend,
Miss Carnold, he said, earnestly, land
accept this offer?"
She raised her lovely tear-stained
ace and their eyes met.
"Dr. Banks" she exclaimed, ''your
kindness quite overpowers me. Per-
haps l ought to doubt you and spurn
your proposal, but / am going to ac-
cept, for it seems to me that Providence
has sent you to u.s."
Il trust that l shall prove a true
emissary of Providence" he answered
Two weeks passed. The invalid,
thanks to her improved circumstances
and the doctors care, was SO much i'm
proved as to be able to sit up. The
doctor spent his evenings with the
ladies when not professionally en-
gagged, and charming companions he
found them. One evening while they
were engaged in an animated CONVEX
sation the doctors bell rang, and, ex-
cusing himself, he went below. As he
opened the door atall, fne-looking man
stepped into the hall. He stood there
a moment and then said, in a low voice:
James,"
Harry" exclaimed the other. spring
ing forward and dragging him into the |
light 1T is you, my dear boy! Where
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-03-04

have you been these three years? Come
in and get warmed up
When they were seated before the
cheerful CRATE fire James said:
Hal. tell me; why did you desert
your iancee in her hour of need?'
Good heavens, man! who told you
that? | did not desert her. My story
is a strange one. and but for the most
substantial proofs / could never CON
vince you of its veracity. But how did
you hear of this?'
From your fancee. The Misses
Carnold are living upstairs in the ut
most poverty"
set me go to her!" he cried. DO not
detain me!!'
No; you must wait" said his
brother, quietly. st would kill her to
see you suddenly in her weak state. /
will prepare her for the meeting, But
first tell me about your disappearance.
You wrote to Miss Carnold, saying that
you had decided to start anew, and that
she would never see you again. That
oOuhuo Inc ucScTllOu, uOeSn I IL.
Hal uttered an exclamation of sur
prise. 1T was a forgery" he cried,
Indignantly. Il never wrote such a
letter. As | intimated to you, mine is
a strange story, and this l suppose is
but another chapter.
"Mr. Carnold, Mary's father, the day
before he died %intrusted to my care d
mortgage which he held on a gold mine
claim in southern California, and which
he had intended to foreclose in three
weeks. He wished me to take possess
sion of the claim and run it for his
daughters benefit, as this would be
their sole support consented, and as
soon as1 left him placed the precious
document in a safe deposit vault.
"Mr. Carnold died the next day, and
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-03-04

Manhattan Island, the site of the
city of New York, was so named by
the Dutch after u tribe of Indians
which they first found there, who
We're called Manna-hatans. When
Peter Minuits came to New Neither
lands as governor, in 1926. he pur-
chased the island of the natives for the
Dutch West India company for the
value Of GO guilders (about S24), and
paid for it in cheap trinkets, hatchets
and knives.
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Can you tell me, my friend" said
the elderly gentleman to the keeper of
the camel, what the hump on the
camers back is for?" whats It foron
Yes: of what value is it?" well.
it's lots of value. The camel wouldn't
be no good without it." 'Why not?"
why not? Yer don't suppose people
would pay a quarter to see a camel
without any hump on him, do yer%!"-
Boston Globe.
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snooze, when his night-bell rang furi.
ously. The good doctor sprang up and
put his head out of the window.
What is wanted?" he called
us that DR.. Banks??'
The voice was q clear ire bic, and ne
could distinguish a female form in the
street below.
Yes" he answered; what do yor
want?'
"Oh. DOCTOR" said the voice, tremu-
lousy; please come with me at once.
My sister is dying, l fear"
III be right down." called the doc
tor, and, hurriedly dressing himself, he
descended and opened the door.
Come in" he said; II will be with
you immediately"
AS his visitor stepped into the full
blaze of the hall light, the doctor saw
that she was very beautiful. Her
were clear-cut and classic. Her voice
was low and we'll modulated, and, in
spite Of her apparent poverty, she had
the air of a woman of refinement.
The doctor was soon ready, and to-
gether they left the house. She led
him by many turns, through narrow
streets, until she opened a door into a
long. dark passage between two
dwellings and passed in. The doctor
followed her without hesitation. From
the passage they emerged into a court
on three sides of which faced a series
of dismal and dirty tenements. Into
one of these his conductress led him
and up some rickety stairs. On the
fourth landing she opened a door and
entered an apartment. In a moment
they stood beside a pallet on which
lay a oma The invalid stirred, and
turning her wan face to them asked
feebly:
Have you brought the doctor,
Alice?"
