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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-07-07
H0kE's HORSE.
How Secretary Smiths Animal Game in
Possession ofits Name.

New York sun.
Don't you know how Hoke Smiths
famous riding horse, Possumphat, got
his name ?" asked Mr.. Z. s. Flint, a
wcll-known cotton broker from Gal
weston, q personal friend Of the secre-
tary whose first name has made him
famous.
mo. Let us have the story" came
In unison fromthe party.
"Well, it was this way" said Mr..
Flint.
"You see, Hoke Smith had a favor
lite old negro servant, Uncle jim,
whose business it was to exercise the
secretary's horse when he lived down
in Atlanta. Uncle jim, like all other
good old Southern darkies, has a ten
der spot in his heart for sweet pota-
toes baked in the fat OF an OpOssum.
One morning shortly after the Honor
able Secretary's appointment to Mr..
Cleveland's cabinet, Unc,e Jim had
his masters horse out for a morn
ing's constitutional when he met a
friend, Uncle Sammy Ross, jogging
along the road on his old black mule.
The two negroes gradually let the
conversation drift into the discussion
of things to eat. The talk about corn
pone, cracking bread and watermel.
ons made Uncle Sammy's mouth wat.
err and worked him to such a state of
excitement that he challenged Uncle
Jim to a guessing contest.
"'I amt no bettIn' man, said Tn.
Gle Sammy, but III jest lay you dis
umbrcl agin dat ar4linen buster dat |
can guess de bestest thing to eat dc
very fust guess.'n
Uncle Jim said he would bet his
linen buster on condition that he
might have the first guess. Uncle
Sammy agreed, and both got down of
their ANIMALS and the articles were
laid on the rail fence for the winner.
"'Well, here's my say said Uncle
jim. Sweet taters and 'possum fat.
Uncle Sammy grew blue with anger
for he couldn't grow red, and thcr
picked up a short piece of rail and
started for Uncle Jim.
"'You outlandish niggah,' he said
'Yo' servant of poor white trash, yOu
amt never lef' nothin' to guess att
With this he gave Uncle jim a beat.
ing which laid him up for some weeks.
The Hon. Hoke Smith had a charge
Of assault and battery preferred
against Uncle Sammy and he was sem
to the county Jail for six months
When the story Of the guessing con
test was brought out by Mr.. Smith at
the trial it was the standing joke o
his friends for a month, and the hors,
that Uncle Jim rode that morning ha'
been called %Possamphat ever since"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-07-07
Mr.. Ferguson'S Saving Prayer.

The Seattle Press-Times.
Away back in the early sixties Nj.
Ferguson was defending Il man accns
cd Of beating his wife. The case was
on trial before a justice of the peace,
probably the same justice whodecided
that stealing a suck Of potatoes out Of
a canoe was ''piracy on the high seas
The accused was convicted, and the
justice promptly sentenced him to be
hanged.
"But you can't hang a man for heat.
ing his wife" cxpostulatcd Ferguson.
"The devil cant" said the justice,
bridling up. "Ain't he guilty:
Oughtn't any man to be hung who
would beat Il woman and that woman
his wife? And amt ! the only judge
in this county? If haven't got the
power to hang a man, who has, en-
I'll hang him within an hour won't
we, boys 2" he concluded. addressing
the crowd standing around, whose
sympathics were evidently with the
woman.
THAT we WILL" shouted the crowd.
Seeing that the Ease was beginning
to look serious for his client, Fergu'
son said:
"Well your honor, before the mdn
is hanged, I'd like to take him out BE-
hind that big tree and pray with him.
"All right" said the justice, and OH
went the prisoner and Ferguson
When they got behind the tree FER
guson said in an undertone:
"Now git. you id hound
And he got.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-07-07

RIVERSIDE, Cal. claims to be the rich
ost town in the world. 1t raises nothing
but fruit, and is dependent entirely upon
irrigation for its water. 1t was nothing
but a barren plain until the springs OF
the mountains above poured ~rivulcts in.
to It. One of it's features il an avenue oil
shade trees planted artiic,ally, six miles
in length.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-07-07
Ghelemorraf-S Star
BREAD rPos THE WATERS.

