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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28
DOGS GET BORED.
How Mans Example Has DemoralIzed the
Faithful Animal.

how Example I1hS DoInOTbllLou Juo
Faithful Animal.
Some domestic animals can be very
much bored indeed, says the London
Times. This capacity seems to vary
from the intelligence of the victim and
with the closeness of his relations to
mankind. We may well blush, for in
stance, when we think how man has
demoralized the dog. We have taught
the dog to be bored. We have cor
rupted him so much by our society that
he can no longer depend upon himself,
or even on other dogs for entertain
ment. A COW, it may be boldly said,
never thinks of being bored. Give her
plenty of grass and the company Of
another COW by way of gossip, give her
stream to stand in, and that COW is
happy, as happy as the Buddha him
self. No murmur escapes her lips, no
glance of discomfort shows in her
placid eyes.
The dog, on the other hand, is always
craving for society. A dog has been
know to leave it's masters house and
betake itself to that of richer neigh
Dor, who saw more company and enter
tanned the great. To please a dog
something must always be going on.
To him the whirl of gayety means life.
He is VIGOROUSLY incapable of even
taking walk by himself. He detests
solitude. He very seldom even takes a
walk with another dog; never, per-
haps, except where there is a neighbor-
ing wood with rabbits in it. The dog
lives for society and sport, the sure
proof of an idle and ill-occupied mind.
Nature, landscape, In spite of the
Duke of Argyll, is nothing to the dog.
Within doors he is always asking to be
let into room and then asking to be
let out of 1t If he thinks there Is better
that is, more dissipated and frivolous
company elsewhere. The dog who Is
accidentally shut out of his masters
house at night bowls till he is let In
again, usually next morning with the
milk. He keeps all the parish awake,
but never manages to waken his owner.
The cause of all this disturbance Is
simply ennui and sense of social neg
lect. The dog could be quite comfort
able in the garden, but he feels that he
is "out of it," and gives as much trouble
as person who is asking to be asked
to party.
In state of nature it is most inn
probable that the dog had these often
sive instincts. A fox, wolf is never
bored when not in confinement; he
hunts, he sleeps, he plays with his
cubs. Probably savages are never
bored; at corroboree you do not note
men leaning against doors, or, rather,
tree trunks, with an air of unspeakable
tedium. They waltz in and enjoy
themselves. 1t is clearly civilization
which produces ennui, not only in men,
women and children, but even in dogs.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28
GREATEST MENACE ToFoREsTs.

Making of Paper from Wood Causes
Wholesale Destruction of Trees.
The extensive use of wood in MAX
ing the cheapest grades of paper offers
one of the serious obstacles to forest
preservation, says the Philadelphia
Telegraph. In the last two or three
years the growth of the wood-pulp in
dustry has been enormous, a dozen
great mills, each manufacturing from
fifty to three hundred tons of pulp a
day, have been built on the Hudson
river, to feed principally on the
Adirondack forests. The wood chiefly
used is spruce, and the especially dis
astrous effect, of the industry on the
forests results not only from the ex-
IRENE demand for the lumber, but
from the fact that while the demand
is especially for trees of thirty to
thirty-fve years growth, the young
trees are also cut. In 1881 the capacity
of the pulp mills of the United States
was about seventy-two thousand tons
per annum. The present capacity Is
seven hundred thousand tons.
And in this remarkable growth the
industry has been accompanied by
these three desirable things: Increase
in quantity, decrease in price, and no
diminution in the compensation OF
labor. The sound of the ak, the bark
er and the grinder is heard in twenty
two states. The neighborhood OF Nj
agara and theaAdirondacks in New
York, the territories of the Kennebec,
Androscoggin and Penobscot rivers in
Maine, the Fox river valley OF Wiscon.
sin. the hills of New Hampshire and
Vermont and the natural gas belt OF
indiana are the greatest pulp-produc-
ing regions of the United States:
About thirty-fve hundred cords OF
wood are required daily to supply the
demand of the mills.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28

In China and Japan watermelons are
served as sort of frozen ice and form
an exceedingly dainty dish. Take a
large, sweet, ripe melon, cut it in half,
and with spoon scoop out the entire
center. of course removing the seeds.
Put the watermelon into chopping
tray and chop it rather fine. Add one
cup of powdered sugar, and if you use
wine a tablespoonful of sherry, Turn
this into an ice cream freezer. Pack
the freezer, turn the crank for about
five minutes until the watermelon is
lev cold and in the condition of soft
snow. Serve in glasses.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28
BURIED ENocH ARDEN ALIVE.
An Egyptian Judge Who Believed Wit
nesses Rather Than HIS Own Senses.

