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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21
FRENCH MONUMENTS.
Hugo's Greatness Still Goes Unrecognized
by Bronze or Marble.

by Bronze or Marble.
A monument to Gounod is decided
upon. A subscription of twenty thou
sand dollars was raised easily, rapidly
and triumphantly. The sculptor is
selected, and soon Paris will be en-
dowed with the statue of the COM
poser who will only be known to flu.
ture generations as the author of one
great creation, namely: Faust" and
the perpetrator thereafter of various
charming works, 'Mireille" and
"Romeo and Juliet" for example, and
also of large quantities of more OF less
dismal failures. No one will claim
that Gounod was the greatest com.
poser of his Gay; yet he is to be glori-
fed while the ashes of Victor Hugo lie
unburied in their dusty coffin, tossed
carelessly into the vaults of the Panth.
con and covered with the moldering
remains of the magnificent floral trib.
utes that were sent to do honor to his
funeral says the Paris correspondent
of the Philadelphia Telegraph.
A statue of Victor Hugo was decided
upon also, but the subscriptions Ian
guished and dwindled until they
stopped at an amount of twenty-five
hundred dollars. So the literary giant
of our generation is only commemo-
rated by his own great works, and his
neglected coffin is left unremarked,
save by the Mortified or Indifferent
eyes of the countless tourists who drift
to the Pantheon to see the new fres-
Goes, painted by the great artists of
France by order of the republic, and
who incidentally explore the vaults of
the huge temple.
Until not very long ago one huge va
can't space was visible at the Pantheon,
among the completed panels that sur
rounded it. AS was courteous to so
great an artist, the government had
offered a section of the Pantheon to
Meissonier to decorate. Meissonier
instantly accepted, although perfectly
conscious he could not paint one of
those huge frescoes any more than a
fly could fire cannon; but being an
artistic dog in the manger, he could
neither do it himself nor would he al.
low anyone else to take the work. OF
course, since his death it is satisfac
torily completed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21
A BARBER SHOP SURPRISE.
FashionabIy Dressed Young Lady Non
chalantly Takes IA Shave.


chalantly Takes u Shave.
But one of the dozen chairs in a pop
ular Cincinnati barber shop was vacant
about ten o'clock the other morning,
when fashionably dressed young
woman entered, removed her wrap,
veil and hat, handed them to the open
mouthed boy, walked to the vacant
chair, sat down in it, threw her head
back on the padded rest, and placed
her daintily shod feet on the foot
bench.
'Bangs trimmed?" asked the bar
ber
"Nope, shave!" she said, gazing COM
posedly at the ceiling.
"Huhn grunted the wonder-stricken
barber
"Shave," she repeated, without wink
ing, "here and here" pointing to her
upper lip and to the skin in front of
her ears,
The barber, says the Tribune, keep
ing his eyes on her all the time, tucked
towel under her chin, lathered the
pldCCS DIG DdIl llb1SuJCus oOIOPPOu ShO
razor and went to work. A few strokes
and it was over, and when her face
had been washed and powdered, she
left the chair, allowed the boy to put
on her wrap, adjusted her hat and veil
with much delibera ton, and, throwing
half dollar on the cashiers counter,
walked out.
The effect of this visit on the other
BARRIERS and their victims was to cause
the BARRIERS to forget, for the first time
in their lives, to tell the victims that
they needed shampoos, and the victims
to fail to notice the cuts in their faces
when the lady said shave"
The barber who shaved the pretty
lady, when he recovered, said there
was fine growth of hair on her face,
just enough when it got long to give
the skin slightly dark hue.
"She'd been there before" he added.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21
a MAN NOT EASILY KIIEn
The New Minister to Uruguay Hos Y.e
Many Narrow Escapes in the Ivos+