In the fall Of 1S49, said David Nc
Leod, the white-haired pioneer, &C.
cording to the San Francisco Examin-
err, l sailed from New Orleans for Cal
ifornla with 500 In my pocket by way
of Panama. On my arrival at Pana-
ma l took the Chagres fever and had
to lie over. l was a carpenter and
had brough my tools along.
One night as / lay In my tent Span
ish thieves broke in, stole all my
money and even carried away my
tools. When l woke up my condition
was desperate. However, l was about
well Of the fever and l set out to trail
the thieves. At length / found the
chest broken open with a few of the
tools yet remaining.
went to a man who kept a hotel
there and told him l was robbed, was
carpenter and had nothing to eat.
I told him l must have some work.
"Well," he said, "lll give you $40
apiece to cut windows through the
walls" l accepted the offer and he
took me in. 1t was an old Spanish
building, and the wood inside of the
brick was very tough. 1t took me
three days to cut one window. Final
ly, however, l discovered how to cut
the wood easily and then / made two
windows a day. In this way and by
Going other work, l finally got togeth-
er $500 again.
The steamer Panama was then just
leaving, and l got on her as n Of
the carpenters, the agreement being
! should pay my passage in this way.
had put in a wooden bulkhea1 in
the engine while the Panama was in
the harbor and it pleased the captain
so well that he placed the best sttae-
room at my disposal. But shortly
after we sailed it developed that
there was a sick mar on the deck, and
l went to him and gave up my state
room, and took his place, spreading
my blanckcts on the deck.
On our arrival here l went to work
at carpentcring on various ships in
harbor, and the sick man, who had at
length got well, took the position as
cashier in General Naglee's bank.
There were fifty or sixty vessels here,
a great many being from Sydney.
The first day l made SIG dollars and
some days l made $50, and again as
high as $50 and even more. / did SC
well that, though l arrived in May OF
1850, by October l had s 1850, all OF
which l had deposited with the cash
Ter in Naglee's bank.
But just then the bank broke, and
its doors were closed. l went to the
bank, but officers guarded it. l al
length saw the cashier, and he sale
the bank had gone to pieces and hi
didn't know whether he could get my
money out or not, but he would do 81
If possible. He was permitted to &
in at ! o'clock each evening, and that
night l stood in the rain and dark
ness as he came out and handed mt
the bag containing all my wealth
"You did me a kindness once" sale
he and here is your gold. l won't for
get it,"
l got away with my money In thu
dark and nobody was the wiser. Thi
has taught me to always favor a maj
whenever l can, for no one knows hov
badly he may need to have it som
day r~eciprocated.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-07-07

Commenting on the rolling cha''s
which catch the eye in every dlrccl'"
at the Worlds Fair, and which aic
engaged by tired sight-secrs AZ Wv
rate of IS ccnts, PR hour, the SEER
tihc American says of the young nle"
who push the chairs: tine a''e"
dants arc all physically capable young ;
men, who wear a neat blue UNIFORM
To what base uses have our co'''ss
students come. For several ye'''
they have furnished base pal' 'e" s.S
pitching and batting matcr'a'' ' III
now they are engaged in pushing ~" ".
ing chairs around the grouno VI ~"
Worlds Fair. What are they t0'''
to do next?
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-07-07

MOther--Now, i ssssr let me c''''
you at the jam again ~ ycu
Willie-l-I tried not 70
catch me this time.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-07-07

An old darkcy was under lndlc' 1.',s'
for some trivial ofense, and was WV.
out counsel. The judge appo Nod
Dung lawyer to defend him. WIN
never tried a case in court =. ,,s
As lie walked forwardto co,'' ,ne
client, the prisoner turnco
Judge and said ,,wyeh
"Y0' HOnnah, am d's W
what am dep'inted to offend me-
eyes" ,.rtsy.
swell" continued the olo s" snu.
"takc hit away, Jedge' ! p'e'''
ty."
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-07-07

A teacher was explaining to a child
how the trees developed their foliage
in spring time. "Ah, yes" said the
wee miss, 81 understand; they keep
their summer clothes in their trunks.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-07-07

Jimmie, didn't l tell you I would
whip you the next time you ran away
70 60 fishing while the water was SO
deep }"
II wasn't goln' TO do no nshin'. !
was just a-goin' to carry bait and 60
In swimmln'."
The record-union., 1893-03-08
PLEASING ACTIVITY.