"Yes, dearest" and turning to him:
"Dr. Banks, this is my sister, Miss
Curnold."
The change his name made on the
sick woman was electric. From utter
listlessness she was aroused to the in
tensest excitement. deep flush over
spread her face, and her eyes sparkled
like Goals as she raised herself upon her
elbow and gazed into his face.
sit is not he" she muttered; yet
yes-there is a lil1eness!"
She paused, and abruptly addressing
the doctor said: Had you even a broth
err, DR.. Banks?"
Her voice was clear and resonant, in
marked contrast to her previous NUT
terings. The doctor answered SLOWLY
and deliberately:
Yes, madam"
And his name was Henry?"
yes"
"Where is he now?"
A dark shade passed over his face.
u do not know he said; 81 have
not heard from him for three years.
The last word l had was a letter he
wrote me from California, telling of his
engagement to a San Francisco girl-a
paragon of beauty and goodness"
That paragon is before you or,
rather, the wreck your faithless broth
er has left of her."
The doctor caught his breath. 'Miss
Carnold," he said, this is a terrible
surprise to me! But, come now, your
sister shall tell me all. Meanwhile,
you must not excite yourself, but must
obey my directions strictly, if you wish
to get we'll"
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IN the confusion and sorrow l forgot to
mention the mortgage to the girls.
That evening, sitting in my room, |
fell asleep. l woke to find myself Sc
curely bound and gagged. To make a
long story short, l vas carried to a
cab, conveyed a long way from the city
to a lonely spot, and there kept prison
er, being guarded day and night by
two of my four armed attendants.
After two years of this sort of life, l
succeeded in making my escape while
my guards were in a drunken stupor
after a day of debauch. reached San
Francisco in safety, foreclosed the
mortgage, and caused the arrest of all
concerned in my detention. Their
cases come up in the November term.
The mine was now the property of the
girls, but no trace of them could find:
they had disappeared. / then came on
n sought you. Like a fairy-story,
isn't it?''
ut certainly is, my dear Hail." an
swered James, when his brother had
finished the recital of his adventures.
Il will run up now and break the good
news to Mary and Alice"
"a tiresome patient" he said, as he
entered the room. But l have learned
through him that my brother Henry is
we'll, and, what will be good to
you, that he has been totally blameless
in the matter of his supposed deser-
ton"
He then related his brothers story.
being careful to conceal the fact that
h mortgage interested them.
And SO your brother is a rich miner
now" said Mary. II hope, Dr.. Banks,
you will do all in your power to keep
us apart"
II will do nothing of the sort, Miss
Carnold He is anxious to see YOU. I
understand"
but do you not see that we are
miserably poor and he is a wealthy
man?" she said, sadly.
Suppose 1 tell you," he answered.
that you are both rich? Suppose 7
tell you that the mortgage was left by
your father in my brothers. care for
your maintenance, and that the gold
mine is yours?"
The w m sprang up with ex-
Carnations of surprise; but the imper-
turbable doctor said to Mary, as he
gently forced her back into her seat:
Come, now, Miss Carnold, | see
hat | must exercise M authority.
You must not excite yourself; you are
still very weak. Besides-well. there's
another patient" he added. interrnnt-
ing himself, as the bell rang vigorously.
AS he left the room he said. myste-
riously:
"lf the patient proves to be a friend
of yours, I will bring him up"
In a short time there we're footsteps
Oh the stairs-a knock-a ryan the
long-separated lovers were clasped in
each others arms.
What a joyous %reunion!' said DIR. |
Banks, as he and Alice Carnold sat
apart watching the happy pair. But
do you realize that it means a separa-
ton to us, unless-unless you wish to
avoid it?"
The beautiful head dropped to hide
her bushes, but she did not answer.
Alice, darling" he continued. pas
.sionately, when first / saw those
lovely, i%mploring eyes of yours. I loved
you. Now, you are a rich woman, and
| only a poor Doctor"
"Hush! DEAR" she said, ~interruptino
him; Il am rich, indeed, with such a
love as yours. Take me, unworthy
as am; for you are my life"