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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-03-14
THE DUMMY LINE MATTER.

Mr.. Chiles, one of the owners of the
Dummy line, was seen yesterday by Il
Statesman reporter with reference to the
proposed sale or lease of the Dummy line
poperty to the Missouri, Kansas ana
Texas railroad. There is no truth in
the report that the Katy has made any
dicker with us for the road" said Mr.
Chiles. "Soon after we bought the road
we were approached by some Austin
people with proposition to buy the road
but we put such a steep price on 1t
that they could not afford to buy it. we
have bought our rolling stock, poles and
wire and intend as soon as possible to
operate the road as an electric road. AS
to the Katy making any proposition to
buy us out, | know nothing of the matter
except that l have heard it rumored on
the street. They have never made us an
offer for the road and we have never heard
of them wanting to make one. Tot he
present time, barring the offer by local
people to buy the road we have had no
offer at all for the road. We bought the
road to make money; we will operate it
and will sell it, of course, in case any
proposition looking thereto is made by
which we can clear money on our invest
ment, otherwise we will run the road
ourselves as an electric line"
In this connection it is well to note
that a Statesman reporter was informed
several weeks ago that the present rapid
transit line tried to buy the Dummy
line from its present owners.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-03-14

For forty years Prices Cream Baking
Powder has remained the standard fol-
purity, strength and wholcsomcncss fol
baking powders.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-03-14

Elmer & Amends prescription No. 2S5l
has cured thousands of cases of rheu-
matism No sufferer should fail to give
t trial. G. w. Preston & Co., agents
Galveston. Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-03-14

There is no such word as fail in the
bright lexicon of the housckecper who
uses DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-03-14

For the most toothsome potpies and
dumplings, use DR.. Prices Cream Bak-
ing Powder.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31
WHITNEY's TASK.

Ex-Secretary Whitney has returned from
Europe to find his party in New York pre-
pared to lay all its honors at his feet. He
can have anything the New York Democ-
racy can give, even to a commanding posi-
ton on the proposed committee to reorg an
ize Tammany. He will be supported by his
party in his State for everything in sight
and has already been suggested for Sena-
tor, Governor, Secretary of State and Pres
ident. All of which is not only fattering
to Mr.. Whitney, but attests the excellence
of his wisdom in going to Europe last fall
and leaving David Bennett Hill to face the
whirlwind of the election.
1t would appear reasonable supposition
that Hill and his stalwarts would be i'll
disposed to see all these honors offered to
man who practically deserted the party
in the darkest hour and left it to fight
without his leadership in the last CAM
paign. Such a supposition however,
would fail to take into consideration the
full extent of Hills human nature. It is
human to be jealous of rivals, but it is also
human to be fatigued at times, and Hill
just now is very much fatigued. He has
had enough for the present. His disas-
trous experience in the last election has
made him satisfied to sit down on his SEN
atoTial seat and rest. The outlook for the
next Democratic nominee for the Presi-
dency is not good. Mr.. Hill does not yearn
for it in his present mood of mind. Hence
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

from Asia, was giving to the CALL some
information concerning the price of labor
in the manufacturing industries of India,
which affords the American people album
dant reason for keeping vigilant watch
on the tariff. In the Hoogly jute works
he found the wages of men who weave $50
yards of burlap sacking day to be equiv
alent to 81 04 week; bag-sewers receive
about 50 cents week; first-class machin-
lists in repair-shops earn 10 cents day,
and many children are employed who are
paid about Is cents a week.
These are not exceptional payments.
Other large manufactures in India show
the same general rate of wages. Taking
the country through, the estimated cost OF
the labor employed in making $500 jute
bags is only about 50 cents. As result OF
his investigations Colonel Cole says: eff
political conditions in this country ever
force the workers of the United States to
compete with the labor OF India, distress
and degradation will surely come to the
homes of the land"
In that brief statement is the gist of the
eyer-vital and ever-pressing tariff question.
1t is of more Importance than the money
question, for it affects the ability OF the
American workingman to earn any money
at all of any kind. So long as there is a
possibility of the importation of foreign
goods to the extent of running American
industries and American homes, so long
will it be the supreme issue in our politics.
The necessities of the Democratic situa-
ton may impel Mr.. Whitney to seek to
evade it, but he will fail in the effort. The
tariff question will stay with US until pro-
lection, complete and thorough, has been
permanently established as the policy of
tho Notion
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31
A SACRED DEBT,

