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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-02-18
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS MONDAY, FEBRUARY is, Isl
AUSTIN BUDGET.
The Bill Discussed.-The Age
Of Consent Again. Etc.

- ~ W. LII pm lSliiO OIl1S
and the senate has passed the
one giving the University Re
gents control of the University
lands, it going through with but
one dissenting vote, that of
Senator Steele, who appears to
be opposed to high education.
The law will no doubt rebound
to the interest of the interest of
the University, as it is believed
the regents can more success
fully lease and sell the lands
than the state, under its present
made.
The senate has also passed
to third reading Senator Bow
ser's libel bill which is of
interest to all newspapers.
As passed it provides, in any
suit brought for the publica-
ton Of a libel, in any newspa-
per in this state, the plaintiff
shall recover only actual dam
ages if it shall appear that the
publication was made in good
faith and its falsity was due to
negligence, mistake or misap-
prehension of the facts, and
that in the next regular issue
of said paper after such mistake
or misrepresentation was brought
to the knowledge ofthe publish
ers, whether before or after
suit was brought, a correction
was published in as conspicuous
a manner and place in said news
paper as was the article sued
on as libelous.
That in actions for libel. if
there is no express malice, then
no exemplary or punitive dam
aged shall be awarded, but
such malice may be inferred
from the nature and tone of the
statements claimed to be libel
Gus.
No exemplary or punitive
damages shall be recovered I'M
less the plaintiff shall, before
bringing suit, give notice by
mail or otherwise to the defen-
dent to publish retraction of
the libel, and allow the defend
ant a reasonable time in which
to publish such retraction; and
it provides that the defendant
a reasonable time in which to
publish such retraction; and it
provides that the defendant
may plead in his answer that
the libel was inserted without
malice and without gross nell
gence and that at the earlist
subsequent opportunity he in
serted in such publication a
full apology, and that apology
was printed in as large an edi-
ton and equally conspicuous in
position and style of type and
degree of publicity as was the
insertion of the original.
The fee bill comes up Thurs
day and it is going to have a
hard road to travel. COnserva-
tive men doubt the propriety
of doing away with it. Indeed
such men as Judge A. S. Walk
er, one Of the Oldest judges in
the state, and other emphati
cally declare it will work great
injury to do away with the fee
system. They declare that the
free system is the only proper
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-02-18

~ SINAi III q NOA lI1AI COuhCy pa =
more than the same office in
some other county it is simply
because it does more WORK. 1t
is true that in some of the large
counties the aggregate fees ap-
pear large, but district and
county clerks and sheriff. in
such counties have to employ a
great many clerks and in all of
them do they, at least half of a
year, work late at night. Tn
der a salary system they would
not do this. In this county
your correspondent knows that
in both the district and county
clerks Office night work is done
and everybody knows that three
fourths of a sheriff7s work is at
night. Put sheriffs and con-
stables on q salary what in
centive is there for then to turn
out at night to either hunt up
! violations of law or TO arrest
known violators. Under a sal
airy they wont do it and that is
all there is about it.
This county, Travis, figures
as one Of the large counties. 1t
has two district courts and
nearly all state cases are tried
here. The fees ofthe office prob
ably averages (s5.3OO) a year.
They do not exceed this. The
clerk here has three regular of
flee assistants and about half
Of each year he has four, and
the aggregate salaries paid,
yearly, is S3.1OO leaving the
clerk $4,000. To earn this mon
eY the clerk himself often works
at night and one of his assist
ants is at work almost every
night in the year. The pay of
the clerk in a great measure is
dependent on the amount of
business and the fees paid in.
1t should be remembered too
that in all court business the
fees come out of the litigants
and not the people. 1t should
also be remembered, so those
who know say, that under the
fee system the clerks and sher-
ifs are not slack about collect
ing them. If they were OH sala,
ries would they be as diligent2
1t is safe to say they would not.
A gentlemen. and old officer, in
no way interested now, said
this morning, doing away with
the fee system would work
grave disaster to the state, and
that if the law is passed, the
next Legislature will have to re-
peal it, and then it will take
ten years to recover from the
effects of the two years salary
work. There is a deal of polit-
ical clap trap about this whole
business, merely a sop thrown
to the peoples, and if it be
comes Il law, litigants and the
state will suffer, if the oldest
judges and officers in the state
are to be believed. The legisla-
ture should carefully investigate
the whole business.
The most of this week has
been consumed by the Senate
discussing the age of consent
bill and it went to the table
Friday, subject to call with an
amendment fixing the age iii
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-02-18
ABSOLUTELY gUEE

