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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14

than ten, nor more than fifty dollars for
each offense, and every day of such vloln-
ton shall be considered a separate Of
Tense.
Sec II. The sum of ten thousand dol
lars is hereby appropriated Tor so nUch
thereof as may be necessary out OF my
funds in the state treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the purpose of paying
the costs incurred by the commission IN
the preparation of said series of text
books, and from his appropriation each
member of the commission is to rec i've
the sum of one thousand dollars rs COM
penSatiOn for the extra duties imposed
by this act.
Sec. II. The school book commission
appointed by this act shall make The
next legislature full report of their ac-
tons, together with the financial state
ment as to expenditure of money appI,p-
priated, and any recommendations they
may deem pertinent and upon the reCep-
tiOn of such report by the next legisla-
ture they shall be relieved from further
duty under this act, and the commission
disbanded.
Sec. 10 After the disarmament of the
present commission, it shall be the duty
of the state superintendent of public in
structiOn to furnish the estimates for all
NuitIOho VI lHt NdIlUuS bUOhS III TIE sc
ries, after the first edition. and to carry
out the provisions of this act as far as
not provided to be done by other officers.
Sec. IA. The printing board shall be
and authorized when the time
arrives, to make payment for printing OF
the first edition of the uniform series of
text books, to draw upon the public school
1und Tor the amount necessary to make
such payments, provided that sepa-
rate account shall be raised by the state
treasury showing the amounts drawn
from the school fund for this purpose
and all sums received by the state treas.
ury in payment for books sold shall be-
credited to said account until the public
school fund shall have been reinburs 4
in full.
Sec. 10. All laws or parts of avs f.
conflict with this act are hereby repeal
Sec. lG. This act shall take effect
rom and after its passage.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14

that they required more active and imme-
date attention to realize from them.
Senator Steele was the only speaker op-
posing the bill, basing his argument main
ly on the ground that it was not desir-
able departure from the states general
policy for managing public lands:
Senator Sheriff. boldly contended that
some departure from that policy was
needed in the interests of the University
as well as of the people concerned in its
success as a state institution. 1t was time
to have more attention given to doing
some good with these lands instead of
of consequence being realized from them
for any purpose.
The bill passed with but one dissenting
vote, that of Senator Steele.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14
THE HAYWARD TRIAL.
The Argument for the Prosecution Was
An Awful Tale.

All AWFUL lale.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Feb 12,--In thn
hayward murder trial the state has pre-
serted an lis testimony and expects To-
ne ne completely thrOugn by nhuh Il morr.yy
This afternoon the defense will uresent
IT'S evidence, and then for the firsf time
Ihee public will know what the line of fhe
defense will be. e - ''''
p MI han speech was an awful tale
IL seemed more improbable than apv NJ
me dramatic writings of the most seDs1-
belief 1iiio'' 'e1 "iiu
Sitting, there stolidly, unmoved, the
ney for the prosecution, in omen acc, ,S
tlcn, present the foundation for Iay,Yr tLa
CRIME at the door of her first born
IN mat crowd, not too finely strDpc
not 100 tenderly constituted, there ma M
tremor of horror A crowd whi,b MA
laughed gleefully at proposition 10 inoI.
OH Woman's head with an elevator w0s
transferred to disgust at the proposition
3 0 me sacrlhclng one son on the ALTAR Of
family preference.
Durlng the day several life insurance
agents testified to conversations Win
Harry Hayward had with them in regard
TO the issuance of policies.
When Gilbert told how he had met
Harry IN JeWelry store and had asked
Harry why he did not let him write q
polIcy, spoken of some time before, Harry
had told him that he did not want any
insurance and then told him that he was
ABOUT TO nave policy assigned to him
:, Following up the talk Harry asked him
II companies paid in case of murder. Ho
wanted to know if a company would pay
II person was burned in building and
the remains were so charred thai thcv
could not be recognized. The agent in
formed him that as rule the companies
would require Identification, although
there have been cases of hotel fires where
the companies had paid when the per
sons were known to have been in the
building. This closed the testimony Tor
the day, which was practically All the
important testimony for the state, and
paints the history of one of the blacklist
crimes-if the states story is not broken
by the defense-in the history Of the
world.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14