An Egyptian Judge Who Believed Wit
nesses Rather Than His Own Senses.
a swiss captain, at the end of a SAN
culinary and prolonged battle, caused
the dead and dying to be thrown alike
into pits and buried together. Some
one pointed out to him that many of
the bodies still showed signs of ANNA
ton. MY good SIR" replied the
Swiss, "if a man were to pay attention
to the signs they show there would not
be dead body among them" A SINH
lar power of preventing the mind being
turned aside by trifling considerations
appears to have characterized certain
kazi in the city of Cairo, Mansur Bin
Musia by name. His decisions, accord
ing to the London Standard, were usu-
ally rather extraordinary, but every
now and then they were so remarka-
BILE as to attract attention from disin-
terested outsiders On one occasion
the inhabitants of Cairo were shocked
to see living man borne through the
streets, tied fast to a bier, and hurried
toward the cemetery to be buried alive.
His lamentable shrieks were entirely
disregarded by the bearers, who re-
morselessly carried out their duty to
its bitter end. 1t was soon ascertained
that the Kazi Mansur was response
BILE for this atrocity, and, although
Orientals are not easily shocked where
the administration of justice, so-called,
is concerned, yet in this case it was
felt that some inquiries should be
made. Accordingly, the kazi was in
terviewed and he was asked why 1t
was that he had caused living man
to be buried alive. Like Mr.. Gilbert's
young lady in "The Mikado," it was
doubtless pointed out to him that bur-
ial alive is too "stuffy" death to be
agreeable. They found the kazi quite
ready to satisfy their doubt. "You
wish,"' he said, "to know why this
young man has been buried alive.
Well, his burial has been ordered by
me in due form because six months ago
his wife was married to another man
according to the decree of the law,
two witnesses Of very respectable
character having certified to his
death at Bagdad. The man, however,
came before the court one morning,
pleaded that he was not dead, and ad-
vanced claim to recover his wife. l
ordered the two witnesses to reappear,
and they proved beyond doubt by
fresh evidence that they had attended
his funeral at Bagdad, where he was
buried in their presence. From this
circumstance it is easy to conclude
that the man cannot be real one, but
the ghost of a former, and must there.
fore be laid in order to put an end to
all future disputes respecting the
woman" The bystanders thereupon,
as we are told, "dissembled their mis-.
givings, praised the kazi's justice and
retired"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28

Every Chinese temple is provided
with one or more sacred drums, the
sound of which is supposed to soothe
and keep quiet the great dragon that
upholds the earth. Whenever there is
a moment in which all of these drums
are silent the dragon begins to move
uneasily and there is an earthquake.
The first tremor is, therefore, instantly
followed by universal drumming
such as Is never heard in China on any
other occasion, and the pandemonium
continues until the dragon becomes
quiet.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28
Forged Railway Tickets.

ST.. LOUIS Sept. 2s.-The discovery
has been made by the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern railroad that
thousands of dollars worth of forged
tickets of that system are In circula-
ton. They are skeleton one way gem
eral ticket office form, printed on green
paper. The discovery was made
through a claim presented by the
Pennsylvania system for their proper
ton of IL tickets of which the Iron
Mountain had no record. The issue
has been withdrawn and new one on
pink paper substituted. Detectives
are after the forgers who. it is learned,
have been working from Chicago.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28

Extraordinary stories are told of the
healing properties of new oil which
is easily made from the yolk of hens
eggs. The eggs are first boiled hard,
and the yollks are then removed,
crushed and placed over fire, where
they are carefully stirred until the sub
stance is on the point of catching fire,
when the oil separates and the oil may
be poured off. One yolk will yield
nearly two tesspoonfuls of oil 1t is
In general use among the colonists OF
south Russia as means of curing
cuts, bruises, etc.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28
Some women's Pet Aversions.