The appearance yesterday of the veterans
OF the Grand Army marching in orderly
array to strew flowers upon the graves of
their former comrades and to recall the
proud and tender memories of that long
war in which they offered their lives that
the Nation might be saved, could hardly
fail to impress the public mind with a
consciousness OF the deep debt which the
country owes to these brave men and the
profound obligation upon this generation
to pay it not in words only but in deeds.
In every town throughout the Union
where the veterans marched the people
could note how the ranks are thinning and
now age and disease are weakening those
who still survive. The war for the Union
was fought by young men. Many of the
most heroic among them were hardly more
than boys. They went forth at the call of
their country regardless of every thought
OF personal welfare and conscious only of
the danger to the Republic and the su-
preme need of maintaining it for the pro-
lection and the glory of coming genera
lions. By their great sacrifice of self in
the best years of youth was our country
saved for US, and he has but little true love
Tor that country or is niggard in patriot
ism who now in their old age would grudge
to these veterans any honor or any posi-
BILE recompense for the services that have
been Of such value to US.
1t is to be regretted that the pensions be-
slowed upon Union veterans should ever
have become matter of political contro-
versy. There never should have been a
politician, much less party, in the United
hot 1o,x
this and so honorable both to the Republic
that bestows and the veteran who receives.
What is it the Nation does not owe to these
men? Its strength abroad, its security at
home; its peace, dignity, honor, and to a
large extent its wealth, are due to them.
Every citizen of the Republic is more or
less indebted to them for the prosperity
amid which he works and the established
order OF liberty and law under which he en-
joys the fruits of his labor. This debt,
common to the Nation and to its every citi-
zen, is most sacred one. 1t should never
be questioned. Its payment should never
be opposed. There should be only a sense
OF pride and gladness in the fact that the
Republic is able TO maintain pension roll
the largest in the history of the world.
In the natural order Of events the vet
Grams will not be with Us long. The pres
ent generation can give the helpfulness
that will tighten the burdens of the last
years of the aging heroes, but the next
generation can give nothing but words.
We can give honor to the veterans them
selves, but those who come after us can do
no more than decorate their graves. 1t
should be accounted among the highest
privileges, therefore, to make a suitable
provision out of the abundant wealth of
the Nation for needy veterans, and any one
who is either opposed to the gift or niggard
in the giving should not be honored by the
people with any Office in the land.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31
THE VITAL ISSUE.

Ex-Secretary Whitney. who is evidently
in training for the Democratic nomination
for the Presidency in 1895, stated on his
arrival at New York that in the coming
campaign the tariff would not be an issue.
in view of the deficit in the National reve-
nue. and the increasing imports of foreign
goods into the country, it would seem that
the ex-Secretary's statement was the result
rather of a wish than a thought. The
tariff will certainly be an issue before the
people until it is settled right, and it lacks
great deal OF being in that condition now.
Even if the condition of the National
treasury were not itself sufficient to keep
the tariff as vital issue in politics, there
are other factors that would. About the
time Whitney in New York was giving his
opinion on the subject Colonel Nelson
Cole of st. Louis, who has just returned
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

there is NO opposition on his part to the
whitney boom of the day, but OF course If
py any chance Democratic prospects should
brighten before 1896, politics would be diff
1erent and then also Hills attitude toward
hitney might be different.
AT the present outlook, however, Whit
ney stands first in the line for the Demo-
cratic nomination in 1896. 1t is not alto
gether an enviable position. The party is
demoralized by the disasters OF the last
Two years, divided on many OF the most
important issues of the day, disorganized
oy the faction fights among the leaders,
ana almost hopelesslv respondent IN every
sectlon OF the Union. To make sure OF a
nomination under conditions that would
render 1t worth fighting for, Whitney will
nave to revive the spirit OF the party,
quiet the factious leaders, harmonic the
dlssensions, establish a basis of agreement
on platform and thoroughly reorganize
the machine in every State. He has just
about year in which to do this work,
and no one who has watched the course of
the Democrats during the last two years
can doubt that it involves enormous diff
culties.
Great as the task is, the man who seems
about to undertake it is not wholly I'M
worthy of it. Despite his associations
with millionaires and with the giant
monopolies of the country, Whitney is
one OF the few living Democrats who meas
ures up to the standard of statesman.
His administration OF the Navy Depart
ment was the one success of Cleveland's
first term as President. His management
OF men and discordant factions in the
Chicago convention of 1892 was the one
thing that made Cleveland's denomination
possible. He has, therefore, a high pres
tige in his party, and in entering upon the
great task which is now before him will
have the advantage of being already in
possession of the confidence of the party
leaders and having in no small measure
the support of some of the ablest among
them. He has, therefore, sufficient
chance of success to excite interest in his
undertaking, and his course will be
watched with close attention.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31
PERSONAL.

