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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-01-25
TIE RITER BIT.
How Practical Joker Arouse% Got
Much sympathy.


How Practical Joker Arouses GOT
Much sympathy
In all the West there is no more
accomplished guyer than r. Porter
Ashe, who is also well known in New
York. His "stringing" and practical
jokes would fill an entertaining book
But he once was "called down. in u
way to give all his friends laugh at
his expense. He tells the yarn on
himself.
I'm going through the Sutro tun-
mel once | gave my hat to lady who
had lost hers, The dripping from
the tunnel roof which fell upon my
bead caused the hair to come out
In order to prevent badness | had
my head shaved and bought wig.
For the lark l purchased come
dams wig and had deal OF fun
with it
Zone day Reel Terry, the late
Billy Wallace, and l started for Tom
Williams ranch near Stockton. We
couldn't get seats together in the
train, and had to string out along
the car l sat next to burlycoun-
y
Getting confidential told him | was
a detective. When he looked in
credulous, l worked my wig from
beetling brow effect to high fore
head, and he was convinced.
"Ihen l poured into his ear ia lie
of love and woe Pointing out Wal
lace | said: I'm trailing that Young
chap. He's going to Stockton to
marry girl against her parents
wishes, and I'm hired to see that he
doesn't get her.
"My friend grew greatly inter.
ested as | piled on the details, and
when | worked up romance about
the separation for no good reason of
tho two loving hearts, he shifted
audibly and the tears coursed down
his cheeks. | was just enjoying the
joke immensely when we reached
Lathrop, where Wallace and | were
to make close connection with the
Stockton train.
81 jumped for my hat overcoat
and bag, when | felt restraining
hand on my shoulder, and a rough
voice said:
" mo, you uOu .. lOu can leave
this train and stop that young fell
lows marriuge-not while I'm alivcn
alt was my fearful friend.
pleaded, swore it was all joke and
called for Wallace, but he was out of
sight. The train began to move and
my engagement at stockton was an
important one. 1t was fight or
nothing, so had to lift my would be
hero under the chin He lifted me
back on my eye, l broke away, and
jumped from the moving train.
peeled my shin, tore my trousers and
LEFT my NJ bat, noetapd bag on tbs.1 cag,-
81 telegraphed to Modesto to have
my belongings sent back, but this
man l had been stringing alighted at
an intermediate station-and |
haven't seen him or them since"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-01-25

EMT11EN DISCOVERED THEN HER LOVE.
Her excessive weeping deprived her
of what little strength she had. Her
self-control entirely forsoolS her. Gaz-
ing into her tear-dimmed eyes, Emilien
discovered there her love, The good
man, commonplace as he was, at last
comprehended the situation. He had
very tender heart, and he was pro.
foundly touched,
Some months after, Emma and Emil
lien were united in marriage. What
no one had suspected, all the world
now saw, The entire community
married them
For the rest of her life Emma tasted
without moments intermission the
most perfect felicity that one can
dream Of During forty years she
drifted, as it were, in Pacific ocean
of happiness and love.
Emma and Emilien had eight chill
dren, from whom they never separated
the two daughters of poor Anna.
They brought them all up we'll.
Some speak of the storms of love, "
What childishnessl Passion has its
inequalities, but true love has no
storms. The happiness of Emma
| after she had won her lover, was as a
] lull sth MlluOub tLhtS' GNCu ucdIll
was hardly for her. Life went out be-
cause the hoar of finishing had come,
She died at the age of seventy years,
without sickness.
My sister found this perfect exam
pie OF love as she comprehended it,
She esteemed Emilien the happiest of
men; for him an excellent woman
had condemned herself 10 life 81
austerity to him the most
comIlete guarantee of the exclusive
ness of her love. During i've years
she saw not single man. She had
accepted with innocent joy the eXpec-
tatiou of an external exclusion In
all battles that come in life there is a
recompense for those alone who dare
Happiness is like glory, To obtain it
is necessary to play high.
One day hazarded the observation
to my sister. 1T was great deal o
devotion to bestow upon mediocre
man"
"Oh. that was no matter" she re
sponded. Emilien certainly did no
. merit so much happiness, but VIII
does? See the false idea of Par STA
men of letters, who assume that grea
, men only are worthy of being loved
What childishness! You will see som
, day the righteousness of all that AL
the heroes who served their country,
acknowledge they may reward atfeC
t tom but the daubers of canvas, tn
| blotters of paper, what have they &c
= the heart? What Is husband thu
; belongs to every one?"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-01-25