An English magazine the other day
asked women to tell what they con-
slider their pet aversion. Here are
some of the answers received: 1.-The
endless discussion of the Irish ques'
tion" "a formal lunch party" my
net aversion has no name or being, yet
I see her plainly with my spirits eye
Thera she sits, always neat and un'
ruf1ed, ever wearing that serene smile =
whicb makes me long to shake her, If
oniv to see how she would look then
GI1yaTs conscientious, always kind
her worst fault is that she has no
fault" "My pet aversion IS sne oI muIT Il
tidying woman" Cows, OF co. coas stesd "
only / knew what that long anu s'e~uy
stare meansl But DON'T ana "y0-
terry commands ave-"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28
suicide at Paris.
Special to The Statesman.

bpeClhl W Inc pLhDebmhu.
PARIS, Tex, Sept. 22.-Today Chas.
Schieper, proprietor OF a confectionery
and bakery, cut himself to pieces and
will probably die before morning. His
throat, face and body are badly gashed.
He has been drinking heavily and
imagined that a mob was after him to
burn him and tried to kill himself to
escape.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28
Failure at Galveston.
Special to the Statesman.

GALVESTON, Sept. 22.-M. Mano-
vich, grocer and clearinghouse pro-
prietor, corner of Fourteenth street
and avenue A, assigned today to j. M.
Mayor. The following creditors are
preferred in full: George Schneider
" Co., $983.63; Andrew Follett, $500;
Pabst Brewing company, $500; Davis,
Rosenberger & Levy, $4,000. The
Galveston Fruit company $55.76, and
The total preferences are $,617 81; liza
bilities not stated.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28
Valkyria In Port.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-The Valky-
rie is in port. She cast anchor OPP
posite the Atlantic Yacht Club house,
off Bay Ridge at $50 this morning.
The Valkyrie took the northern pas
sage, and on the whole, experienced
very stormy weather.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28
ARGENTINE.
RApIcALs IMPRISONED.

BUENos AYREs, Sept. ga total
Of 80 prominent radicals thus far have
been arrested and put aboard the gov
eminent warships. The authorities
are anxious to get hold OF Alem, the
most prominent radical leader, but are
not able to locate him.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-09-19
DOWN THE HILL.
a SHOntfOru Avenue Car Takes a
spin YeSterdav.

Yesterday morning as the closed car
on he extension OF the Montford avenue
line was descending the grade toward
the bridge the dew on the track caused
it to get beyond the control of the mo-
torman and it took a lively race around
the curves and down the hill.
The motorman put on the brakes as
tightly as pOssib BILE, in fact. so tight that
the wheels were locked, and even re-
versed the current, but it was all of no
avail. The motorman and conductor,
seeing that nothing more could be done
to stop the runaway, Jumped, and were
tollowed by several Bingham school
students. Only one person, Will Bolton,
plucky boy, kept his seat in the car.
The runaway made all of the curves
safely and on coming to the level juss
this side the terminus came to a stop
with wheels locked. No damage wat
done.
THE CITIZEN rode over the Montford
line this morning with Manager Baird,
and unhesitatingly pronounces a trip
over this line one of the distinct attrac-
tions of Asheville. The line runs within
100 feet or SO of Pearson's bridge.
The view of the French Broad river as
the car emerges on the river front is
beautiful. A force of hands Is busily at
work surfacing the track and putting
everything in shape, so that within Il
week the cars will ride over the exten-
sion as smoothly as they have always
done on the old portion of the road. The
line is now about three miles in length.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-09-19
Federal ELECTI LAW
The Bill Repeating 1t NAV BE
Ready Nov l.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 19.-Mr. Oates of
Alabama has been instructed by the com
mittee on the judiciary to report a bill to
repeal the Federal Election law. When
the call OF committees comes the judiciary
committee will be called earlier than the
committee on the election of President
and Vice-President. The bill from that
committee will consequently be reported
before the Tucker bill. 1t lies with
the Committee on Rules to fix a special
order for the consideration of either bill
Judge Oates's bill is little more con-
servative than the Tucker bill. 1t leaves
ir the statutes the clauses empo wcring
governors OF States to call upon the
Federal government for aid in the event
OF violence and disorder. United States
supervisors and deputy marshals at he
polls are, however, done away with.
Mr.. Tucker thinks bill for the repeal
ing of the Federal election laws ouh ht to
be ready for passage In the House by
November 1. By that time, he THINKS,
the Ways and Means committee will be
ready to bring in tariff bill, and the
Senate can, in The meantime, take up the
Eelection law repeal bill. He anticipates
that the tactics of Republicans in the
Senate against this bill will be precisely
similar to that employed by the Demo
Gratis against the Force bill.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-09-19
A DOUBLE ROBBERY.
Train Robbers Arrested For The
Mineral Range Haul.