The New Minister to Uruprav rY,s H.,
Many Narrow Escapes in the West
A tall, slender man, with irop-prav
; beard and hair and piercing eyes which
roved around under a pair of heavy
gray eyebrows, sauntered through the
Arlington lobby at Washington the
other day. THAT is Granville Stpart
OF Montana, the new minister to Urn.
quay and Paraguay" said an old-timer
TO Star reporter. ''He is on his wav
70 his new post and this is the first
lime he has been east of the Mississippi
Tor quarter of a century. He has had
more startling adventures and hair
breadth escapes than almost anv man
you ever heard of. I remember one of
them well. Stuart was one of the first
pioneers in the territory of Montana
and was quartz crazy like the rest of
inem' lie was out on a prospecting
friP once and had dismounted from his
horse, leaving his rifle strapped to the
saddle, when the animal ran away. 1t
was late in the year and that night
snow began falling. He was miles
away from any habitation, in the heart
OF the mountains, and in searching for
his horse he lost his bearings. He had
only small pocketlnife and his fusee
safe only contained two or three fire.
makers. The first night he was out it
grew very cold and he made a fire,
which attracted some small birds.
Stuart caught about a dozen of them
and cooked them. For ten days he
wandered through the mountains with
nothing else to eat but those little
birds. One day an elk rubbed against
tree within two yards of him, but he
had nothing to kill it with. Then
frog crossed his path, but he was not
strong enough to catch up with it.
When he was nearly dead two InSians
found him and took him into their
camp to have fun with him. They fed
him up so as to get strong enough to
run while they could beat him with
tepee poles. One night he escaped,
stole a horse and got away He got
lost in the mountains again, and dog
goned if his second horse didn't get
away from him! He wandered aTotIhd
again for three or four days, and then,
when he had given up completely and
lain down to die, some of the party who
had gone out to hunt him up came
ACROSS him and carried him to camp. It.
is devoutly believed in Montana that
nothing can kill Granville Stuart. He
was mighty hunter in those days, too.
He has the record of killing sixteen elk
from one spot, without getting up. He
is man of powerful mind, and will
uphold the stars and stripes and all
that they mean in his new position"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21
A QUAKER HEARSE.
1t Is Used BY the Rich and Is the PIa:ncst
Hearse in This Country.

1t Is Used by the Rich and Is the PIa;ncst
Hearse in This Country.
The hearse that carries the remains
of the ordinary New York man to the
grave may be bedecked with waving
plumes and conspicuous festoons of
mourning, but the New York million
aire, if he follows the example of dead
and gone millionaires, makes his jour
ney in plain black vehicle with no
unnecessary Communications. This is
called the Quaker hearse.
The Quaker hearse, says a New York
exchange; is LED out only to people who
want to be buried as BELTS the rich.
Strictly speaking, there have been a
number of Quaker hearses, for these
vehicles, like all others, will wear out,
but as soon as one shows signs of going
TO pieces another precisely like it is
built, and it is a precious fiction of the
undertalers that the Quaker hearse
which carried its grim load to Green
wood recently is the same Quaker
hearse behind which the sad procession
of bygone generation marched slow
ly to the cemetery. 1t is called the
Quaker hearse because of it's extreme
simplicity, which has endeared it to the
Quakers. They and the millionaires
always use it.
1t is drawn by span of black horses
driven by black driver. John Gil
martin, who has been driving it for the
last twenty years, has a solemn face
that matches well the melancholy hue
of his clothes. Occasionally, specially
instructed, John puts draped cockades
on his horses and an extra wide weed
on his hat, but he considers plainness
preferable to an attempt at effect in
funerals.
So far as is known, no Quaker hearse
ever disgraced funeral by breaking
down while carrying body. Once the
Quaker had a narrow escape. That
was years ago, when Mayor Have
meyer died. The Quaker carried the
body safely, but no sooner had it re-
turned to the stable than the rear axle
gave way and the hearse came down
with crash. The present Quaker has
outworn three sets of wheels. Since
the original Quaker first set out on its
travels it has carried the remains Of
the Vanderbilts, Astors, Jay Gould,
Catharine Wolfe, the Stewards, Have
meyers, and many others. Henry S.
Ives made his last journey in the
Quaker. 1t is the plainest and finest
hea,;se in this country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21
SHAMEFUL BRUTALITY.
A Sick Convict Whipped and Beaten
and Dies Soon Afterward.

A Sick Convict Whipped and Beaten
and Dies Soon Afterward.
Special to The Statesman.
CALDWELL, Tex, June 15.-Robert
Newsom and Ben Mayes, overseers on
Koppe's convict farm, are held for
murder. On May 20 tramp painter
named Dunn was sent to the farm TO
work out a fine. Dunn complained OF
being sick, but was stripped and whip
ped for 40 minutes. In the same after.
noon he was again whipped by the
same guards and beaten with pistol
on the head. He was compelled,
though sick, to keep up with the gang
in the field. That night be fell ex~
hausted on the porch. A negro con-
Wet was ordered to drag hin INTO the
house, and Dunn soon died. Nothing
was done in the case until a released
convict came to town and exposed the
horrible state of affairs prevailing Cd
the farm. There is great indignation
and the convict question is being fully
investigated.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21
eREwsoME SIGHTS IN A MINE,
The Trip Down n Deep Shaft rlll of
Thrill to the Tenderfoot.