l6 years. A majority of the
Senate is decidedly in favor OF
the bill with the age at Is, but
the opposition, by tilibustering,
has succeeded to getting the
age down to Is and, strange to
say, should it pass the senate
in this shape, it is not to fail
in the House.
1t will probably astonish
your readers to learn that about
the only objection the opposi-
ton have to the bill is that it
may get some of the dear boys
into a pickle and, along this
line Senator Bailey, in speaking
against the bill said:
Should the amendment just
offered to raise the age of con-
sent to Is years be adopted, it
would be fraught with much
mischief and place in the hands
OF the prOcuresS a fruitful
source of blackmail. Our boys
from 10 to 90 years of age are
yielding to the abductive infu-
.ence of a girl under IS, prompt
ed by the will of a procuress,
would, under the amendment,
sought to be adopted, be guilty
OF the crime of rape and liable
under the law to the severest
punishment that is now meted
out to our worst class of crimi-
mails. No man on the floor of
this senate has Il higher regard
for womankind than myself,
but the stern facts of observa-
ton impel me to say that all
the honesty and purity does
not belong to the female sex.
That there are some dishonest
women as well as corrupt men,
and that all girls under 18
years OF age are not pure, nor
have they always mothers who
are beyond reproach. This
amendment to the bill would
place in-the hands of unscrupu-
lous women an instrument of
blacknail that would more
than counterbalance the good
sought to be accomplished. /
believe in moderation in all
things, and for that reason | am
opposed to the amendment and
in favor of the bill which in
creases the age from II to II
years"
This is the argument. Sen
ator Bailey is a young man and
hasn't had much experience III
this cruel world. The procuress
he pirates about in all cities
works her schemes on the bless
ed men now and the age of
consent at Is or % would not
add one whit to her opportuni
ties. No honorable, true man,
not addicted to the company of
the file de jale" fears the pro
curess. The gist of the argu-
ment against the bill, is, protect
the rakes, libertines and despoil
ers and let the girls go to the
devil. l pointed out in Il former
letter how the age of consent
would interfere with the bust
ness of the disordelly houses,
and the mistresses of such
houses in this city are literally
opposed to the age of consent
being raised at all. The bill
will come up again Monday.
Awarded
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-02
A Turfman's Tale,

A New Jerseyman told me a good
story the other day on one Of our fore
most turfmen, a man whose name is
perhaps printed oftener than that Of
any other connected with racing in
America. A good .many years ago this
turfman, who was not then deep in the
racing business, arrived in Jersey City
with trainload of mustangs from the
plains of Texas. He knew nothing of
the laws Of the state nor Of the ordi-
nances of the city. He knew that he
wanted to sell his mustangs and thought
the best way to do it was to sell them
at auction. Being somewhat gifted in
speech, he determined that he would be
his own auctioneer. The sale started out
we'll. Fair prices were realized. Sud-
denly it was interrupted by policemen,
who demanded view Of our friend
license.
"License?" he said amazed "What
license? I haven't any license Of any
kind"
well, you can't sell horses in this
city without license. You'll have to
come along. No monkey business with
u.s.
Of course he went along, but he was
lucky enough to find at court friend Ga
lawyer), who went bail for him in the
sum of $50. Then the lawyer said:
A license costs $3.50. You are under
bonds. Go ahead and finish your sale,
collect your money and skip out. Give
me $50 to settle the forfeited bond, and
you are $500 ahead of the game"
1t was done accordingly. The turf
man and his friend met in the st. James
hotel lately and laughed ovG the joke.
New York Press.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-02
The Fate Of Mana sahib.