an, me following gentlemen have tbo
thanks of all for having introduced 'm mo
ollls. Hon. Il. S. Smith. speaker. Cav nv
son Cooke, Darroch, Dashiell, Davis
GADG LINCOLN, Huddleston, MartindoIn
MGcNell; Nix, Seago, Tarver, Whitacre
VI all those who have tried TO save
thelr country Mr.. Charles J. Stubbs In q
L 5nG honor of having introduced the most
T 9ILls, his number being placed at a.
~, i ms Is not to be taken as his stand on
the age of consent, however. VII
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14
THE HALLER-DUFF CONTEST.

THE HALLER-DUFF CONTEST.
The House as a whole entered into the
discussion of the Haller-Duff contest
.ase yesterday morning. The question
5 the adoption of the majority or minori-
y report. The former recommends that
duff be allowed to keep his seat, and the
after recommends that Halter (negro)
re seated, having 80 votes majority.
lutte discussion was had on the matter
yesterday, pending which, adjournment
Tor the day was had.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14
MORE INVESTIGATIONS WANTED.

Representatives Rhodes of Van Zandt
yesterday introduced a resolution in the
House providing for an investigation of
Representative Armistead on general
principles. This resolution was very
properly voted out of existence at once.
1t was simply case of Populist mud
singing, and while Representative Armis-
tead yesterday morning asked that the
be made, the House very
promptly voted the resolution down.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14
A DISTINCTION IN SCHOOL
TRUSTEES.

The House yesterday morning passed
bill providing for the election of different
school trustees for white and colored
schools.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14

NO chlcanery or dubious methods foI
Grated. Perfection throughout all The W.
req processes is why Dr. Prices Cream
Baking maintains supremacy,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14
IN THE LOBBY.
BOWSER LIBEL BILL PASSES TO
ENDORSEMENT IN THE SEN
ATE.
THE REGENTS

OF the State University Are to Have
Charge of the University Lands
In the Future-The Haller-Duh
Contest Case CONSIDERED.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14

As to the proposition that the legislature
has no legal right to bounce these judges,
the supporters of the move say that the
Offices were created by law and not by
the constitution and are, therefore, sub
icct to the action of the legislature, be
that what it may. That to bounce II
judge in no way lays the state liable for
II remuneration for damages occasioned
by not letting him serve out the term
tor which he was elected. They argue
further that the state should be redis-
tricted judicially every 10 years as it is
congressionally. That the people de-
mand it and that it should be done and
done Immediately.
In view of these arguments pro and
con it is highly probable that very in
teresting debate will ensue in both
branches of the legislature unless the
whole matter is npped in the bud by the
calling of constitutional convention.
Now that the issue is fairly on many of
the senator's favor nipping it in the bud
by the calling of the convention. In
truth an effort was about to be made in
the senate Saturday to call up the resolu-
ton looking to Il constitutional conven-
ton, but that movement was forestalled
by the calling up of this rediStrictng
question. 1t is thought by many that the
by the calling up of this redistricting
question is being made just ut the pres
cnt time with no other view on earth
than to force the legislature to call a
constitutional conventions; and if that is
the case the movement will be highly
successful Judging from the present
status of affairs.
If the matter is not speedily settled by
the calling of constitutional convention
there promises to be high old times up in
the state house for many weeks With
Governor Culbcrson and n formidable
array of followers in either house on the
one side and an equally determined lot
of legislators and judicial lobby on the
other there is apt to be much fur pull
ing. 1t is safe to predict that should the
legislature take upon itself the problem
of solving this redistrctinG question the
judicial courts of the states will be al
most depopulatcd while the Hobbies of
the capitol viii he crowded with one of
the strongest and most formidable lob
bics known in the history Of Texas legis-
lation.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14

ton now makes no question. The most
thoughtful of our people have this fact
continually in observation, and legisla-
ton has followed legislation in the vari-
Gus advanced centers of civilization, be-
ginning with the British parliament in
1924. One state after another has fol-
lowed the beautiful example, and the
prevention of cruelty has become one of
the tests of that civilization"
Quite a number of people all over the
state are interested in the passage of
this law and every indication points
to the fact that the legislature will act
favorably on the bill.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14

real estate, shall be listed as other per-
sonal property and real estate.
The bill has been favOrably reported by
the committee.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14