The musical instrument called the
lewsharp, once very popular among
the negroes of the South and men
toned by doubtful chrOnicler as
one of the two instruments that Con
necticut Puritans might lawfully
play on Sunday, was really not
named in honor of the Jews 1t
was once called the jeustrump' or
toy trumpet, and the name jewsharp
is popular misapprehension.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-01-25

Systems of irrigation differ greatly
in character and cost. One of the
simplest in Southern California is at
Ranchito covering the lands of the
little Los Nietos valley, the walnut
belt OF Los Angeles county A large
stream taken from the San Gabriel.
river is carried in open bitches along
highways and across orchards to the
highest corner of each lot. At stated
times the land owners are
notified to turn out with
shovels to clean the sedi
ment from the bottom of the
ditches, so many hours for each
acre of land owned; and this work
and a small assessment for the Fan
zero who attends to the distribution
of the water are the only cost On
the other hand, the Riverside system,
supplying 10000 acres, was bought
by the land owners six years ago for
S4O0, 600, or $40 an acre. The cost
of water for orchard use is now
about 50 per acre per annum--New
York sun.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-01-25

-
A COW will go dry if given rough
treatment.
Bran is one OF the best of feeds for
the milk COW.
Fattening stock need some succu-
lent food for change.
Don't try to winter more stock
than can be well cared for.
Cornell university agricultural col
lege says that the fertilizer value OF
wheat bran IS $12, 80 per ton.
A writer says that there are some
men who ought to be ashamed to
look an honest horse in the face.
The hands are constantly giving
of insensible perspiration, and hence
the butter should not be worked with
the hands,
A writer thinks that if man can
grow cheap feed and turn it into
hfgh-priced butter he ought not tc
have a very hard time making a liv'
ing.
If the implement house has nc
floor or is not very dry, the wheels
of vehicles and machines should rest
on blocks or pieces OF plank to keep
the wheels dry
The hen will have her own way
and 1T is best to let her have it, work
ing on her line and mot on yours.
| She has about as little "sense" as any
thing that walks,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-01-25

The British cuckoo and the Ameri-
can crow blackbird were never
known to build nests as other birds
do. They content themselves with
Jepositing their eggs in the nests OF
others, usually choosing that of
some smaller representative OF tho
feathered tribe.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-01-25

In recent prize essay the writer
says After the SOW has had her
young she should be given food that
she could easily digest. At first it
is best to feed her lightly, and then
gradually increase the amount of
food she gets as the strain becomes
greater on her. Sickness should be
carefully guarded against both in
the mother and her young, and the
best projections against disease are
pure air and sunshine. They should
have II good warm pen, with yard
attached. The young pigs should be
taught to feed themselves as soon as
possible. Their trough should be
shallow lat-bottomed one, so arranged
that the sow cannot get to it, The
food Of the young pigs should con
sist first of milk, then of middlings,
oats, or barley-meal mixed with
warm milk. They may be weaned
gradually at the end of six or eight
weeks, and little oil-meal and also
corn and pea-moal, may be added
to their food. Their growth
should now be pushed along
as fast as possible, and they
should be fed regularly, say abou
five times day, but only given as
much as they will eat up clean each
time. A little salt may at
times be added. Care should be
taken that they are fed regularly as
much as they will eat Green oats
pulled by the roots is a good green
food for them, as is also green clover,
and it is we'll to have Il pasture field
or yard provided for the pigs to run
in, They should not be fed on foods
too fattening in their nature, such
as corn, when growing, as n young
pig will not grow well If too fat; but
they should have green feed princi-
pally, as this will supply materials
for the building of bone and growing
OF mVscle TO finish them off in the
fall for the market they should have
corn, soaked peas, or pea-meal;
the latter is said to make the
meat solid, A very good mixture of
food consists of barley, peas, and
oats chopped together. Some prefer
cooked roots and pumpkins mixed
with pea or barley meal to begin fat
tening on. -Colman's Rural World.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-01-25
THE FARM AND HOME.
TIES TED RATIONS SUITABLE
FOR DAIRY COWS.
Heavy Feeders Arc Heavy NIilkcrs-Tie
Drains and where to Put Them
From WEAVING Unth NIarkct-Fsrm
Notes aud Home Hints.