All historians leave in doubt the fate
of Mana SGhib, leader of the Indian
mutiny. He was never seen after the
battle of Singapore. Yet Captain Will
liam Brown Of San Francisco. after 40
years, gives details of the death Of Mana
and the burial of his ashes in the
Ganges.
Brown commanded the Ganges feet
and his vessel, the Benares, was attack
ed by Mana and large force Brown
shot Mana and beat off the sepoys with
a loss of % men. When the battle was
over, he descended to his cabin and was
amazed to find there Mana Sahib dying
and his mistress Iona, both of whom
he knew personally. At the height of
the mutiny this woman had come to
him as an enissary from Mana and Of
fersd him large sum to desert to the
native cause At that time he promised
Mana if the rebel leader fell into his
hands he would give him his freedom,
Or if dead, he would bestow proper fune-
raj honors upon his corpse. Mana now
reminded Brown of this promise and
soon expired.
That night the body was taken to the
shore by Brown and burned. The only
witnesses were Brown servants, Amer
and Iona. When the fire blazed up,
Iona. threw herself upon it and was
burned with the man she loved. That
same night the ashes of Mana were
taken to point where the Gondra meets
the Ganges, and were buried in the holy
waters.
Captain Brown has documents sub
stantiating this story, which was never
made public. The commonly received
impression has been that Mana commit
ted suicide. st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-02

"Well, I'll tell you what you might
do for me.
well, what?'
GO among the Yankees in the
morning before you leave, find out
how many there are. and let me
know. Will your
"Yes;but where'll see you again 2"
ooh, I'll not be far away when you
start for home. I'll join you on the
road"
"All right; I'll do it"
"Good night
Good night"
And off went the wagner on his
way and the patrol on its way. Get
ting back to quarters before daylight,
the men dismounted and were busted
about various matters. They kept
lookout for the wagner, and, sure
enough, soon after sunrise into the
frame house headquarters he walked
with his daughter. He asked wheth-
er he might look about the post, and
he was told there was no objection.
His daughter was inclined to be So
ciable and made herselfvery agreeable
to the men. He introduced himself
and his daughter to the captain (never
dreaming that he was the man he
had conversed with in the woods the
night before, with whom he talked
for time Then he moved about
among the men and was seen to take
particular note of everything he saw,
and seemed to be counting the men.
They let him do as he chose during
his stay of some two hours. At
length he said he must be moving, as
he wanted to get home before night
When his team was ready and he
was about to leave, he was told he
was prisoner aud would have TO re-
main-that his daughter was at liber-
ty to go if she desired, but he and his
team must stay. He looked astonish-
ed, and his daughter burst out cry
ing. He asked why he was made a
prisoner, and then he was reminded
of his bargain of the night before with
the Confederate officer, who was not
Rebel at all, but the very Yankee
who was now talking with him.
Then he was frightened indeed, and
broke down, and began to beg off by
saying that the poor farmer had a
hard time of it between two fires
that he was sure to be illtreated and
plundered and cuffed by the soldiers
of both. armies, and whenever either
army had the upper hand the citizens
had to do the best they could toplease
them. The officer here gave him a
pretty sharp lecture, and told him he
hoped this would be a lesson for him
not to try the role of Rebel spy any
more. The daughter also pleaded
hard for her father and even offered
to remain prisoner in his stead.
The upshot was they were both per-
mitted to go their way in peace. Not
long after. the picket was ordered
away to join an expedition up the
valley, and the post was temporarily
abandoned.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-02
Folding Furniture.


Here is remarkable scheme, being
the entire furniture of a bedroom, so
built that it can be folded into one small
package weighing $50 pounds. 1t can be
set up by any one in a few minutes. 1t
contains no loose screws or intricate
parts which would puzzle one to ar
range. This suit consists Of 3 foot 8
inch wardrobe, 8 foot inch dressing
chest, foot 4 inch washstand, two cane
seat chairs, 2 foot inch ottoman bed
stead on casters, bedding complete,
chamber SERVICE and mosquito curtains
if required. The whole of this extraor-
binary suit, forming the entire furni-
ture of comfortable bedroom, folds in
to itself, forming one package 6 feet by
feet inches, by 2 feet inch, weight
about 400 pounds. No packing case is
required.
The scheme is the work of an English
manufacturer, and for that large class
of people who are on the constant move,
like gypsies, summer tourists or fiat
jewellers, the idea is food for reflection.
-Upholsterer
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-02
ELECTRICITY AND TIE MAILS.
talk of More Extensive Use Of Wires In
the Postal Service.