Those favoling the movement contend
that redstricting is necessary and it is
to the pccuniary interest Of the state.
That many of the more thinly settled dis
tricts of the state should be consolidated
and that such consolidation would not in
any way work hardship on the judges.
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-01-03
clEoPATRA's NEEDLE.
aetting the obelisk Aboard Ship Pretty
Piece of Engineering.

aetting the Gbeiisk Aboard Ship Pretty
Piece of Engineering.
zone of the pleasantest recolleotiona
have to look back Oh, :" said Adam
Johnson, is the fact that was one OF
the party that helped TO run up the
American colors over Cleopatra's needle
when it was being taken down to be
carried to New York. Our vessel was
out in the Mediterranean with a rowing
commission, and we were at Alexandris
at the time the obelisk was being NOV.
sd. The big stone had been presented by
the Egyptian government to this coun.
try, but the people were wild about hav-
ing it moved. We had to place guard
around the men who were working on
the shaft, and even then there was al,
most riot.
But that was one Of the prettiest
pieces of engineering work I have ever
seen. The engineers who were moving
our shaft had a couple of big wooden
cases built that fitted around the needle
like the pieces Of wood around the lead
In pencil. There were a couple of pro-
jectiles on each side of the castings just
on the center of gravity in the shaft,
like the trunnions on cannon. Under
these they put lifting jacks and just
picked that immense stone off its
pedestal. swung it around horizontal
and then lowered it as gently as could
be on aS.ong sliding way, with cannon
balls under it for rollers. They had q
SQUARE hoie cut in the stern of the
steamship and slid it into the hull
through that and replaced the sheathina
outside.
Under the shaft in the inside Of the
pedestal there were a lot Of bronze toadS
and ornaments and the Lord knows what
not that the Masons claimed were placed
there by some of their progenitors cons
ago, I don't know anything about that.
shouyh, and you can leave it or take il.
IS yea choose.
'eThe British were not half so slick
with the obelisk they carried over tc
England. They cased it up in big
sheet iron arrangement like boiler, riy
eted it in and foated the whole thing
off through a trench dug in the Sane
down to the water. Then they rugged
jury sails on it and towed it over tc
England, but they lost three or foul
men off it before they got it in port ane
had all sorts of time generally.
"a couple of years afterward 1 saw
the British obelisk set up on the cas-
bank of the Thames, and when came
home the first thing I went to see was
ours in Central park. '-Washingtor
post
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-01-03
LyoomiDg's Early Judiciary.

''Fair-Play-Men" was the title given
TO part of Lycoming county, Pa,
now densely populated and dotted with
prosperous towns and cities. The pro-
prietary government, with a view to
protecting the Indians from intrusion.
had forbidden the survey and settle
ment of the region, but some hard treat
ed and hard handed Scotch Irish pio,
neers found their way into the forbid.
den territory, aud being outside the i'm
mediate jurisdiction of any properly
constituted tribunal they chose three of
their number to settle disputes and call.
ed them fair play men, The decisions
of this tribunal, especially as to bound
aries, we're enforced by the whole COM
munity and came in time even to be re-
spected by the courts. When a chief
Justice of Pennsylvania asked one of the
first pioneers what were the features of
the fair play code, the pioneer is re-
ported to have answered that since his
honor's court had found its way into
the rgion fair play had fed and law
had taken its place Philadelphia
Press.
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-01-03
HOW TO STUDY PROPERLY
Books should Be Wen Chosen and Read

