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The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-13

l. Half-PpiCG Sale
 MILLINERY Fl. MOSES & co. Successors to R. BALLERSTEIN & CO.,,
 S41 and S43 Chapel Street.
 We shall commence on Friday of this week a general Clearing Out Sale of Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets at Half Former Prices.
 15O Trimmed Velvet Hats, former
 price $6.50 each, now SEA-
 IUU ltIlllIIeu IIdlS dIlu bullIl6ISs lOT-
 merly $550, now $2.75.
 150 Trimmed Hats and Bonnets, for
 merly $4.50, now SPA. A variety of Evening and Theater
 Hats and Children's Millinery at
 same reduction.
 FRENCH FELT HATS. All of our French Felt Hats, Black and Colors, only new desirable shapes, at 75c each, formerly $1.25 each. 50 dozen Trimmed Sailors and Walk ing Hats at 25c each, former price 75c. RIBBON DEPARTMENT. RIBBONS For Fancy Work. RIBBONS For Millinery. RIBBONS For Dress Trimming. All at less than cost of production. Gros Grain Ribbons Satin and Gros Grain, Persian, Roman and Dres- den effects, in endless variety and all widths. Our Satin and Gros Grain Ribbons for Fancy Work, while of superior quality, are lower III prlCe Tndn the inferior unreliable would-be Silk
 goods advertised about town as Ribbons, = in reality, only trans parent strings. BARGAINS IN OSTRICH FEATHERS
 AND BOAS. 
 f. MOSES < O., 84l and 043 Chapel street. Sh a+SipsG IAIanilla, Wrapping ~ Building, Rooius Paper Co.,. PAPER, Book, News, Fine 29S, 800, 302 Papers and State Street. WINES. Plumbing and Gasfitting. J. H. Buckley, l79 Church St
The herald., 1895-10-20

know the Texas Ranger. They certainly
have never met him face to face when a
fight was imminent. The Texas Ran gers
have for years held record for bravery
and efficiency which cannot be equalled
by a like body of men in the world. The
Rangers are oil fighters. They are superb
horsem entn, splendid shots, de1trous in
the use of six-shooters and carbines, and
are always ready and even anxious to try
conclusions with those to whom they are
opposed.
Here is the official report of what the
Rangers accomplished during the yeai
1879: Miles ridden. 49, S64; scouts made,
451; arrests, 800. The arrests were all for
grave offenses, such as murder, horse and
cattle stealing, train and stage robbing,
highway robberies and other crimes OF
violence. Most of these arrests were
brought to terms at the business end OF
revolver. In addition to the arrests, thu
Rangers by their activity, made it i'm
possible for cattle and horse thieves to
ply their trade successfully.
There are at present about 200 rangers
IN Texas. They are separated into COM
panies and are kept on the border for
the most part They live in the open
air the year round. Nearly every night
in the year, rain or shine, they have
only the sky for roof and the bare
ground for a bed. Their pillows are the
saddles.
they live the hardest, toughest of lives
and danger is their delight. Thew are
all young men-too young to count the
cost, where duty is to be done and odds
faced. They are made up of the flower
of Texas manhood. wild, yelling,
cursing COW boy is looked upon with con-
tempt by them. They depend upon their
ak shooters and CarbineS, their GOODNESS
and craftsmanship, the known courage
of their comrades and the fact that they
are backed by the law of the state, and
oppOsition to their will is q thing to he
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followed by half the population of the
CITY. The walls are of granite, eight feet
thick. The floors are of marble and steel:
the interior walls are of iron and stone;
the arches and ceiling are of solid ma
sonry. The window castings are iron
sheathed; the stairways are of iron and
the roof is of granite; so solid and deli.
cately curved that projectile from one
OF the huge twelve-inch guns in the mod
ern battle ship would strike it and bound
away in some other direction. The build
ing was erected when the implements of
warfare were very crude compared with
those of today; yet it could withstand u
modern assault with more success than
perhaps any other building, not except
ing the treasury at Washington, whose
weakness has more than once been crit
icized.
Some years ago an Enllgish writer had
this to say about the sub-treasury build
ing: 1.-The officials OF the sub-treasury
seem to have lively apprehensions. that
some day outcast New York may rise in
its rage anG misery on the remaining
fourth of opulence and ease. Their
bastile of wealth is always ready to resist
assault by a forlorn hope. Its bullet
proof doors, hand grenades and Gatiing
guns are regarded as matters OF course.
Such precautions are common at every
store house OF riches in the city. Not
only can the safe deposit cellars be. Hooded
In the event OF nre, ouJ every passage vi
them can be Llled at moments notice
with scalding steam to Iepel mob.
The water and steam are pleasant
fancy of the English writer. They do
not exist there, at least in the way de-
scybed. No mob coulu get near enough
to the treasury TO make water and steam
of any use. These are the reasons: The
granite roof is studded with armored tur-
rets, strong enough to withstand hail
storm of bullets and built like the tur-
rets OH the monitors of the navy. Port
holes pirece the walls of the turrets.
Some are just large enough to hold the
muzzle OF a rife. and give the marks
man space to draw sight on the sur
rounding objects, while Others are large
enough for the nose OF the GHtling and
Maxim rapid fire guns.
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sit in the recess and do great execution
with their rifles through the portholes.
Every other window is fitted with a bon
net attachment. By detaching a pin
the bonnet swings outward so that it ex-
tends seevral feet outside the sill Two
men can sit inside and either shoot with
rifles through the portfolios or drop hand
grenades through hole in the bottom
upon any belligerent individuals who
may gather below.
In the roofs above the porches on the
Wall street and Pine street sides of the
building are dozens of holes about eight
inches in diameter. They look harm less
enough when You glance up at them from
the stone steps below, but each one of
those holes is the center of a fearful
arsenal. Grouped about they are boxes
holding dozens of pear-shapeu greuades.
Should any riotous mob strive to ascend
the granite steps leading to the entrance
DOORS one grenade loaded with its five
pounds Of bullets. dropped through one
of the holes. would scatter the assailanrs
in little pieces towards all points of the
compass.
Every precaution possible is taken to
keep the mob at distance from the
building, but should all these prove in
effectual and an entrance be gained, tho
real struggle would take place inside the
building. There are scures of small rooms
eacn parlt-oneu OH from tne Outer walls
by walls OF stone and steel. In event of
necessity each one of tbs rooms could be
made q for nidabls fortress.
Long, deep apertures. so narrow that
a fat man would find some difficulty in
working his way through, lead to the
money vaults. Should an army of burg
lasr try to force their way in, they could
emily pass through one at a time, and thev
could be picked off so easily by single
marksman on the other side that the pas
sage way would be choked up in no tme
There are four doors 10 each vault, and
ali fastened by time locks.
Sixteen immense steel bolts hold each
door, and it would easily be days job
for skilled burglar to cus through one
of these bolts. 1t would be easier for a
thief tc cut his way through the eight
The herald., 1895-10-20