The Trip Down Deep Shaft Tall of
Thrill to the Tenderfoot.
Going down into the mine is indeed
thrilling experience and one rather
overwhelming to the ''tenderfoot,'
says a writer in Casters Magazine.
Enveloped in suits of waterproof, with
hats of oilskin and provided with can
dies, party ready for the descent pre-
sents grewsome spectacle, reminding
one forcibly of certain conceptions of
Dore. The cage, which serves for both
passengers and freight, rises TO level
with the floor of the shafthouse, and
is simply platform of wood with up
rights and framing of iron. This fits
closely in the shaft, being lowered and
raised by means of machinery puzzling
enough to the interested stranger,
with it's drum, sheaves, cable and vari-
GUS safety appliances. To take posi-
ton on that little square of wood, feel
ing that on this machinery, (which
does sometimes break, you know"
hangs all ones hope, requires some
courage. Much comfort is derived
from the assurance of the foreman that
this same cage has safely carried down
and up all the delivers below with never
an accident yet. With the warning,
'elbows in" the cage drops. With a
gasp one reaches wildly about to find
nothing to hold to in that damp dark
ness, growing so dense as that square
'hole of daylight" diminishes so rapid
ly, and down we glide through trick
ling waters without jar and in utter
silence till, with a thud, the cage stops,
two thousand five hundred feet under
ground.
The dim candle light casts weird
shadows as we follow the superin-
tendent along narrow gallery cut in
the igneous rock to connect the vein
with the shaft. At the intersection
another long gallery extends to the
right and left, but it's parallel walls
are smooth, often highly polished, at
times four feet apart; again more, but
always with an inclination to the
vertical. These are the faces of the
assured rock between which, over
head and below, is the vein matter
Through the gloomy darkness we pick
our way cautiously along the narrow
plank, resting on ties laid over the
gutterway. Below us the water rushes
down to the shaft, emptying into the
''sump," a continuation of the shaft
below the lowest level, serving as a
well out of which the water is lifted
BY The great pumps, whose continual
beat, up and down, up and down, with
monotonous regularity, breaks the ST.
lence like the throb of some great hid
den heart. Climbing ladder, or,
rather, five ladders-for there is plat
form at every twenty feet-in Egyptian
darkness, illumined only by the light
of candle, with ice cold water dripping
from each round and trickling along
ones arm and a small torrent from
the tarpaulin hat down ones back, is
apt to dampen, if not to eradicate for
ever, any lingering fancy for miners
life.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21
How Russians Destroy Rats.

The following is said to be the Rus.
sian method of destroying rats, and a.
it appears to be an effectual one those
who are annoyed with these animals
are recommended to try it. Catch in q
wire trap fifteen or twenty large rat;
feed them in an extra trap or wire
cage until you have the required mum
ber); then cease to feed them. They
will soon become ferocious and fight
kill and feed upon one another. When
only six or eight remain, turn them
loose. Accustomed to feed upon theiI
species they will hunt and destroy
numbers.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21
Two Greet Post Offices.

For several years past the post office
department at Washington has been
protesting against the inferior accom-
modations of the New York and Chi
cago offices, which are the govern
ment's chief money makers. Both
buildings are owned by the federal
government, and both are conducted
not from their liberal postal revenues,
but by appropriation made by congress.
The New York post Office, in use since
1875, is on land ceded by New York to
the federal government. The receipts
of the New York office in a year are
seven million dollars, The expenses,
including eight thousand dollars to the
postmaster end seventy-fve thousand
dollars for gas, fuel and other detailed
items. are two million five hundred
thousand dollars, leaving a net profit
to the government from its operation
of four million five hundred thousand
dollars. The receipts of the Chicago
Office are four million dollars year,
and the expenses (ncluding six thou
sand dollars for postmaster) are one
million five hundred thousand dollars,
leaving a net profit to the government
of two million five hundred thousand
dollars; so that New York and Chicago
together net seven million dollar
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21
BIG ELKS.
Conference of Prominent Members Of the
Order in Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, June 15.-Prominent
Elks were here today, among them
Hon. A. Apperly, grand exalted ruler.
Louisville; Hon. Geo. A. Quinlan,
Houston, Tex; H. A. Craycroft, Dali
las, Tex: Eugene Herman, Baltimore;
Hon. II, d. Fielder. Atlanta. An i'm
portant conference was held and the
plan of b lttle az jamestown outlined.
Letters and kilograms we're received
giving assurance that over 200 lodges
would be represented at jamestown
Monday; The committees all meet at
the Sherman house at jamestown to-
morrow night. 1t was determined
that any lodge that bad failed to pay
its per capita tax would not be per-
mitted TO be represented at the grand
lodge as a lodge, bu, any members
from these lodges who are members OF
the grand lodge who affirm their allie
glance will be admitted upon creden-
tials given by the committee on Gre
dentials. The party arrived In a
special over the Erie. They will be in
Jamestown tomorrow morning.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21
A Shower OF Feathers.