talk of More Extensive Use of Wires In
the Postal Service.
1t has recently been pointed out that
already the telephone is used, by actual
count, ten times as much as the tele-
graph, the annual figures being put now
at about 70, 600, 900 kilograms and $780,
600, 600 telephone talks. The long dis
lance telephone system is paralleling tie
older telegraph lines all over the coun-
try, and in the cities the average Of use
of the telegraph, owing to rapid transit.
messenger service, special delivery let
tiers, and. above all, the telephone, has
dropped much below one message per
head per year.
A suggestion lately put forward by
Mr.. P. B. Deiany, an inventor and
electrician of high standing, is the sub
ject just now of warm discussion in
electrical circles. Having in mind the
statistics quoted above, Mr.. Delany an
nounces his firm conviction that it is
time to get out of the telegraph its full
working value, and that it ought now
to be used for the carriage of the mails,
not in the physical sense, but literally,
all the Same. Fe believes that 40, 900 or
$4,000 letters of about so words each
between Chicago and New York could
every day be profitably sent over cou-
pie of copper wires at a rate of 10 cents
or Is cents apiece. Thousands Of such
letters now pay - cents in the mail to
insure the saving of half an hour after
a journey of "a hours. whereas, by Mr..
Delany's plan, correspondence between
two such metropolitan centers could
easily be interchanged i'll an hour, and
the documents be delivered in clean
typewriter print.
The plan is based necessarily on "ma-
chine telegraphy, which has been on
trial before, and not gone very far, but
the growth of the great cities and the
undoubted desire for swifter, cheaper
intercommunication of private and pub
lie news give more (plausibility to Mr..
Delany arguments than they have had
hitherto. His idea is to give the public
low priced Geographic mail on the
same lines that Rowland Hill first start
ed his universal postal service, and his
contention is that the function of rail
ways is to handle passengers and freight,
but not anything so intangible as cor
respondence and news.--New York
Post.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-02
The Usefulness of a Jest.

He stood upon the platform Of his
car serene and smiling, when every car
driver and truckman Oh West street was
swearing and cursing. The jam was
tremendous, and the street was packed
from curb to curb. Yet whenever he
spoke it was with some good natured
Jest, and the truck drivers turned out Of
his way and let car 78go by. He hailed
them all with merry badinage, and the
surliest of them grinned from ear to ear
and gave him back all that he sent.
"It's easy" he said to me confiden-
tally. ''When once you get man to
smile, he'll do anything you want him
to do. Did you see that surly chap driv-
ing the beer wagon? kept chatting him
until got him to laughing, andnwhen
a man once lets a smile chase q fr his
face, he's goner. l tell you, my end,
that even down here in West street good
nature will 60 farther in getting your
own way than all the yelling and ours
ing.
And the philosophical car driver
whipped up his horses and told the
charioteer of the wagon in front that no
man could stop things up as he did un-
less he were from Cork. The wagon
turned aside. and the man grinned and
said that he was from Limerick. New
York Herald.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-02

Marion county. Ia, Of which Knox
vile Is the county seat, the home Of the
Long Three Robinson Brothers, the
giants who starred several seasons with
Barnum an the three tallest brothers IN
the world. is also the native county Of
the : Big McKinneys, four mammoth
specimens Of humanity who claim 10 be
the only four brothers liz Iowa whose
combined weight Ii more than 1000
pounds. Only two Of the brothers, Doc
and Jim, now reside in Marion county.
The former Of these weighs 25S pounds
and the latter 240 Frank. the second
largest, weight 267, Is somewhere out
west, and John. the giant Of the four,
weight ESQ, is Chicago policeman.
Not one Of the four is what would be
termed '.fieshy" man. Each Is trim
specimen Of perfect manhood. standing
from 6 feet to 6 feet inches In height
John makes the boast that he can stand
fiat footed and turn 2 back soulefaanlf
any day" and Jim can mash q mans
hand in bis giant grasp, o. can take q
dime and twist it all ont Of shape BE-
tween his thumb and fingers. st. Loui,
Republic
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-02
Going west /?