The Rangers are paid $40 month and
| their rations and arms and ammunition
are furnished by the state. They pro-
| vide their own horses, the state paying
for them if they are killed. They are
unencum bered with baggage. they will
take the saddle at a minute e's notice to 20
on scout of a months duration. They
have no uniform. They have no mill
tary discipline, as discipline is generally
understood. but they obey their officers
and will go with them to certain death
without a murmur.
Ali of these things are we'll known to
Texans. to the COW boys BETTER perhaps.
than to the inhabitants OF the cities, and
il is extremely unlikely that any consid-
erable number of Texans will care, under
with the Texas Rangers when the latter
are out for business. Much as the people
of Dallas wanted the "blg fight" to
come off in that city. they would not
have tried to bring it off if the governor
had sent the Rangers there to prevent it.
even if there had beeen no legislative
action prohibiting the fight
Dallas wanted the fight and the money
would have brought more than the peo-
pie of the north who have never been
here can possibly understand. Dallas had
boom" number of years ago, and at
that time two-thirds of the real estate in
the city was mortgaged to half its (then)
value. The bottom dropped out of the
boom and the value of real estate fell.
Then the citizens aweke to the fact that
the city was practically mortgaged almost
to its full value. The mortgages were
held in the east or in England, and they
bore interest at the rare of 10 per cent
year. Only in the fall is money at all
plenty here. During all the rest of the
year it is very scarce.
When the Rangers start in to have law
and order they will get it. if they have
fo i,,
tain it, and there is one rule which has
ever obtained in all Ranger companies,
namely, Don't wait for the other man
to shoot first n. A. JENNINGS.
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Henceforth he would be one of the kings