The eminent surgeon, Sir Ashley
Cooper, was fond of practical joke.
On one occasion he ascanded the
church tower of a village in Norfolk,
taking with him one of his mothers
pillows, and finding the wind blowing
directly to the next town, he let off
handfuls of feathers until he had
emptied the pillow. The local papers
reported this remarkable shower" OF
feathers, and offered various conject-
ures to account for it, and the account
was copied into other papers, and was
probably received as perfectly natural
occurrence
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21

The Hindus are great swimmers, and
swim dog fashion with their hands and
feet beating the water. The reason of
this is to scare their aquatic enemies.
There is a great swimming festival
after the first rains, when the rivers are
swollen. Then Hindus of all ages
enter the turbulent flood and swim a
given distance, shouting like demons
and creating an enormous commotion.
Crocodiles follow the swimmers and
the slower swimmers fall an easy prey
TO those awful monsters. But it is
sport-sport to those who take part in
the exciting adventures, but greater
sport to the thousands who follow the
men in the water from the banks, and
the victim to the nugger has little
sympathy wasted on him by the eager,
fun-loving crowd
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21
A Celestial "Iarker. 4"

An Egyptian shopl1eeper had deity
to whom he offered sacrifice every
morning, and whose duty it was in re-
turn for this reverence to stand in
front of the shop during the day, sort
of celestial barker" and direct the
attention of the people passing by to
the shop and its contentS
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21
Rucklen,a Arnica salVe

The best salve in the world for cuts bruises
sores, ulcers, salt rheum. fever sores, tetteI
chapped hands, cbillblains. corns and kin erup
tons and positively cures piles. OF no pay re-
quired. 1t is guaranteed TO give perfect ats
faction or money refunded Price 25 cents pei
box. For sale by John II. Chiles, the druggist
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-03-22
GREAT NORTHERN RhlLW III.

Daily trains between ST Paul,
Minneapolis, Sioux City, ST. Cloud,
Crookston, Moorhead, Fargo GRIND
Forks, Grafton. Winnipeg, Devils
Lake. Grelt Fails, Helena. Butte ],
kalispell, Spok ane a nd 3sSspiltt
Pacific Coast trains run Palace
Dining; nEd Sleeping Cars, Buffet, liz
5br,try Observable Smoking Cars, 3
Free Culonist Sleepers, etc sss
Connections at ST Paul and Min
neapolis With trains to and from
Lake Superior points, Chicago, ST..
Louis and the East, South and
Southwest.
Crosses the Rock i and Cascade
Mountains ii ,lssv light, giving pa
5engers Il chance to see some Of tie
finest scenery in america
Connections az ssSesitts MI Inst cam
Iers for Puget Sound points, C;alifor-
nia, Alaska, .lsi pan and China, alld
by rail to Pacific lsonst points
Connections Mt 0lfiel, s Ferry,
Idaho, for Knnt en;ii river and lill e
points; at W'en;ttchre, " ash fer
Lake CheIan, the Upper Columbia
and tile Okanngan district.
Tickets aoh and baggage -checl el
for all principal poin 81
For puhlica tions andinforination
labout rates, routes, etc. al rl IS to-
r. B. WHITNEY,, a gaIst
Warren, hsiinn.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-03-22
Foldahl,

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Editor SHEAF; 1t looks now as fpo-
itics had begun to stir a little here
III Foldahl. Our Farmers Alliance,
which has been quietly asleep during
the past two years, will send dele
iates to the convention at Argyle.
I ndamong the delegatesis an entire
ly new Alliance man. II it is an office
that the convert has in sight, will
not shy at this writing. We will
probably hear from him later.
In spite OF the weather prophets in
ST. Louis, we have had beautiful wea-
ther this moth thus far.
Middle river is trying to rid itsell
OF ice, about a month earlier than
usual.
Miss Frida Samuelson closed hel
live months term OF school last Fri
day. She had arranged a fitting
program for the closing exercises
consisting ofsongs, readings and reel
tations by the pupils. A quartett,
composed OF children in the upper
class sang very well. Many peopl,
were present, and all agreed thu,
Miss Samuelson lad been a successful
teacher.
G. OIL.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-03-22
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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-03-22

CONGRESSMAN Boon is making q
determined effort to secure a govern
ment appropriation for the improve
n,ent 81 Red river, In our opinion
oil money expended on that stream
might as well be sunk in its bottom
az lar as any practical results are
concerned.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-03-22

WHEN a fellow-being, who has been
travelling the downward path to de-
Atruction, pauses in his course, and
sets his face in another direction, it
g our duty to extend d helping hand
70 such a brother. Woe be to him
who places any obstacles in the way
Of such a one.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-03-22
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