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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18

an increase of S2,42S,67S. This in
crease is very frankly explained by the,
statement of the large sum required in!
maintenance of railway and equipment.
The receivers have replaced a large
number of old bridges built many years
ago, with modern steel structures. ca
and and have made oth ere enforcement mr be,
sides putting all equipment in first-class
shape. Isl ~
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18
p,ood poisoning Caused Death.

Bolton, Tex, Nov. 15.-(SpecialJ-A
few DAYS ago Mrs. Susan Bassil re-
ceiyed scratch on her ankle by a grass
burr. Blood poisoning resulted, and
she died from the effects yesterday. she
was about so years of age.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18
steamship Libelled.

Norfolk. Va, Nov. 15.-The schooner
Donna T. Briggs, which has been oe-
tanned here for some three weeks on
suspicion of being engaged IN nn9us,er.
marshal Cross for alleged violations OF
the neutrality laws. s,gan 81
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younr Lady Commits Suicide.

Abilene. Tex, Nov. l5.0(SpeclaLl-
With tbe family of Joe Humphreys, in
w. Mn , Nv took morphine and died. She
was was about 20 years of age and had been
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18
Discussed Money Rents.

Ennis, Tex, Nov. 14.--(Special.)-
Meetings were held at Lott and BardweII
yesterday to discuss the money rent
question, One farmer has been warn
ed that II he continues to demand money
the consequences will be serious.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18
A BIG DEAL.

The Mcdonald Building Sold Again
Yesterday.
Yesterday Mr.. Earnest Ellis. who re-
Gently purchased the Mcdonald building
on West Seventh street, sold 1t to Ut.
Nav of San Antonio for $1,000 in cash
and 500 acres of land located near oan
Antonio and which is valued at $50 an
acre by DR.. May.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18
A CRACK SHOT.
A 13-Year-Old Boy Fired a Gun and
Wounded Four Persons.

Brownsville, Tex, Nov. 15.-(Special.)
Might before last little 13-year-old
boy picked up gun playful and fired
IT. The gun, which was left at the
house by a hunter was loaded with
buckshot. " hen ilm smoke cleared
away, two old women ond Two children
lay on the ground. One of the children
has since died and one of tie old women
Is expected to die at any moment. The
boy is now in jail. o..
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18
Four Years In the Pen.

Galveston, Tex, Nov. 15.-(Special.)-
IN the criminal district court today Jas.
Harney, white man, on two charges
OF burglary, was today given four years
in the penitentiary.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18
Texas Fever Quarantine Raised.

Nashville, Nov. 16.--The quarantine
which has been In force against certain
counties in this state because of Texas
fever among cattle, has been lifted and
shipments can be now made legally from
all parts of this state. a:.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18
,.,.,or for ONCE Seekers.

Washington. Nov. 13.-It is understood
chat tho president has decided to make
no more appointments until the assem-
bling of congress.
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:, >. :. ., :, ,.o. Hammer Thrower Dead.

Cham pion Hammer Thrower Dead
Springfield, Mass. Nov. 15.-John Pur-
cell. the champion heavyweight hammer
thrower, died suddenly at his home ID
Florence yesterday. DE won tne
worlds championship at he Worlds fair
contest
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18
'Acouftted of Murder.

Corsiesna, Tex, Nov. 15.-(Special).
Peyton Trent was today acquitted OF
the charge of numbering W. +. HICKS
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18

The statements of those who have
been cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla prove
the merit of this medicine
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18

DR.. Sicgert's Angostura Bltters Is
known all over the world as the great
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18
TRYING ORDEALs FOR WOMEN.
Mrs. Pinkhan Tells How
men May Avoid Painful
Examinations.