Nations for Dairy Cows.
A heavy mixer is also invariably
a heavy feeder Milk cannot be pro
duced except at tho expenditure of
feed any more than growth or flesh
can be produced without feed. 1t
follows that il we desire our COWS to
be profitable mixers they must be
fed we'll Now the kind of feed has
oven greater influence on the pro-
duction Of milk than it has on the
production of flesh. The ration must
Iutain large proportion of protein
in order that it may supply the con-
sttuents of the milk, writes c. c.
George. in journal of Agriculture.
Ordinary milk contains between thir-
teen and fourteen per cent solids;
these solids are made up of cheese
matter fat and milk sugar. The
cheese matter, or casoin, is almost
pure protein, and must be furnished
by the feed. The fat in the milk is
furnished partly from the fat in the
feed, but chiefly by the breaking up OF
the protein in the feed eliminating
the nitrogen and combining the other
clements in its composition, carbon,
oxygen and hydrogen, in to proper
tion in which they appear in fat.
This explains why cows giving milk
do SO much better when bran, shorts,
or oil meal, substances which are
rich in protein. are added to the
feed. The dairyman who would get
the best returns from his COWS must
therefore see that their feed contains
the necessary elements of nutrition
and it is almost of equal Importance
that the feed should be palatable. 1t
must go down easily and with rel
ish The more she can eat under
these conditions the better the re
turn will be. The New Jersey OK
pertinent station publishes the fol-
lowing combination of feeds among
those which have been successfully
tried there. Each ration is intended
for one day and the quantities given
are those suitable for a dairy cow
weighing 1000 pounds;
No. Ito lbs corn stalks, lbs.
corn meal, 3 lbs. hominy meal, 6 lbs.
wheat bran, lbs. cotton-seed meal,
lbs roots.
no - IDS clover nay IDS
oaIs straw lbs corn meal lbs
mat sprouts IDS wheat bran SIos'
!lnseed meal
NO. 3'---lO IDS corn stalks, lbs
wn4at strS&iSs 4"l6E df1eu brew G5r 3
grains, 3 lbs. wheat bran, 2 lbs. corn
meal, , lbs. cotton seed meal.
No, 10 lbs. corn ensilage, 6 lbs.
malt sprouts, lbs. wheat middlings,
lDs. llnseed meal
The news boy., 1894-11-17
Mixed in More Meanness.

The first ripple upon the bosom OF
the political sea in this locality was
occasioned yesterday by the recent,
from Benton, Scott county, of a COPY
OF a secret circular purporting to
have been signed by "Many Demo
Gratis. The lie and fraud was issued
from the office of the Benton Record.
owned and operated by brother-ip,
law of Ed Rowe, the Republican nom
inee for county clerk of this county.
and urged the friends of Jxdge Heg,
gle to scratch the name of Enoch
Bell, the Democratic nominee, alleged
In the circular to have secured the
nomination by fraud, and substitute
the name of young Rowe. The circu-
lar is made to read as though it had
the endorsement of Judge Heggie. A
circular from Judge Heggie, however.
puts a quiteus upon that assumption.
Perhaps if the discovery of this des-
picable trick had not been made un-
Til late on election day it would have
had some effect on week -kneed Demo-
Gratis; as it is, however, the lie has
been SO promptly nailed that nothing
but pity for the poor fool who sought
tocircumvept the epopular will through
The meanest sort of deception re-
aalns.-Charleston Democrat,
The news boy., 1894-11-17

limited demand at the open mints.
With this demand set up every
holder of bullion silver could carry it
to the mint and receive in exchange
for every 37lf grains full legal
tender silver dollar, which he could
use iii the payment of all his debts
both public and private.
Now we ask our correspondent if
any holder of silver bullion in this
country would be likely to take less
for it either in gold or silver than the
full legal tender dollars that he could
get for it at the mints? 1t is just as
reasonable to suppose that an owner
of wheat would sell it for 80 cents a
bushel in St. Louis when he could get
a dollar a bushel in New York.
To widen the circle of illustration.
does cur correspondent believe that
any holder of silver bullion in anv
part of the civilized world would take
less for it than the sum he could real.
ize by exchanging it for American
cotton, wheat ard other commodi-
ties? Less freights. commissions. etc.
the foreign bullion owner could, with
371I grains of silver, buy dollars
worth of any American commodity
III any part of the world.
The demand at the open mints of
the United States. backed by the
commercial power of the nation de-
rived from the necessity that the
world is under of buying our staple
products. would eXtinguish the com
mercial value Of silver--or to state
it differently, the commercial value
would be forced up to the mint value.
and BIZ grains would be worth full
legal tender dollar. With tho value
Of silver thus uplifted it would be i'm
possible for Europe to buy our wheat
and cotton at starvation prices. It
would be impossible for Argentina Or
any other country to compete with
cur wheat producers in any part of
the world. 1t would be impossible
for Europe to buy our cotton at prices
measured by deprecated silver. At
Ianta Constitution.
The news boy., 1894-11-17