ASookS should BE Well Chosen and Read
Carefully, Not Devoured.
Study is like a dinner. The viands
must be well chosen and eaten slowly,
not deyoured, then well turned over in
the mental stomach for awhile until
with ease and comfort they are perfect
" digested and furnish nutriment to
the brain. Most students study without
thought, which is like eating without
digesting Others read merely as a fad
and soon FORCES all they may have
learned.
The most satisfactory method Of study
is the digestive. It is the thorough one
the one that gives strength to the
brain. Take the subject you are study
ing. Read few lines or a few pages,
as the case may be, then put the book
down and think on what you have read.
Turn it about in your mind from every
standpoint Do not accept it Immediate
~. Argue for and against it in your
mind. In other words, masticate it.
You need not be at your leisure to do
this Do it in your walks, in your idle
moments, at any time When you have
satisfied yourself ON the subject, 90 on
with q little more in the same way. In
q short time you will find yourself
more a thorough student than if You
had read all at sitting. The best edu-
Gated man in the end is The man who
learns slowly, but surely. New York
Advertiser.
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-01-03
Venetian Mirrors.

The beauty and almost absolute peg
lection characterizing the mirrors pro
duced in the manufactures of Venice
Ere mainly due, it is said, to the pecul-
lar solution applied to the surface Pre-
liminary to this application the glass Is
thoroughly cleaned with wet whiting,
then washed with distilled water and
prepared for the silver with a sensitiz-
ing solution CO til2, which is well rinsea
off Immediately before its removal to
the silvering table, and the latter be-
ing raised to the proper temperature
the glass is laid and the silvering solu.
ton at once poured over it before the
heat of the table has time to dry any
part of the surface of the glass. The So
luton used is prepared as follows: Ia
one-half itel of distilled water 100
grains of nitrate of silver are dissolved,
to this being added So grains of liquid
ammonia of 0.SS specific gravity. The
mixture is filtered and made up to eight
liters with distilled water, and z $40
grams Of tartaric acid dissolved in 80
grams OF water are mixed with the so.
luton. About $40 liters are poured
over the glass meter to be silvered, the
metal Immediately commencing to de.
posit on the glass, which is maintained
at about 104 degrees F., and in little
more than half hour continuous cat
ing of silvo, is formed. After careful
wiping with channels the surface is
treated a second time with solutions
like the first, but containing double
quantity OF tartaric aeid.-New York
Snn
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-01-03
The Oldest GrapeYine.

The oldest grapevine in the country
was indeed interesting. One growing
near this, which was known to be more
than 80 years old, died finally of good
old age and was purchased and trans
ported in its entirety to the Chicago
fair. This one is AZ to 30 years of ago
and hale and hearty yet. At the base It
Is SO inches in circumference It grows
straight up for about feet. then d.
vides into six branches, and at THU
point is feet N circumference. At 6
height of perhaps z feet it spreads itself
In all directions over an immense arbol
covering space by actual measurement
of rs by sc feet. 1t bears in one season
$500 pounds of the purple mission
graee, of which no use is made except
as it is eaten and given away by it,
owner to any one who will take it
Santa Barbara Cor. Troy Times
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-01-03
IAN ATTRACTIONS PARTICLE"
Interesting Disclosures Made at the Cen
vention of the British Association.

Interesting Disclosures Made at the Cen
vention of the British Association.
The annual disclosure of the latest
discoveries in various branches of science
being made at the convention of tho
British association, Oxford, is an inter
esting budget. Lord Salisbury's address
at the opening of the conference at
tracts widespread attention. He pro
claimed himself scientific agnostic,
but the most remarkable feature of his
paper was his outlining of the marvela
of unsolved problems to which modern
science is now devoting itself He paid
sympathetic tribute to Darwin S great
work, but refused to acknowledge the
jellyfsh as his ancestor on any evidence
yet offered. He attacked Weissmann' s
theory of natural selection in evolution
and affirmed that the present day has
brought return to the belief that crea-
tive design was supreme.
1t has been in these meetings Of the
several divisions of the convention that
the latest discoveries and theoies have
been presented. A year ago the biolo-
gists, who lad believed for years that
they were ON the point of solving the
mystery of life, acknowledged them
selves baf1ed. Now Professor Schaefer.
president of the section of physiology.
announces the discovery in each tiny
animal uvll containing life of what he
terms IAN attraction particle. 1t should
be remembered that when the biologists
discovered the cell principle of life they
Thought it impossible to subdivide theee
Infinitely small atoms, but the micro
scope has shown the existence of this
small particle in each cell, which is
itself structure sui generis, having .
definite existence and definite function
~ its own 1t is almost as minute an
object as it is possible to conceive. In
a cell which is magnified 1000 diane
tiers the central particle appears merely
Of the size of pin point. Yet this al
most infinitely small object exerts an
extraordinary influence over the whole
cell, which may be many thousand times
its size. 1t initiates and directs those
processes which result in the multipli-
cation of cells, and indirectly therefore
it is concerned in directing the general
growth Of the individual and ultimate.
" the propagation of species. 1t is
shown, then, that the principle OF life
is contained in a particle 1000 times
smaller than the smallest object which
the best microscopes of few years ag,
were able to perceive, and the --latest
name for the unsolved mystery OF life
is an attraction patricia 49, New YoEs
Suns London LGtt@
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-01-03
TIE oRocus.