To q modest, sensitive, high
strung young woman, especially
an unmarried woman, there is
no more trying or painful ordeal
than the examinations" which
are now SO common in hospitals
and private practice.
An examination by speculum, or
otherwise, is sometimes q positive
necessity in certain stages OF
many diseases peculiar to women,
so at least it is declared by tn
fession. This would not be the
patients needed their symptoms In
If a young girls blood is wat
pale and waxy looking, her Ill
torpid, digestion poor, her ears an
she is subject to headache, begin a.
system with Lydia e. Pinkham's \
Do not allow her to undergo a pr
Here is letter from a young lac
her name should not be used, but
street number SO that any inquiI
will be received. She says:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-1t affor
words in regard to the merits OF y
to try it after seeing the effects G
new person. l am stenographer
and female weakness in general.
could no longer walk, and the Ii
II was then SO i'll that / was
that I could not hold anything !
would cause my heart to beat so
could hardly stand. I suffered
can go about my work with pleas
Trusting that my words of pr
and be of benefit to womankint
T.. H.. 444 s, East st., Indianap
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WANTED--A hog weighing $50 to 200
pounds. Apply at this Office.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18
TO ERECT A SANITARIUM.

A. site Mt Asheville Selected-Chronic
Disorders to BE Treated.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Nov. ia spe-
cial to the Times from Asheville y; -,
saws: DR.. Swerty Battle and DR.. John
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
Christmas Gifts for Men.

1t is a great relief to note that some
philanthropic writer's throughout the
country are engaged in telling what sort
of Christmas gifts men would like. The
writers are not all successful, and they
reveal frequently the inspiration of wom-
ans ideas, mans innate modesty and self
effacement precluding him from speaking
for himself.
But somebody should speak for him be-
fore another Christmas has elapsed. 1t
is recorded in the seventh chapter of '.The
Autobiography of Pharaoh l." that the
monarch's wife gave him for a Christmas
present necktie which he could not wear
without inviting instructions ia all
Egypt. That's where the Christmas neck
tie joke began, the Christmas cigar joke
following it, when Sir Walter Raleigh
first amazed England by putting tobacco
fumes. The jokes have endured, but the
joke has not-not if the man knows it. He
may have an incorrigible passion for neck
ties, but to have his own wife go ont and
pay out his own money for tie which he
will wear only on dark nights and when
his coat collar is turned up is what he OBJ
iects to. The trouble being. probably,
that woman buying something for man
sees it merely as it looks on the counters,
while the man sees it in it's rela ton to
himself and to the uses to which it must
be put.
What is needed is Wives Information
bureau, where husbands can leave list
of the presents they would find accepta-
BILE, with details concerning size, color
and weight. The wife would simply have
to join the bureaus subscribers, find her
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
MRS. PINKHAM'S VICTORY
Mrs. Sidney Hamlet.
Cured by Lydia e. Pfnkham's Vegetable
Compound.

RED HOUSE, VA.-To Mrs. Pinlzharu:
'sMy heart goes out in sympathy to al
who are suffering with troubles pecul-
lar to the female sex
'Iwou1d like to express my gratitude
for what your Vegetable Compound has
done for me. l have been sufferer
since girlhood; did not then know the
cause Of dreadful sick headaches and
other troubles. I could not take long
walks, lift or carry nything heavy, and
was very nervous.
t!Last summer I was almost an
invalid; could not walk across my
room without pain. sent for our
physician. He pronounced my case a
bad one of Prolapsus Uteri,' conges-
ton and liberation of the womb, and
said I was to lie abed. I was so dis
tressed 10 find myself SO helpless and
useless to my family; I saw your Com
pound advertised and thought would
try it. I took several bottles, and used
the Sanative Wash and Pills as directed,
and now I am as strong as I ever was,
and do all my own housework. I can
walk more than mile without any
inconvenience. Ohl I am truly CRATE
full. I cannot write the good you have
done me. Words are inadequate to
express it. May God bless you for the
good you are doing."-MRs. SIDNEY
HAMLET, Red House, Va.
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The foreign Office at Pekin says that
when the bandits killed the two mis-.
sonaries it ordered the governor oil
Shangtung to arrest the culprits, and
the capture of four of them was effect
ed, but meanwhile, indeed only one
day before, the Germans landed troops
and occupied the forts.
The Germans still occupy Kiao Chau,
a place Of great strategic and COM
mercial importance, and show no dis
position to abandon it, but, on the con-
trary, appear to have seized upon the
murder of the missionaries as pretext
for obtaining and permanently occupy
ing very desirable position upon the
Chinese coast, and SO clear is this de-
termination that China has appealed to
Russia to interfere in her behalf against
Germany. Germany reinforced her
squadron in the Chinese waters on the
heels of this seizure of Kiao Chau bay,
and it is reported that as long ago as
1895 one of our warships on the Chinese
coast was applied to by German ves-
sci for charts of these waters, and par
ticuiarly requested detailed charts of
the harbor of Kiao Chau." The Ger
mans verified these charts, and made
more extended surveys Of the place,
and when "the German naval officers
at that time discussed the probability
of their occupying that port, the murder
of German missionaries was not mem
toned"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24