AMoNG the causes which tontri
buted to the defeat of the 9th in this
State may b. rcconcQ the lack of q
first-class, fearless, truth telling
morning paper on the Democrati,
side. Such u paper we had before
the Rcpubiic fell into the hands of
Francis and the machine politicians
of his stripe. While Col. Jones was
ut the head OF the paper We had oc-
casionally to complain that there
was too much Jones therein, but
never that it wanted definite pol
icy or was lacking in snap and vigor.
During the late campaign it has been
Il Francis paper. u Cobb paper, has
blown hot and cold on the silver
questions; Il paper that told its read
ers that New York would 90 Demo-
cratic when it knew better: a papcr
that dclnded its readers with an as
sumed confidence in the result: a pa
per which has ilo use for our Cover
nor (who has no use for ClcvclaudO.
paper out of sympathy with the
Missouri delegation; a paper which
jubilatcd over the promotion of a
corporation lawyer to the L. S. SUI
prcme court bench and bclauded Mr..
Frantis for his share in that promo.
tion; Il paper, in short. more devoted
to the machine than the people.
With paper telling only the unvar-
n'shcd truth about the state of opin-
ION throughout the State instead of
representing it only in the light
most palatablc to it's readers. we
would have been forcwarned and
forearmed, and the stay-at- homes
would not now be able to saw. as
they are saying: I'VE thought there
were plenty without us. Overcon-
fidence was the principal cause of
the wreck, and for thatoverconfdcucc
Mlssouri 5 leading Democratic daily
is largely to blame.
The news boy., 1894-11-17
ong, withe name in black charac-

long, withe name in black charac-
tiers.
In Sarrancisco there is q circle
OF King daughters in which there
are eighthinese, two japanese, two
Syrian a two American women.
A eubipot of average newly fall
len snoweighs five and a half
pounds, d has twelve times the
bulk of aqual weight of water.
The celFated Sphinx, the figure
of the crohipg monstrosity near the
Great Pymid, is 172 feet and six
inches loIand J2 feet high.
Mohame edan widows find it diff
cult to re airy. An association to
assist the in finding husbands has
been orgaAed in Turkey.
Tank ca are now being used for
transportton of wine in bulk by the
2 Paris-Lyo- Mediterranean railroad
in France.
In 1873 1lring the great "tulir
craze, in tolland, single bulb OF
the "Semp Augustus sold for o
sum equal | 81, 200.
The news boy., 1894-11-17

The plea that the army should be
increased so that it may prove more
effective as an aid to the police is ut.
terly untenable. The capitalists who
are scared about their property in
the event of the strikes provoked by
their own cupidity are, doubtless.
anxious to increase the standing
army at the public cost, but even if
they must be protected by troops
thing which should never occur ex-
eepting in the last resort the lesson
OF the Chicago strike teaches us that
the presence OF mere handful of
troops is sufficient to overawe the
biggest kind of mob.
The news boy., 1894-11-17

Coy. MITCHELL. of Florida. saws
Corbett and Mitchell shall not fight
IN his State, even If he has to con
vene the legislature to prevent it.
Bully for Mitchell. He did his level
best to prevent former fight. but a
legal quibble thwartcd his laudable
design, We hope he will come out
atop this time. He is not the hand
soonest man alive, but his heart is in
the right place.
The news boy., 1894-11-17

The revelations of the Lexow COM
mission show that the rottennoss of
New York city's government extends
from the patrolman on his beat UP
through the entire police force, in
GLIDING commissioners. and to the
corporation counsel and the Judges
on the bench. 1t is rather disbeart-
enlng commentary ON the success of
our form of government. and the
worst of it is that what happens ON y
large scale in the big cities is apt to
happen in almost any town and even
in the counties. Ring rule, wherever
found, is pernicious, and is even more
SO than the autocratic methods we
Americans brag so much about being
free from.
The news boy., 1894-11-17
waterson Explains 1t.