Henceforth he would be one of the kings
of Wall street.
A happy vision golden myth. And
the gentleman cr1cksman knew it. Be-
hind those walls, within a few yards of
him, he knew there was enough money
to make thousand men rich. But he
also knew that there was no power with
in him that could bring these riches with
in touching distance. Like all other
cracksmen, skilled in his bu siness, he
knew something about the defenses Of
the subtreasury and with this knowledge
he concluded that he might just as easily
try to capture the rock of Gibraltar
singlehanded.
1t is a boast of the subtreasury people
that half a dozen Of the finest cracksmen
on earth could work undisturbed all night
on the building, with the most improved
burglar tools known to the craft and they
would BIZ no nearer their goal in the
III orning than they were tile evening pe-
fore. But the treasury officials do hot
depend upon the architectural strength
of the building for defending the riches
! it holds. The subtreasury is really a
great fortress. 1t could hold at bay a
mob of 90, 900 people and if they came
near enough. blow them into atoms.
| A tour of this building is an interesting
work and when it is over the visitor
| reaize1 the ute, hopelessness of any
/ attempt to rob or mob it.
| Fift, years ago work on the building
| was com m need and not a stick of wood
was ut into the structure. To set fire to
it is a.. lin possibility. The architect was
j.. Frazee, and the building was the pride
of his life. He used to go down town
| two or three times week, few years
ago, and gaze at it with admiration. If
anyone complimented the old man upon
the work, his delight was beautiful to see.
1t would make him talk too, and he
| would tell how each of the great Corin-
THAN columns. was laooriously drawn
down Broadway behind dozen oxen and
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mon posses 10 alone due 70 their reliance
on their own efficiency. They are proud
of the great name which they and their
predecessors have made in Texas. They
are selected with the greatest care and
the standard is high one. Every mem
Der of the force must so deport bimself
as to reflect credit upon the service; to
compel that respect which is due from
the people TO every conservator of the
peace Any conduct preJudical to the
service not tolerated..
The section which the rangers pole is
larger in area than all of New Engla md
and it is of sub character that were it
not for their work it would be given over
to lawlessnessand disorder TIE rangers
are sent to these sparsley settled regions
of the country where opportunity for es-
cape from the regular peace officers is
afforded.
Whenever asheriff is unable to cope
with lawlessn,ss he calls on the governor
and the rangers are sent to take charge.
Many times il the past has the governor
of Texas ordeed the rangers to 60 to
counties when the sheriff was in SYM
pathy with The lawless element and IN
such cases thy have acted independents
ly and without regard to the wishes of
the sheriff or other officers.
The Texas nngers PIT an end in 1876
to the cattle selling which had cursed the
lower Rio Grade border for many years.
With forty rnn Captain l.. H. McNelly,
perhaps the most famous of all the range
captains, swo'ped down on the border
and with hare riding ana harder fighting
did what thousands of Uncle Sans
troops had ben unable to do-put an end
to the raids Mexican cattle thieves in
Texas.
In the latte part of the same year
the Rangers under Sergeant John B.
Armstrong McNellys company, raided
the stronghold OF Kinghsher. and his
great band horse and cattle thieves in
Texas near agle Pass. arrested mem bers
of the BAN wherever found, killed a
The herald., 1895-10-20

feet of granite wall from the outside
than to 60 to work on the doors.
In fact all the danger from robbing lies
among those employed in the building
and they are chosen with such extreme
care and are so vigorously watched that
there is little danger from that source.
The sums handled are SO immense that,
of course, The temptation is great, but
no robbery has yet occurred in the SUBJ
treasury. although there have been many
in the treasury in Washington. AL the
employees are taught to look upon money
as so much merchandise-like ory goods,
groceries and provisions. The buying 2
capacity of the stuff probably never enters
this head of the handler. If it does and
he gives any signs of it, he is discharged
without delay. Whatever money is taken
from the vaults, two men go in together
as a check upon each other and to guard
against mistakes. At night, five men
patrol the building and every hour each
one OF them sends an call right to a
nearby point. Should this ''all right
be two minutes late squad of police
would be on the scene in no time. 1t is
difficult to imagine how this system could
be improved upon
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How the Many Millions
of the Sub-Treasury
Are Protected
CRACKSMEN HAVE NO CHANCE
Every Window and Room Can Be Turned
Into Fort on Short Notice.
The Arsenal Is Kept
Strictly Up to Date