The state of nelgect into which the
site of the old elm ON the common, in
Boston, has fallen is beginning to
worry old Bostonians who pass the spot
daily on their way to business. After
a gale in February, 1876, brought down
what was left of the old elm, young
elm was started on the site of the old
one, and this tree is now one of the
largest in that part of the common.
Inside the enclosure is a rusty iron
standard bearing two tablets, the lower
one about three times the size of the
upper. The lower tablet is the origin
al one, put up in 1864, and bears the
inscriptions: 'This tree has been stand
ing here for an unknown period. 1t
is believed to have existed before the
settlement of Boston, being fully grown
in 1772, exhibited marks of old age in
1899, and was nearly destroyed by a
storm IN 1882. Protected by an iron
enclosure in 1854" The upper tablet
reads: 'The old elm, destroyed by a
gale February Is, 1876. This elm
planted A. D. 1876" The little en-
closure has an unkempt appearance.
The fence is made of small rough wood
en- posts and two strands of twisted
wire. These posts are keeled over. On
one side the wires have fallen down.
The tablets and standards are covered
with rust.
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france, upon the trees of the extensive
apple orchards. In the cider districts it
is looked upon as a great pest, for. once
established, it draws the sustenance as
long as there is any life in it's host 1t is
succulent when young, but becomes
woody as it grows older. 1t often at
taches itself, too, to the oak, and then is
supposed by the peasants to possess mag
ical power and to bestow wonderful
strength.
The mistletoe does not grow in Ireland
or Scotland or the north of England, and
often there young apple trees with the
queer little plant grated and growing
upon them are sold as curiosity, freak
of nature, to "turn an honest (or dishon-
esD penny"
In olden times the mistletoe was called
All-heal. The tree upon which it grew
was believed to be chosen of God. was
looked upon with veneration and awe.
and the curious little plant was consider
ed an antidote to all diseases. Even at
the present day in Sweden all ailments
are believed to be warded off by wearing
ring made of its wood.
The berries of the mistletoe are of a
creamy white, about the size of small cur
rants, and grow in clusters in the diyis-
are long, ovate, waXy and Of delicate
green, often almost yellow.
Birds are very fond of the berries, and
by them the seeds are carried from place
to place, and thus the plant is propagat-
ed. The berries contain a thick, viscous
fluid; they burst open when ripe, and so
they readily adhere to the trees and
shrubs where they chance to fall. There
they germinate and take root and draw
their nourishment, not from the earth as
other plants do, but from some other
growth. So it is parasite, not self-sup-
porting, but living ON something else, and
when the tree to which it is fastened dies,
then the dependent little thing dies also.
There is an old tradition that asserts
that long, long ago the mist,etoe was !.
big tree, nourished from mother earth Il s
other trees are, and that the cross of our
Saviour was made from the wood; but
after the crucifixion it was fated to be,
not tree, not even shrub, but depen-
dent-nOt even to draw its life direct from
the ground itself, but to live upon some
other plant-doomed to be always para
site
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73, could come in day and a night, and
Uncle Joel could come in ten hours.
think that it would be just lovely 10 see
those four dear old souls, all over 20. to-
gether, and to hear them tell tales of their
childhood and boyhood''
After imposing solemn vows of secrecy
on all of US, Nell ran off to her writing
desk to write letters to grandpa's three
old brothers and to LIS sister Ann. A
week later she met me at the door when
went home to dinner and said gleefully:
'They're all coming, Tom! I've had let
ter@ to-day from every one of themi And
grandpa said at luncheon that he'd rive
good deal to see the boys as he called
them. He wanted to know if I'd go with
him if he went to visit them all in the
spring. could just hug myself for think
ing up the whole scheme"
Each of my great uncles arrived on t,e
day before Christmas, and grandpa's sur-
prise was complete. He showed no sirps
of needing Nells smelling salts, although
he was visibly affected when his aged
brother Henry arrived and they clasDed
hands after separation of twenty years.
you've grown old, Hiram,' uuayered
out Uncle Henry. Seems to me ye look
bout as old as 1 do"
''Oh, guess not, Henry; 1 guess not
said grandpa, triie stiffiy, for he was
sensitive regarding his age
Don't he, boysP said Uncle Henry,
appealing to his two white-haired broth
ers. Il bet could fetch We to the ground
first in rassle, that is if We rassled fair.
which ye didn't used to do when we was
all boys together. Why, I'm hanged if
Hiram don't part his hair, or what he's
got left of it, in the middle yit. 1 reckon
ed you'd git over that when We came to
havih' one foot in the grave and t'other
one no biZness out"
Grandpa flushed and said coldly:
''The combing of ones hair is simply a
matter of individual taste, Henry
Nell hurried Uncle Henry off to show
him his room, and grandpa said to Uncle
Joel:
''You bear your years well. JOEL. One
would hardly guess you to be six years
older than l."
mo. Hiram, they wouldn't One thing.
I'm good deal fieshier n you. I'm kind
o s'prised to see you so kind O all skin
and bone"
Come. now, I cin't quite that. Joel.
i weigh 1897
rs that all; why. Hi, I weigh IT'S
and"
Come. Uncle JOEL want to show you
some of the family portraits in the par
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
Cooking by SoIar Heal.