J. M. McPike of Napa is at the Baldwin.
L. P. Brant of the army is at the Occidental.
Frank h. Farrar, an attorney of MERGED, is at
the Grand.
Isaac Bird Jr., merchant OF MERGED, is stay.
ing at the Grand.
w. Barbour, business man of Hanford, is
staying at the Lick.
W. t. Ellis Jr., banker of MarysviIle, is a
guest at the Palace.
General G. W. B. Montgomery of Chico Is
staying at the Grand.
c. R. Mason, manager Of the Byron Springs
Hotel, Is at the Palace
Eugene Ysaye and Anne Lachaume registered
yesterday at the Baldwin.
W. b. Clary Jr., well-known mining man OF
Sheep Ranch, is at.the Lick.
L. Dwight, leading banker of Toronto, Can
ada, is a guest at the California.
I'D. E. Wiley, merchant of Vina, was one OF
yesterdays arrivals at the Russ.
William h. Otis of the United States Geo
logical Survey is at the Occidental.
]. J. Chapman, a mining man of Ell Dorado,
was one of yesterdays arrivals at the Grand.
Sheriff A. C. Busch of Sierra County came
down from Downieville yesterday and regis
tered at the Russ.
E. Comenge of Paris, who is interested with
Baron La Grange in some Trinity County
mines, registered at the Palace yesterday.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31
!
$1,000
REWARD!
:

We are mad through and through
To any one who will prove that a single
pair of our Shoes are made by Chinese we
will forfeit $10O0-to him direct or any
charitable institution of s. F. that he NAV
designate.
For the sake of truth and justice let those
who make such statements either prove or
swallow their wordsl
To the people of S. f. and suburbs
Exclusively we RETAIL OUR SHOES
AT FACTORY PRICEs-the retailers
cost-not for direct profit, but for the
special purpose often explained; our
Shoes are high class-better than the
average retail stock Though factory prices
make them cheap; they are made here by
white labor-in fact we are the PIONEERS
of white labor shoes in this city.
There's the plain straight truth which
we back up with our word and our money
and BOTH are goodl
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Mexico's greatest bandmaster, Payen, has
organized band of the best instrumentalists
in the country and is going to bring it to this
country.
The illuminated manuscript copy of the Cos
pels sent to Mr.. Gladstone by the Armenians is
said to be finer than anything in the British
Museum.
Gladstone said recently that he was too old to
have an opinion on the new woman. His tideal
woman had not altered in the last three-score
years and ten"
jules Verne can still work steadily for five
or six hours day, though he is in his seventy
ninth year. He has five stories all ready for the
printer and is engaged upon another for 1897.
Bishop Leonard (EpiscopaD OF Ohio, in his
convention address of last week, made bitter
attack on rationalistic clergymen in the church,
calling them traitors in the cump.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

''Bumpley seems wonderfully we'll satisfied
with himself"
eyes. There's nothing you can mention that
he doesn't think he knows all about"
"Well, 1 suppose you can't blame him. He
| has no children old enough to ask questions
and take the conceit out of him. "-Washing-
| ton Star.
"Take something to drink" said his friend.
"No, thank you"
ssNoi Why not?"
"In the first place." said the party in ques-
| ton, ''because I am secretary OF temperance
society that is to meet to-day and must be
consistent; in the second place, this is the
anniversary of my fathers death, and out of
respect to his memory I have promised never
to drink on this day, and il the third place 1
have just taken something. boston Herald
Patient (after wound has healed)-Yes, am
all right again, but fear that l shall carry
this terrible scar as long as live.
Surgeon (reassuringly)-Yes; but then, you
know, you may live only year or two.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
''False one" he said, al would that 1 never
had wed you'll Your teeth are false, your COM
plexion is store-made, your hair is anotheFs
You are wholly false"
mo, not wholly" she replied. "I nave a
mind of my own as you well know" And he
was forced to admit the bitter truth OF her
Observation-Disclosures Tribune.
mo-" said Cholly Anglomane, al will nevah
consent to having twadespeople in the club"
'Why Dot?"
Because 1 have twouble enough to avoid
meeting my cweditors as it is."-Washington
| Star.
Mrs. Snaggs (reading the fashion news)-Yel-
| low is to be very fashionable color.
| Mr.. Snaggs-Then our baby is right in style.
| He's fredericksburg Commercial-Gazette.
"Uglymugs must be tough-looking man,
| from all hear"
| "He must bel hear he's afraid of his own
adow."-Atlanta Constitution.
| First humorist-That new man on the Batter
is writing some funny stuff, isn't he2
| Second humorist (gloomily)-Yes; but, con-
| found him, he's spelling the business.
| First humorist-HoW so?
| Second humorist (still more gloomily)-He
invented new joke the other day.-Somervile,
Journal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31
..nIrs. Wins1ow,s soothine sxrnn