Many q fine cracksman has taken a sur
reptitious trip into the Wall street dis
trict and gazed with jealous but admir-
ing eyes upon the white stone building
of the subtreasury. where hundre upon
hundreds of millions of good dollars are
stored all the time.
What pleasant dreams must have drifted
through the mind OF the gentleman
cracksman as he thought of all these
things. How nice it would be on dark,
rainy night to wallow in this ocean of
gold. silver and bank notes! How
greedily packages of hundred and thous-
and dollar bank notes would be stuffed
nto capacious pockets. He would walk
in poor man and walk out millionaire.
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Would Have Stopped the
COrbett=FitzSimmOnS
Prize Fight
FIGHTING IS THEIR TRADE
They Are the Sworn Eqegy Of the
Bad Cowboy...fiow They Are
Organized. They
Do-=-Their History

1t is we'll understood in Dallas that
had the legislature failed to pass the law
making prize fight in the state felony
it Yas the intention of Governor Cul3e
son to call out the Texas Rangers, locate
them there and stop the fight at all haz-
ards. With thirty or forty thousand men
on hand to SEQ the fight, including all the
turbulent characters of the state, such as
professional ''bad men," cowboys and
gam blers. many people thought that the
Rangers would be unable to carry out
the governors intentions against such
terrific odds.
Thoss who talk in this way cannot
The herald., 1895-10-20

within a quarter of an hour. 1t is safe
to say that if the emergency arises,
where the use of arms will be necessary,
those in the subtreasury will be found to
be in fine working order. Fifteen hum
dred hand grenades are scattered about
various parts of the building and it
would only take one of them to wreck
good sized structure.
Each one of tho many narrow windows
can be used as a miniature fortress.
They all have reoesses three feet deep,
and are fitted with shutters of one-quai-
ter inch boiler iron. The windows are
abont four feet square, large enough to
accom- modate two marksmen, who can
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carefully, and if they are worthy induces
the officials to introduce them into his
arsenal. IN this wav the defensive and
offensive equipments are kept strictly up
to date. He spends most of his time
cleaning and oiling the DO 45-caliber
repeating rifles; the 100 45-caliber revolv-
ers and the rapid-fire guns and keeping
the ammunition nicely creased. He also
inspects the hand grenades, some of them
three. Founders and others five Founders.
This old colore1 man is confident that
the subtreasury could stand off mob of
100, 900 men. The work is matter of
perpetual excitement to him and he goes
The herald., 1895-10-20

country what it had never before been,
safe for peaceable settlers. The following
year Captain Jesse l.. Hall, who sue,
ceeded to the command of the company
upon the death of McNelly, stopped the
terrible Taylor-Sutton feud in Dewitt
The herald., 1895-10-20

men, so that General Sam Houston could
gather his forces together, we're made up
in part of Texas rangers.
There is, | will venture to say, not a
memb Der of the Texas Rangers today who
would not go merrily to certain death to
uphold the ancient glory of the name he
bears.
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war, as state police under Davis, they
brought order to the Lone Star state in
the most turbulent times OF the recon-
struction days. The 200 men who fought
and died at the Alamo, who checked the
advance of Santa Ana's army of 10000
The herald., 1895-10-20
Loans Checks at Weddings

A new and original mode of making
money has been hit upon by an enter
prising capitalist of the metropolis.
Weddings have been numerous, and as
the babit of making numerous presents,
as we'll as wedding breakfast giving, Is
dying out the bold adventurer hos started
lavish present loans. His method is
this: He lends $1,000 note to the father
or other important relative of the bride,
which note is exhibited among the gift3
OF the fair one to intimidate or cheer
others into following the good example.
A detective is kept on the premises to
keep wary eye on the valuable trophy,
which, when its work of encourage
is done. is returned to its original own
er, plus handsome commission for the
use thereof. This, after all, is very little
worse than hiring dancing young men
for evening parties, which, it is whios
pered. does take place when mothers oIa
distressed and bantlings numerous.
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militia must not stand in their way if the
rangers have orders from the governor.
The rangers hold individually as much
power as any sheriff in Texas. They hold
more. They are not bounded by county
lines. They may summon posse at
any time to assist them in making ar
rests. That they seldom or never do sum-
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conuty,a feud which had ragged for twen-
ty years, and which had resulted IN hun
dreds OF murders. ana Hall had but
eighteen men for this work. as Arm
strong had butsp twenty-five for his. The
Rangers have fought against odds for
years. They fought against overpower-
ing odds when. Immediately alter the
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Up in thethird story, through numer-
Gus halls ad iron doors and up iron
winding stsrways, is the arsenal. An old
colored maj who fought in the navy and
on land is he king of this room. He is
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shrei. intelligent fellow and has
picked a wonderful knowledge of fire.
arms. follows all the new inventions
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Hosiery
Ladies' Onyx Black Cotton Hose pced o heel and toe
Black Cotton Hos white Oxford white 5OC
Chdens Cotton Hose ribbed medium weight prs LOO
Chdens Black HoSe French and Derby ribbed heavy weight SOO
knit half Hose and slate coo light heavy 25C
Gents Black knit half Hose, best island cotton Soc
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-04-19