The local Board of Health has resolved
that something should be done to better
our sewer system, and to provide for dis
posal of city sewage. We congratulate
the board that after long travail it has
been delivered of an opinion that every
one entertained two years ago when the
REcoRD-UNIoN. in elaborate detail ex-
planned the chemical deposition system
in operation in the East.
However, we have no desire to rouse
the temper of the board 1t has so far
broken ice and got into deep water that
we congratulate it upon its ability to
swim. 1t has done well in making a
move. But we cannot dispossess our
selves of the regret that the board did not
adopt the proposition three months ago
made to the city to name a citizens COM
mittee to gather all the needed business
data relative to sewage disposal systems
for use Of the board. The matter was re-
referred to the Board of Health for its
action and there it dropped,
Had the board said to the Trustees,
Eyes, gather that business and financial
data for us, we understand the scientific
branch of the business" it would to-day
have been in hands of the board in de-
tail. Now, however. the board proposes
to ask the City Engineer to estimate cost
and prepare plans for its examination
looking to better sewage disposal sys-
tem-presumably The chemical deposi-
ton method.
This is well, but no City Engineer can
do the work without getting together
from the East exactly the data that the
Trustees were solicited to have gathered
! three months ago.
We will do best by consulting the ex-
perience of cities that have tried the sys-
tenn and know precisely its cost.
Worcester, Mass, spent $4,000 in ex-
animation before she made movement
toward building works. With her
chemical deposition is now a success.
! We can have all the data of cost and
plans in that city, not only of construc-
ton but of three years of operation, sim
ply for the asking.
The Health Officer is right in his judg-
ment that chemical deposition is the
most economic and the swiftest method
!
for this city. The facts he sets forth in
his report are full of good suggestion.
The whole board, indeed, seems inspired
now by clear-headed and vigorous pur-
pose. Let it withstand the silurian as
saults that will be made upon it and pusI
its scheme rapidly to achievement.
The record-union., 1893-03-08
THE ELECTION FRAUDS IN SAN
FRANCISCO

The examination in court now going
on in San Francisco in contested cleo
ton case, is disclosing frauds of the most
outrageous character to have been perpe-
trated at the last election. II would seem
that not only were voters corrupted
largely, but after honest ballots were de-
posted they were tampered with system
atically. To negative the voters will,
cases this double marking was uniform
for scores of ballots to the defeat of a GER
tain candidate, and were made with
cross-stamp that was not an exact copy of
the official stamp, though close imita-
ton. The court has been free to say that
the examination as far as it has pro-
gressed, has developed astounding frauds.
So then, the reform ballot law is not to
protect the franchise after all. Though
all guards are thrown about the right of
the voter to cast his ballot uninfluenced
and free from COW and menace, the ballot is
thereafter to be committed to the manipu-
latlon OF men who deliberately rob the
elector Of his birthright. Such disclos-
ures lead up to revolutions. The people
will not always submit to this thievery
1t means undermining of the substruc-
ture of free government if permitted to
go on. There is only one remedy we can
conceive of and there is yet time to apply
it.
We have a nearly perfect ballot law;
now give the people good counting sys-
tenn. Let US have returning boards that
rascals cannot corrupt. To do this erect
boards distinct from the election boards.
Select men for them in manner to re-
duce the likelihood of corrupt mans
handling the ballots to the minimum. If
need be put a double guard over every
ballot-boX to see that no man handles the
ballots, except to open them in plain
view and in way and where he cannot
mark them, and only for the purpose of
calling off to the tally clerks. Let the
ballots be counted as fast as twenty-five
are cast and the result be posted. Re
quire that chosen representative of each
party shall be present to witness the
counting and let it be an essential that
these men shall be of good reputation in
their community. There is time in plenty
to draw and pass a short bill that will
cover the whole ground.
The record-union., 1893-03-08

A GooDLY portion of the Legislature
appears to be possessed by the idea that
there is something economic in employ
ing convicts upon public highway works.
1t is sad mistake. All such employing
costs the State more than is ever gained
by it. Such employment offers door
for jobbery. 1t entails upon prison keep
ers new and onerous duties; it involves
the employment of additional guards; of
cost for transportation; of expense for
guard-hOuses, etc. Convict labor when
SO employed Produces little, tends to cul-
tiyate brutality and is not reformatory in
its results.
The record-union., 1893-03-08
ARARE OPPORTUNITY
Good Agricultural Land for $40
to $40 per Acre.