IL SO, you should have one of the
geographically correct maps of the
United States issued by the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. They
run solid vestibuled, electric-lighted,
steam heated trains between Chicago,
Council Bluffs, Omaha. Milwaukee,
Lacrosse, Winona. St. Paul. and Min
ueapolis, connecting at Omaha with
all lines for all points in Nebraska
Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Neeada
and California At St. Paul with al
lines for all points in Montana, Ore
gon. Washington, and Northwesr
British territory. Write to John R
Pott, district passenger agent, vii
Transport. Pa, for one of the rnap'
and any information desired in refer
ence to rates of fare toAny point west
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-02
One Spoon Enough.

A Boston man travelling through the
south was obliged to stop over in a
small town where there was but one
hotel, at which the accommodations
were hardly to be called elaborate. When
the colored waiter brought his dinner,
the Boston man found that he was to
have roast beef, stewed tomatoes, corn,
peas, potatoes and coffee, the vegetables
served in the usual stone china canoes.
Presently he said to the waiter. dick,
pass the spoons. The waiter rolled his
eyes in genuine amazement. Spoons,
sab What yo' want with the spoons?
There's yo' spoon in yo' corn. San
Francisco Argonaut.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-02
Whence Comes croft2

The origin of Croft itself, even more
than of its sister words, is ''wrop in
mystery 1t is a very old English
term, appearing in the charters or title
deeds of estates as long ago as the reign
of Edgar, where the phrase sat the
croft's head is quoted by DR., Murray,
but it remained long unrecognized in
the literary language. The old English
form, like the modern one, is croft, !"
meaning an inclosed field. In lowland
Scotch it appears generally in the form
craft" which is still employed in
many derivatives, but the only other
Teutonic equivalent in the sister Ian
guages is the Dutch work "kroft, !"
which means ga piece of high and dry
land, pa field on the downs, :" 81 rocky
headland." In the north of England,
according to Ray, the word "croft' i'm
plies neighborhood to house, but in
the south it is applied to any small in
closure, near building or otherwise.
DR.. Murray's English dictionary gives
several uses of croft in early times,
though not for the most part i'll what
can fairly be called literature. "As he
stood in his croft" says legal writer
of the thirteenth century, whose SPELL
ing and grammar mercifully modern
ize. While Piers Plowman writes,
"Birds come into my croft and crop my
wheat" Early in the sixteenth century
Fitzherbert defines curtylage (what-
ever that may be) as ga lytell croft or
court to put in catell for TYNE. - In
the seventeenth century the phrase &C.
ours, All ould tenants shall have a
croft and a meadow" which sounds as
if it came out of crofter commission
report. But it was Milton who first en-
nobled the plebeian word by admitting
it frankly into immortal poetry. The
spirit in ''Comus" says to the elder
brother:
This have learned
Tending my focks hard by L tn hilly crofts
That brow this bottom glade.
-Corpbi11 MaOazina
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-02
Quick Trains for the Atlanta EXPOSE
ton, Over the Southern Railway.

The Southern Railway inaugurated
its winter schedules Sunday, October
6, 1895, and in addition to its reglar
double daily limited trains, put into
effect another limited train known as
the Exposition Flyer, /" leaving New
York at HOO a. m, daily, Philadel-
phia LIZ p. m, Baltimore 3.I5 p. M,
Washington 4. SO p. m. arriving at
Atlanta next day 1920 Al m. central
time, carrying Pullman Keepers and
vestibuled day coaches.
The United States eFast Mali
leaving Washington at aII5 a. m,
with through Pullman sleepers and
day coaches, daily, and the "Vesti
buled Limited, " at 10. So p. M. com
posed of vestibuled sleepers and day
coaches, with dining car service are
continued in service, and arrive al
Atlanta next day at S 20 a. M. ant
5.55 p. M. respectively, central time
The Southern Railway is the only
line operating solid trains from Wash
ington to Atlanta over its own tracks
and the only road entering the Expo
sition Grounds. Time from Wash
Iington only is hours. Low excur
sionrates on saledaily from all coupon
ticket offices. Those sold on Tues
days and Thursdays OF each week
however. are lower than other day
and Limit Of tickets correspondence
shorter Sufficient time is allowed
however, on the lower rate tickets t
ispend week at the Exposition.