The various experiments made with
tolar engines by the French in Algeria.
where the sun is never overclouded and
shines with great power, have been at
tended in some instances with marked
success. The best apparatus is stated
to be simple arrangement of boiler
and concave mirror, the steam generated
being condensed in coiled tube sur
rounded by water, this being intended
merely for distilling water. But in
India an inventor has contrived some
machines with which more varied re-
suits are accomplished. One of these,
says the Philadelphia Record, is what
is termed a cooking box, made OF wood
and lined with rejecting mirrors. at
the bottom of the box being a small
copper boiler covered with glass to re-
tain the heat of the rays concentrated
by the mirrors upon the boiler. In
this cont1ivance any sort OF food may
be quickly cooked, the result being
stew or boil if the steam is retained, or
II allowed to escape it is bake. The
heat with this device may be aug
mented indefinitely by increasing the
diameter of the box.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
Thrice HannY.

He was a little ragged waif living in
village of southern Kentucky. A stran-
ger to actual comfort, it is not to be sup
posed that he was very familiar with the
pleasures of life. One Christmas eve he
was standing before a shop window with
his lean little face pressed against the
pane, devouring with hungry eyes the
beautiful display within.
There was a lady in the shop, deeply
engaged in purchasing gifts for her small
nieces and nephews. She saw the waif at
the window-ragged. half-clad, and with
out doubt half-starved as well.
Prudence" said she, in speaking of the
matter afterward, might have suggested
food and clothes. But another idea had
taken possession of me. / determined
then and there that that boy should know
the blessedness of happy childhood for one
Christmas at all events"
On the impulse she called him in. Toys,
wagon, an iron horse with a flying driv-
er madly sounding a fire alarm, a drum
with gilded sticks, a tin horn, pack of
irecrackers, things which his poverty
blinded eyes had never before looked upon
in the light of real possession, were put
INTO his hands.
There was kind of awe in his solemn.
earnest eyes, said the lady. las though
the joy of possession had stricken him
dumb.
1T was the day after Christmas that /
came upon him again, hanging about the
streets with that same old look of a beg
gar about him. That is, in all but his
eyes; they, l think, were never quite the
same again. They fairly shone when he
lifted them to my face in recognition.
Good morning, joe, said l. What have
you done with your toys|
Imagine my surprise when he said, I
give 'em to Jack Parker, the colored boy,
over yonder to Scruff Town
What" said 1, you have given them
all away? All your beautiful toys? He
was silent moment, and then his ragged
little face glowed as he replied:
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AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS.