The Pacific Improvement Company has re-
Gently purchased twelve thousand ceres Of
land in the heart of Feha-na County for the
purpose of promoting subdivision and settle
ment This land embraces lands from first
class Sacramento Valley agricultural land, to
land of fair average quality, and is offered at
from SO to $50 per acre, in subdivisions of
10, so, 120 16O and 800 acres.
The terms upon which these lands are offered
are especially attractive. They will be sold in
subdivisions, as above indicated, by the pay
ment of interest only for three years, at which
time the purchaser can begin the payment of
principal by paying the first of five equal an
nIal installments. Thus no part OF the prin-
cipal is to be paid tor three years. and then
the purchaser is to have five years in which to
pay five equal annual installments, with in
terest at the rate of per cent. per annum,
making payments extending over a period of
eight years. Intending purchasers are as
sured that this is an opportunity to purchase
land of fair average quality at so per acre,
and good agricultural land at $50 an acre.
with other grades of land at prices to CORE
spond between these figures.
The assertion is frequently made thst good
lands, suitable for general farming, and es-
pecially adapted for fruit-growing cannot be
had in California for less than from $50 to
800 an acre. An examination of the land
subject of this advertisement will prove TO
home-seekers that this is an opportunity for
the purchase Of good agricultural land at $40
an acre, and for qualities grading down to fair
agricultural land at SO an acre, on terms OF
payment which should make the disposition
of these lands to actual settlers result easy OF
accomplishment.
The primary object of the purchase Of this
body of land was the breaking up of a large
holding for the purpose of promoting its set
tlement in smaller quantities and its devotion
to diligent husbandry.
For further particulars, call upon or ad-
dress VIM. Is. MILLS, q.
Land Agent of the C. P. R. R., Fourth and
Townsend streets. San Francisco. Call
The record-union., 1893-03-08
A SATANIC DEVICE.

The Senate has decapitated the Assem-
bly, usury bill-not that it loved it less,
but because it loves its own, the Wilson
bill, more, The Assembly, since turn
about is fair play. ought to knock the life
out of the Senate usury bill. In this
manner may exact justice be done the
people.
Either bill is bad; the Senate bill is the
worst of all the known spawn of usury
viciousness, however. 1t will, if it be-
comes law, put premium upon per-
jury, cultivate coutempt for law-ahiding,
drive decent capital out of the markeisof
hire, turn over the money-lending BIT ST.
ness to the shylocks and mortgage every
poor man who needs help to the shark
who letters him with cut-throat mortgage
manacles. a.
It will paialyze building and loan
associations, and as it cannot reach lia-
tional bankers with its penalties. it " ii
give them superior advantages over all
others. Whoever has studied the opera
tons of usury laws, and their history is
voluminous but tunmistakable, knows that
of all the devices Of the devil to enlist the
The record-union., 1893-03-08
AN UNwIsE MEASURE.

Assembly Bill No. 354 has passed the
favorable report. 1t is an unwise meas
ure, because it upturns the State Board of
Health and the San Francisco Board of
Health, and strips the Governor of the
power to freely select the membership
of those boards.
The bill requires the Executive to name
as members of the boards an equal num-
Der of physicians from each of three
schools of medicine. 1t ought to be
enough to lay out the bill, that it delib-
erately precipitates into the two chief
sanitary boards of the State the war be-
tween the doctors, and that it gives to
two schools now out the balance of power
by combination, against the third school.
With such a condition of affairs nothing
but harm can resultin the effort to estab-
llsh sanitary regulations and check the
spread of contagious and infectious dis
ease. 1t will precipitate and keep up so
long as it is law fight over the Secre-
taryships of the boards.
But passing this view, and basing OBJ
lection upon broader ground, the bill is
bad because it hampers the Executive.
The Governor ought to be left free, as he
now is, to select the membership of the
two Boards of Health. 1t must be granted
that every prompting will inspire him to
make up good boards, of scientific and
| experienced men, who will work together
and in harmony. To dictate to HIM from
what sources he must select is to belittle
his functions and deprive him of that
freedom of action essential to good re-
suits.
The bill goes further than this and re-
quires that in San Francisco the visiting
physicians and surgeons shall be chosen
| from specific schools of medicine. This
will result in wrangle, jealousy and all
that over advice as to treatment and as to
all matters into which the widely differ
ing methods and principles of the schools
enter.
The whole scheme of dividing up the
membership is bad. 1t will not conserve
the science of medicine nor the public
health; on the contrary, it can result
only in inharmony and consequent pub
lie injury.
The record-union., 1893-03-08

labor of others in his behalf, usury law
is the most cunning. OF all the devices
known to humanity to put the bones of
financial victims crunching under the
cruel wheels of heartlessly- capital,
the usury laws take the palm. When the
California Legislature passes, if it can fall
SO low, a usury bill finally, Satan will
shout for joy. If there is no devil.
there ought to be one TO celebrate the
sulphurous event.
The record-union., 1893-03-08