Has been used fifty years by millions Of moth
ers for their children while Teething with perfect
success. 1t soothes the child softens the gums al
lays Pain cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels
and is the best remedy for Darrhoeas, whether
arising from teething or other causes For sale by
Druggists in every part Of the world Be sure and
ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup 25c
bottle.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

give encouragement to every progressive move.
ment that will give him permanent employ.
ment.-Woodland Mail.
It is refreshing with these cool, delightful
DAYS to read about the sultry heat OF the East
and general discomfort. If people will leave
California and the Pacific in the summer they
must put I'D with it.-Pasadena News.
This Republic is great and strong enough to
formulate and carry out system of coinage
and currency OF its own independent of the
king and queen ridden countries OF the Old
World. The country needs free gold and silver
coinage and a well-secured paper currency,
and the nations that don't want to exchange
and trade with US could let US alone-Shasta
Courier.
Good roads accomplish wonders Tor rural
populations. They not only facilitate the mar
keting of farm produce, but they encourage
sociability. a thing which is seriously lacking
in our rural life of to-day. The dreary Isolation
of the farmer on account of the d1thcuIty IN
moving about in certain seasons in the year
is responsible in great measure for the rapid
increase in the population of the cities at the
expense of the country.-Dixon Tribune.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

The periophthalmus, native of the
Malayan mangrove swamps, is the only
fish which breathes with its tail. If the
tail be painted over with oil or Yarnish the
fish dies of suffocation.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

Those California Indians who, from sheer
laz1ness, doubled up the bodies of their dead
like jackknife so that they would occupy a
small grave, thus saving the diggers labor, were
evidently the original silurians.
The Agricultural Department has decided
that the peanut is not nut, but a pea. Thus
does the present administration gradually
solve problems of great pith and moment that
were neglected by its Republican predecessors.
"nlle cities and towns throughout the State
are scraping and saving and, in some instances.
starving, Red Bluff is pursuing the even tenor
OF her way with her finances in healthy con.
dltion and the exceedingly low tax rate of 37l.
cents on the $1O0.-Red Bluff Sentinel
Taxpayers comment favorably on the promo.
sltlon to bond the county for funds to improve
the public highways. They are awaking to the
Iact that such action is not only means of re-
oucing the rates of taxation, but will be the
nrst step in encouraging immigration.-Solano
Republican
NO town can build itself up in enduring pros
perity which ignores the value of poor man
and his family. 1t must afford him good
schools for the education of bis family: it must
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

A bad man can as easily starch the wind
as make himself seem dignified in the eyes
of the wise.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

That consolation which does not elevate
Us above the plane of our suffering merely
gives our pain a rest for renewed activity
later.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

Gold standard Democrats may be willing
to follow Whitney as a Moses, but the
silver Democrats would take to the wilder
ness.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

He who buys homemade article puts
bread into some poor Californian's mouth.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

SPRING cleaning, when the nerves and body have
been strengthened by Hoods Sarsaparina, will sud-
denly lose its terrors Merit wins and it has placed
Hoods Sarsaparilla on top as blood purifier
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

So long as there is deficit in the reve-
nues of the country, tariff revision Will be
q live issue.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

WRITING Tablets from sc to SOC each. "DeI
Monte" "Ideal," Saxon Bond" and "Over-
land Parchment" are the best. Sanborn, Vail
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

A good many people spend more time in
wishing for money than in working for it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

Some of the country towns of New York
are talking of setting the unemployed to
work as a rural police to head off the
tramps.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

Through tears for the past shines hope
for the future.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

REGULATE your gas, stop breaking globes,
save 20 to 40 per cent. Gas Consumers Asso-
citation, 316 Post street, established 1878.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

Senator Sherman's speech did not suit
the extremists and was not intended to.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

Perhaps Grover will use the vacancy in
the Cabinet to reward a friend, and per.
haps he viii use it to head off a rival.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

If Cleveland expects to have a chance
for third term he will have to hurry up
and corral the Whitney boom in the
State Office.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

The people honored themselves yester-
day in doing honor to the veterans.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

Those who lack self-pride cannot be e1-
pected to be proud of their State.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

Every purchaser who asks for homemade
goods encourages local industry.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

The weather of Decoration day was itself
a decoration.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

WINE-DRINKING people are healthy. NJ e. K.
wines, sc glass. Mohns & Kaltenbach. 20 Mkt
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

There is demand in Colorado for a
crusade against the dandelion, which in
that State is said to be worse than the
Russian thistle.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

The forerunner OF the good things to
which the Santa Cruz Water Carnival will
give birth is the promise OF railroad OF
her own to San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

At the present time there are three
Democratic parties in Kentucky, and as
each is welded to faction fight, the out
look for Cain raising is good.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

The enterprise of capital makes an
opening for labor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31

The world grows wiser every day, and
international bimetallism is coming.