In sheltered corners and shady piacaa
The wasting SHOWS of the winter LIE.
But there is a token of coming roses
In the tender pink of the sunset sky.
Above the dusk OF the windy forest
The young March moon is silvery cold.
Come, love, and lean on the gate beside EaA,
And viii tell you a legend old.
a jealous wizard with whitened tresses
Beheld maiden with yellow lair,
And seized her form in his frosty fingers,
And bore her far to his icy lair.
he bound her fast in sleep enchanted,
And hid her deep in q grave of gloom,
Till over the purple seas came sailing
A slender prince, with a pale green plume.
From the withered grass and earth aboVs
her
He brushed the wreaths of the snow aside
aud slew the wizard. whose name was Win.
ter,
And she rose from the tomb to be his brids.
LACK! There she stands by the broken $rellik
Where budding sprays of the ivy cling,
1'or the captive maid xas-.-.se golden crocus,
Her gallant lover, the prince, is Springl
-Minna Irving in Worthington's Magazine
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-01-03
FIRsT TRANSATLANTIC STEAMER
She Was an American Vessel Using Bot
Sails and Steam.

She Was an American Vessel Using Both
Sails and Steam.
The first steamer to cross the Atlantic
was an American vessel called the Sa-
vannah. She was steamship, and used
both sails and steam, and was built by
Croker &c Pickett at Corlear's Hook in
New York city. The present belief is
that she was built by a party of capital.
lists who intended to sell her to some
foreign monarch. She was commanded
by Captain Moses Rogers and was
ship rugged vessel of nearly 400 TONS
She had horizontal engine, which was
placed between her decks, and her boil.
ers were IN the lower hold.
1t is generally admitted that the Sa-
vannah sailed from New York in 1919,
going to Savannah, her namesake, in
seven days, four of which she used
steam. There she was chartered by the
city corporation to go to Charleston to
take President Monroe, who was then
travelling through the states on a pleas
ure excursion. He failed to accept the
invitation, and the boat returned to Sa-
vannah. After remaining at this port
for some days and taking out parties
of curiosity as we'll as pleasure seekers
the Savannah sailed for Liverpool
reaching it after voyage of Is days
seven of which were made under steam.
The arrival of the strange looking yes.
sci, with huge clouds of smoke ascend
ing from her decks and obscuring her rig
ging, caused quite commotion wien
she enters5 st. Georges channel off
the city of Cork, and the commander OF
the British man-of-war lying in the
harbor thought she was a vessel in dis.
tress and sent two cutters to board her
Everything found all right, however,
the Savannah was allowed to proceed
on her way, and thousands of people
greeted her as she steamed up the Mer'
sey to Liverpool with the American
flag flying at her head. The Savannah
then made trip to Copenhagen, Cron-
stadt and st. Petersburg and then re-
turned to this country, where she was
relieved of her steam apparatus and
for many years ran as packet between
New York and Savannah, finally going
ashore and breaking up on Long Island
The Savannah was, Of course, side
wheeler, and as it was impossible to
carry sufficient supply of fuel in her
to keep up steam on long voyage her
wheels were removed during good sail.
ing weather and canvas substituted.
The king of Sweden wanted to buy the
boat when it was abroad, but the deal
went through. Now, those are the facts
about the first steamship that ever cross
ed the Atlantic ocean. to.