bobtail street car. but where one has
half q million worth Of property and q
hundred lives In his charge eos per
month is not sufficient remuneration.
Such . man must know how to navigate
q ship just rs we'll as the master Of an
Atlantic liner. Ho must know that the
Garth is round. like u ball. and slightly
depressed at the poles; also that the
earth is composed of land and water.
and that she revolves upon her axle.
trees once in % hours, and that mid.
way between the poles there is an imag.
mary line called tho equator. All these
things no can hardly know positively ut
800 per month.
Ho may err at times OH q salary like
that. He might get off tho track n little,
as did q young maj here in tho treasury
department the other day.
Speaking Of olocutionary training and
its advantages, no said, Il tell you,
there's nothing like good evolutionary
training to give u man % fino resinous
tone of voice.
Yes" said another clerk, at must
help the pitch"
/ need hardly add that tho man is a
Tar Heel.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-04-19
SHE FELT DIFFERENTLY.
Arriving at tho Point where Proposals
Were Unnecessary.


Tho brown Dyed girls eyes were
sparkling and her checks were aglow
when She met tho blue eyed girl OH Jof-
fcrson avenue. Their greeting was efu.
sivc, rs girl greetings always are when
they arc III any sort of good terms with
each other, and they walked along to-
gCthCr for two or three minutes before
they began To talk about tho mon.
"Wcll.' exclaimed the brOwI eyed
girl, "all Two got to say is that if II
man in tho whole state of Michigan
were to ask mo to marry him now |
would reject him with paralyzing
promptitudc.
"Oh, Ruth, responded tho blue eyed
girl a%nxiously, why do you say that?
You didn't talk that way yesterday"
Perhaps didn't" said tho brown
eyed girl, ''but possibly matters have
changed in "a day"
"I'm awfully sorry To hear you talk
so, dear, said tho blue eyed girl, al.
most pathotically.
"Why, I'd like to know?' was tho
defiant inquiry.
Because, dear. it isn't n bit like
you, and | was SD hopeful you and
Frank would asroo and DO happy"
"Wolly' and tho brown eyed girls
eyes glowod iicrcoly.
Wasn't no up to SEQ you last night?"
asked tho blue eyed girl with u tone of
fear in her voice.
YES, he was" admitted the brown
eyed girl.
"And after that do you say what you
do about mem" and tho blue eyed girls
eyes grow moist.
She was an awfully good girl, with
real old fogy notions about love and
rapture and all that sort of thing.
Indeed | do" rotorted the brown
eyed girl. land why shouldn't ~
Because, dear, it sounds cold and
cruel and hoartless, rs no woman should
DO. Love is tho greatest thing in the
world, and ono can happily ignore it or
treat it rs "a material feeling. What did
| Frank do or say that you should talk so
differently from your sentiments of yes
| terday?"
Tho brown eyed girl ripplod over with
u laugh.
lyon dear. stupid thing" she OK
claimed. ''He proposed to me. and | &C.
ceptcd him. You would hardly under
those circumstances expect me to accept
q proposal Of marriage, would you? I'd
accept Frank again if he woro to ask
me, but that is scarcely necessary, l
think"
Then the blue eyed girl pinched tho
brown eyed girls arm and said she was
q horrid wretch for fooling her that
way. Detroit FREQ Press.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-04-19
AYs
He Knew Him..

Washington, hearing that tho colorcd
sentincls could not DO trusted, went out
night To ascertain If tho report was
correct. Tho countorsign vas Cam.
bridge" and tho general, disguised, rs
he thought, by u large oyorcoat, up
preached "a colored sentry.
"Who goes thore?' cried the sentinel.
"A friend" replied Washington.
Friend, advance unarmod and give
the countersign, said the colorcd man.
Washington camo up and said, "Rox.
bury"
mo, sab" was tho response.
"Modford, said Washington.
mo, sab" returned tho colorod sol.
dier.
charleston. said Washington.
The colorod man Immediately OK.
claimed. IL tell you, Massa Washing
ton, no man 90 by hero ont no say
Cambridge!'- Youths Companion.