MARQUETTE, Mich, Sept. 19.-Last
night practically all the men who had
anything to do with the robbery of the
Mineral Range express last Friday of
$4,000 were in Jail or under espionage
and up to date $4,000 OF their booty
has been recovered. Today George
Liberte, former fireman on the Duluth,
South Shore and Atlantic road, was ar
rested here by the police on the telc-
graphic order of the sheriff of Houghton
county and made clean breast OF the
whole affair.
The other men under arrest are Can
non. OF Hancock, young man of good
family, whose trunk was used to carry
away the money, and who denies any
connection with the robbery John
King, IN athlete; Chcllew, a saloon
keeper of Neganue; Michael and John
Shea, saloonists here; Tom Winters. a
baggage man; B. w. Hogan, the messen-
ger on the robbed car; Ed Hogan,
aloonist; w. Shoupe, hack driver. and
one Butler, an inhabitue of Chellew's
place.
Liberte in his confession gave dc
tailed account of where the trunk was
left along the line of the Mineral Range
road. Officers there found the trunk, ,
and on its arrival at the Houghton Ma
tional bank it was opened and found
empty. On Liberties information $14,-
900 was recovered by the officers, it is
claimed, at Shea Bros saloon.
The empty condition of the trunk is
accounted for by the suggestion that the
money was stolen a second time, he last
from the robbers themselves, and Mess
enger Hogan's brother is being looked
tor i'll connection with this latest cpl
Sode.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-09-19
NEWS IN OUR OWN STATE.

Durham Sun: Miss Olympia Brod-
gom was engaged to young man in the
city, and few days before her death
took up an idea that every one who
went to see her wanted to take the en-
gagement ring from her. So few hours
before death she pulled the ring from her
finger and put it in her mouth. The
ladies who were watching by her bed
side tried to get the ring from her mouth
but she clinched her teeth together so
tight they could not get it, Finally she
exclaimed: Il guess you will never get
1t now, for have SWALLOWED it."
The Christian college at Avden. Gull
ford county, was formally opened Satur-
day with Professor L. T. Rightsell, late
of Indiana, In charge as principal. 1t is
established under the auspices of the
Christian Tor Disciple) denomination
Early this year they began discus sing
the advisability of establishing a denom-
national school. In April they held a
meeting at Ayden and decided to locate
the school there. it being more central
in the territory where the denomina Il ton
is largest than any other place under
consideration.
AT Goldston, Chatham county, A l.
Collision, a merchant, took his gun and
went to the house of q negro to shoot a
dog that had been killing his sheep.
Becoming involved in a quarrel with the
negro, he struck the latter over the head
with the butt of the gun. the gun was
discharged. and the who'll charge en-
tered Collisions body, killing him in
stantly.
The State Commissioner of AgricuI-
turc says that the damage to cotton by
the storms and rains is now % per cent
He declares this to be a conservative es-
innate. He says a great number OF
small bolls are killed. and that what is
known as the top crop will be light.
There appears to be a belief that cot
ton will go to nine cents in little w lille.
1t is now certain that the crop is short.
The effect of the late disastrous floods
is shown by the statement that only five
bridges are left in Durham county.
Twelve million cigarettes are ordered
of one factory at Durham, by it's repre-
sentative in japan.
The Wilmington cotton mills, after a
suspension of four weeks, will resume
work soon.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-09-19
THE SCHOOL. BOOKS
why the BusHness Is Done by i.
n Morgan 81 Co.