! Never did great party 90 to the
people under such handicaps as were
carried by the Democrats into the
campaign just ended. The hard times
were bad enough, but they might
have been parriet. The faction fights
among the small claimants and rival
placesmen were bad enough; but par
ties have met and overcome such OBJ
stacles before now. Between the
record OF 'periidy and dishonor. as
ME-. Cleveland aptly describes it, to
face and defend in bapd.to- -bond
fight with the united Republicans,
led by Harrison, Mckinley and Reed
IT was disheurtehing for Democrats
To have to face, also, the dull. self
suiiiciency and stolid indifference of
an administration that made no sipn.
uttered no word, and. at least in the
State of New York. seemed to desire
the defeat of the regular Democratic
nominee. What wonder that so much
apathy in the official head should
breed dissatisfaction in the rank and
file? What wonder that with so
many knives whetted at Washington
there was blood upon the moon down
in the precincts? But it is over. and.
let us hope. it is we'll over. We shall
have. time to look about us, and whilst
ourying our dead. to cast some bal
ance for the living
The battle for tariff reform will
have to 60 down to the foot and take
new start. The battle over the
money issue will soon be upon us,
We shall see whether there is Democ-
racy enough left of the true-blue
stripe to make great coat good
against all weather; or whether we
must still Wear a coat of many colors.
covering not homogeneous party.
inspired by faith and trust, but a
mere bundle of factions thrown to-
gether by the upheaval of the times.
The Republicans have made the
issue that the Democrats cannot sue
cossfully govern the country. Upon
the lines of our recent experience it
would seem that. at least the men
who have been at the front cannot.
AT any rate that seems to be tho
opinion of a majority of the voters.
But no more can the Republicans
govern 1t except by money or by force.
v hen they were in power they could
get along only by the aid of Doodle.
backed by bayonets. The Republican
party is now what it has always been.
1t was and it is essentially a war
party. 1t was and is essentially n
party of protection. The Democratic
party, purged of its baser clements
terminated by the constitutional doc
trine of Jetferson-inspired by the
national spirit Of Jackson-is the
natural, inevitable party of the Con-
stitution and the people. and as such
It Is bound to live and regain it's lost
prestige. Louisville Courier Journal.
The news boy., 1894-11-17

WE are in receipt of a CLUBBING
proposition from the Hosterman Pub
fishing Co., Springfield. Mass. They
offer us The American Farm News
or Womankind at ten cents Der wear
and want us to impose their publi-
cations upon patient. long-sufferinp
public by offering either of them
together with the NEwsBoY for one
dollar per year. We don't do that
sort of business. Whenever the
NEwsBoY reaches point where it
has to offer chromos in order to in.
duce people to subscribe for it. we'll
suspend business. We stand on orr
own bottcm, and you don catch US
drumming for some questionable pub
iication in order to get ridof ourown
We stand pat-and if you want to
see what we We got you must put up
the cash.
The news boy., 1894-11-17

LAST week we published an article
from the New Madrid Recon7conccrn-
ing the trial of the case of Crandall
VS.. Matthews, which took place in
that county three weeks ago. In its
account Of the proceedings the Rccon1
Is not explicit, and says that for
good reasons plaintiffs attorney.
Wilson Cramer. took non-suit
'the NEwSBoY had no reporter pre-
sent, INT from the best information
we can obtain Mr.. Cramer took q
non-suit because he failed to make n
case against Mr.. Matthews. Prob
ably this is the idea the RccorH in
tended to convey when it said that
plaintiff 5 attorney took non-suit
for good reasons. ." We know no.
thing regarding the facts. and are
governed only by what those who
were present tell us.
The news boy., 1894-11-17

Orr trade in cattle and beef pro.
ducts with Germany does not amount
to very much, not quite 81. 800. 900.
Or about 2per cent of cur exports in
that class: 50 that if she does shut
her ports to our cattle and beef we
will not lose so very much. But the
spirit in which it is done is retalia-
tory. Ii we will not trade with other
nations without placing needless du-
ties on their goods, we may bank on
them finding excuses OF one sort or
another for the exclusion OF our pro-
ducts.
The news boy., 1894-11-17

Orr new State legislature will
have before it the question Of the
substitution of district attorneys for
our present system OF county prose
cutting attorneys. We hope such a
provision will be made. 1t would re-
suit in our criminal laws being much
better enforced; in an enormous saw
ing in criminal costs and would do
away with the fool practice of cdu-
eating callow lawyers at the public
expense.