WE have not had great admiration for
that pyrotechnical preacher, Rev. DR..
Talmage. His preaching eccentricity
has savored too much Of the ef1ortful, and
studied. But this pulpit orator has just
given voice to one criticism that has the
ring of spontaneity and the momentum
of irresistible truth and that deserves the
wider hearing the RECORD UNION can
give it,
The doctor locks horns with Solomon
as to the strength Of illustration. Solo
mon said, go to the ant, thou sluggard,"
but Talmage improves upon the wise
mans advice by moving a substitute
$50 to the hen, thou sluggard-she has to
scratch for living" That is wit and
Solomon's wisdom stands amended by it.
ralmage adds, and we lift our hat to him
for the sturdy sense of the paragraph:
I am in sympathy with the unpretentious.
old-fashioned hen, because, like most of us
she has to scratch for living. She knows at
the start the lesson which most pee of
good - nse are slow to learn-that the gain
ing of Il livelihood implies work and that
successes do not lie on the surface but are To-
be upturned by positive and continuous ef-
| fort. The reason that society and the church
and the world full of failures. so full OF
loafers, so full of dead-beats is because people
are not wise enough to take the lesson which
any hen would teach them, that if they
! would md for themselves and for those de
| pendent upon them anything worth having
| they must scratch for It,
The record-union., 1893-03-08
Special Agencies.

This paper is for sale at the following places:
L. P. Fishers, room 21, Merchants Exchange,
California street; the principal News Stands
and Hotels, and at the Market-street Ferry,
San Francisco.
Los ANGELEs.-Eclectic Book Store, corner
Second and Main streets.
SAN DIEGo.-Emmal & Co., $50 Fifth street.
CoRoNADo.-Hopkins & Cox. Coronado
Hotel.
SANTA A.-Hassinger's News Depot.
FREsNo.-C. 7. Cearley, iii street.
SANTA CRUZ.-Cooper Bros. News Depot.
As- Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
The record-union., 1893-03-08
TkIE DAILY
RECoRD-UyION.
The Leading Paper of the
Interior of California.

The pioneer journal, which,
from early years in the history
Of the coast, has maintained
the FRONT'RANK OF JOUR-
NALISM, having every news
facility with the San Francisco
leading dailies, and sustaining
the fullest public confidence.
The record-union., 1893-03-08
The REcoRD-UNIor and WEEKLY

The RECoRD-UNIoN and WEEKLY
UNION are the only papers on the Coast,
outside Of San Francisco, that re-
cetOe the full Associated Press Dis
patches from all parts Of the World. Out
sade Of San Francisco, they haze no com
petttorS, either IN influence or home and
general circulation throughout the State.
The record-union., 1893-03-08

threatens them with, they are uncon-
scious of it, and humbly beg in advance
of the knowledge to be forgiven and
spared this calamity.
The record-union., 1893-03-08
Weather Forecast.

Official forecast for the twenty-four hours
ending at midnight March Sth-Norihern
California-Cloudy and threatening weather,
with rain; warmer; brisk to high southerly
winds along the coast.
The record-union., 1893-03-08
gale Rrns. s. 90.
So Far at the Front.

w / Cll dU UIlC L ZULU.
THE SALE OF THE BANKRUPT STOCK
of ". |. 0rth still engrosses the public as
the throngs of people who daily crowd our
counters attest
So large a stock is not easily disposed of in
a short time unless the knife is used I'M
Sparingly.
We have so used it and cut prices have been
and are the order of the day. New goods are
arriving in such quantities we must have the
space.
Call and examine the following lines from
the above mentioned stock:
Colored Baby Bonnets and Sun Hats.
Fine White Embroidered Surah Silk Baby Bonnets
ChildrenS Colored Silk Sun Hats
Ladies Fine Muslin Corset Covers elegantly en-
brOdered
Ladies Biarru Gloves; sizes q, g. ~
Ladies Very Fine White HandkerChies richly en-
br0idered
large lot Of Dress Buttons, different kinds and all
COlOS
few Parasos in different Colors and'vaIues
While in the house ask to see the Spring
Novelties in Dress Goods
The Cloak Department is daily receiving
additions in the way of CapeS Jackets and
NewmarketS. Cut, make and styles guaranteed.
JUST RECEIVED Some of the choicest
styles the New York market affords in Dress
Garnitures:
CoIored Clan Bands in all the leading combinations
of COors for spring dress fabrics
Elegant Coored GaoGn Band Trimmings in tinse
effects.
Choice Opera Colored Bead Trimmings for evening
costumes
HALE BROS. & co.