We are asserting in the courts our right to the
exclusive Use of the word "CASTORIA" :" and
"PIrCHER'S 5 CASrORIA,' ~ as our Trade Mark
I, DR.. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyanns, Massachusetts,
was the originator of " PITCHERS ASTORIA" +"
the same that has borne and does now bear the
fac-simile signature of CHAS. II. FLETCHER on
every wrapper. This is the original - PITCHERS
CASTORIA'' which has been used i'll the homes
of the mothers of America for over thirty years
Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that it is
Tie Kind yom haze aEavays bought, and has the
signature of CHAS H FLETCHER OIL the
wrapper. No one has authority from me to use
my name except The centaur Company of which
Cllas. H. Fletcher is President
March s, 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER, MD.
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To think months and seasons are fading
fast
See, whirled IN midair are white snowhakes
descending!
Each flake seems spirit dropped down
from above,
AS though for the New Year to earth they
come, lending
A promise of purity. blessing and love.
The tall trumpet creeper. whose scarlet
tinged flowers
Last summer made gay its beautiful dress.
Stood yesterday dropping and leafless for
hours.
Now, snowclad. it CLEANS in renewed love
Nnesss
How they pile, how they gather, the SHOWS
in their whitenesS
Led onward by silence. who moves with
out sound,
Their feet shod in crystal and sparkling in
They drape frosted venture DER tree. bush
and ground.
y . thought with the summer all beauty was
dying:
We thought with the old year all joy flown
away,
But spirits of snow to our shorn world came
and the New Year has blessings perhaps
Tor each day
Hark! Wild bells are ringing! Yes. joy bells
Out welcomes or elee to another New Year
May each moment be crowded with laughter
and singing,
And during its stay may no sorrow draw
near.
King on, New Year bells! Let thy ringing
Ring al Ills away. but ring loves warmth
withinl
Though the old year just died, and we saw
it with sadness,
Yet happy may prove the New Year, we
beginf
-ChriStian TntelIfgencer
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abouthe knee.
the child of the wonderful
in
of
bEsful ohp
figures stealing down the ereakng Eyes with
of
theirs and mother has to take the similar
his home n dom
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day she evolved this idea and laid it on
the family altar at discussion we We're
having regarding the approaching Christ
mas festivities:
"I've just thought out the loveliest
scheme for grandpa's enjoyment. You
know that he hasn't seen one of mis-
brothers for long time, and it's twenty
years since he saw our Uncle Henry.
Now, can't we get up a great family re-
union as a surprise for grandpa? Uncle
Henry could come here in day."
Hes nearly S0,'' said.
Il know, but he is stronger than most
men of 70. Uncle Harvey, who is only
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24

and the berries are ripe and the fOllage
is in all its glory, its best dress, in the
following December, when it is imported
and used to decorate our homes and add
to the holiday cheer.
This strange little plant is a native of
most of the tropical parts of Europe.
Half a dozen varieties grow in this coun-
try, but as they are not marked by the
same peculiarities as their foreign rela-
tives, they are called by different name,
though they all belong to the same family.
Some varieties have very snowy flowers.
The modest, though widely known, lit
tie shrub we call the mistletoe grows
mostly in Normandy, a border portion Of
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
Christmas Charity.

Christmas SHOWS are on the moor,
Sing, sweet Robini
And the Christmas star burns gold,
Sweet Robin, sing!
Hungry birds are at the door,
Sing, sweet Robin!
All their feathers puffed with cold,
Sweet Robin, sing!
There's babe sleeps in the stall,
Sing, sweet Robin!
With the grass for blanket warm,
Sweet Robin. sing!
Him the beasts have given their all,
Sing, sweet Robin!
Sheltering him from winter storm,
Sweet Robin, sing!
Ope the door and call them in,
Sing, sweet Robin,
Newborn babe and starving birds,
Sweet Robin, sing!
And all children cold and thin,
Sing, sweet Robin!
To the best our house affords,
Sweet Robin, sing,
London Sketch,
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made of this crisp, brown cake, or GIN
gerbread. can be bought in different sizes
and at all prices. These sweet creatures
are often called s'sweethearts" C'vrijers'
we say in Dutch), and the girls receive a
man." the boys woman" remem-
Der quite well what fun it used to be to
hear IT, servant come in with: IF you
please, ma'am, here is Miss Annie's
sweetheart'-and hand a gingerbread
man to my mother
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l event which Christmas possesses for humanity the
- indeed the of all other sink ngnfcan
observed with
all the
of
il a
S the of
and
result of the expenditure of few dollars in es and tnket
from day to and the unheroi
multiplied
with