The scene in the bookstore of ]. N.
Morgan q Co. was an animated
one yesterday afternoon, when the
pupils from the city schools went there
to purchase books for the present ses-
sion. There was a perfect jam inside
the store and intending purchasers stood
outside waiting their turn. The clerk
force in the store was not equal to the
occasion, and numbers were kept walt
ing quite while. In one instance a lady
and her children spent three hours before
their orders could be filed. Nearly all of
the books used by the school children
have arrived. now that freight traffic has
been resumed on the r. 6, D.
THE CITIZEN has been asked how 1t Is
that Morgan & Co. have the exclusive
sale CT the books used in the city schools.
School Committeeman Jos. E. Dickerson
when asked about the matter today said
that last year the school books had been
purchased by the committee and then
sold to the pupils, by this means saving
a considerable amount in the aggregate
to the buyers. But this plan resulted in
the committees getting in debt on its
book account and it was decided that
the plan would not be followed this YEAR
About 5000 worth of books were left on
the committees hands, and 1t proposed
to the two dealers, Messrs. Morgan &
Co. and II. T. Estabrook, that they take
the last years books off the committees
hands and then divide the business
equally between them this year. Mr.
Esta brook did not consent to this, and
Mr.. Morgan agreeing to take all Of the
old books the business was given to him.
The cost of the books this year is about
10 per cent. greater than last year, when
they were sold by the committee.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-09-19
TO THE HOSPITAL.
The 8tOneCutiers Present the
PrOCeeds of Labor Day 6pOrta.


Last Sunday afternoon committee
of the Biltmore Stonecutters' associa.
ton, under the leadership of their pres
ident, Donald Call, met the managers of
the Mission hospital at the hospital and
asked their acceptance of $500, being
the proceeds of the amusements on La
Dor day, saving that the gift was ten
dered with no conditions attached.
Several of the ladies present expressed
their gratitude, especially being pleased
that their management of the institu-
ton had proved SO satisfactory to their
friends and supporters. They also as
sured the donors that their gift could
not have been made at time more ac-
ceptable, they desired to complete one
of the unfinished wards, and have 1t SUBJ
divided into private rooms, where pa
tients can be treated separately at a
nominal expense. That, although no
citation, it would be gratifying to it's
members to know that their bounty
would enable the managers to carry out
speedily this desirable Improvement.
- The committee then presented to ]. A.
Conant beautiful Masonic emblem,
as a token of their appreciation of his
services in bringing the Labor day pro-
gram to so successful a completion.
This handsome gift was the work of the
and was accepted by Mr.. Conant in a
manner appropriate to the happy occas-
ion.
Under the guidance of DR.. c. E. Hill
lard, of the medical staff the committee
then went through the hospital, and ex-
pressed themselves much pleased with it's
appointments.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-09-19
TO CUT THE WATER OFF.
There viii he NO water for Two
Hours Tomorrow.

Yesterday afternoon just after THE
Superintendent Murray came to the
Office to give notice through the paper
that the water supply would be cut off
this afternoon from 3 to O'Clock. OF
course it was too late then. Superin-
tendent Murray this morning decided
that he would delay the shut-off till
tomorrow, saying that he wanted to
give no chance for complaint, and by
putting the notice in THE CITIZEN the
majority of consumers could be notified.
Users of city water are, therefore. in
formed that the supply will be cut off
tomorrow, Wednesday, afternoon be-
tween the hours OF and O'Clock. This
is made necessary in order that a broken
gate in the pipe line above the filter NAV
be repaired. Remember the hours and
govern yourselves accordingly.