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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-03
- Uses in Farming.

the garden In the home
farmer ought to be so
nm home without a garden
lty; and yet 1t Is the fact
farms there is nothing
lame OF garden.
Is lived under such cir
II drive away rather than
I'D the best Of the young
to the farm.
vigorous born amidst such
fget away from them as
bssible, disguised with the
rming known to them, con-
not quitting anything wor-
Of home.
standard Of living is be-
and farmers are Lore and
the better ways. The les
he surface is being put in
ver before; and some there
bnd there. who realize thDt,
part Of gardening apart.
all. not much difference be-
3 and gardening and that
hnt lessons In farming are
from gard sning. Indeed 1t
ning clear 10 a Few who are
advanced positions in farm
erden should be The test and
ice for the farm. fnd so, In
n farming. have lis bounda-
much enlarged.
s country. for most II the
the older States certainly
Fssarily entering the stage
rming; and that means that
pust know. II he would sur
his own farm ty expert
species OF service that the
enriched carien can be
to great purpose.
POW and then the land on d
Hli the same. Mostly It Is.
It is OF that which mostly
Pw write. after the gener-
kstered the difficulties al FIRST
pc exceptional conditions will
disappeared. So that gener-
ermer knows his garden he
n.
welcome more than women
fval Of the time WIN the
fease to be an afterthought
Forthy Of the name Of good
q rule even today the gar
With thus on the farm. II
n fpr-not made a part Of
.arm programme. Maybe It
On time; maybe not. The
s,xoige II Importance more
u 90 they importuns and
LIT u made.
xtoQs stage u. feached.
Is NJ Foaeonab)y Givon
~ ellesvet y deaninats
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q stats q ueOrsia. county q Fulton.

- x.srN ~ uvVilMs SVuuV - ussS1s
Samuel NJ, lnman Of Fulton county,
Georgia: Walker p. lnmxn OF Fulton couta-
". Georgia; Hugh +. InmAn Of Fulton
county. Georgia, and william M. Read Of
Harris county. Texas, have agreed 70 form
a limited Partnership. and do certify under
their respective hands and seals a. follows.
to-wit.
First. Tho name and firm under which
the partnership u to he conducted = and
shall bc "inman 4 Read"
Second. Tho general nature Of the busi-
ness intended to DO conducted IL tho buying
aud selling Of cotton, comprising, storing
and handling tho same, and Houston,
Texas, the principal place OF business.
Third. Samuel M. 1nman and william
NJ. Read are tho general partners, and
walker p. human and Hugh T. lnnan are
the special partners.
Samuel NJ Inman. Hugh T. InmAn and
Walker r. Inmsn reside In Atlanta, Fulton
sides In Houston, Harris county. Tcxas.
Fourth. Walker r. lnman has contrib
uted one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars OF capital TO the common stock. Hugh
T. Inman has In like manner contributed
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars cnp-
ital to the common stock.
Firth. The period at which the part
nership Is to commence Is the frat day
OF September. eighteen hundred and ninety
seven. and the period at which II is to ter
inmate viii be first day OF September In
tho year nineteen hundred.
Witness our hands and seals this 4th
day Of August, 1897.
Samuel NJ tnman. (Seal,)
walker r. Inman. tSeal)
Hugh T.. Inman. tSeai.)
William NJ. Read. tSoal.)
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WHEN you need undertaking goods. in
spect j. l.. Kopf's complete line, fine
hcarses and carriages; low prices ana
prompt service; 1oli Prairie avenue;
phone $751; 1921
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE
A few choice building lots on Main
street. between Tuam and Elgin, on the
new pavement. The very best and cheap
n wanted. Also handsome small tracts
very close TO the city,.
George l.. Porter.
l0-7 So7l5 Main Street.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

having paid three yearly premiums on
lie insiiianc to New York State com
panies their policies now standing for
feited or surrendered, can recover pre-
milms or redeem. For particulars en-
close stump Address r.. X. Ellis, room
No. /, French building. San Antonio.
sroraa
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J. T.. PAGAN & CO.. real estate ana
loans. i009,. Congress avenue. upstairs
We handle real estate on commission,
buy and sell property for others, OK
change lands for goods. lend money on
city real estate. farms and ranches. We
represent loan companies Also place
money for individuals. We buy vendors
lien notes, take up mechanic liens and
extend time to suit purchasers.
We have for sale or trade grocery
store IN Houston doing a business OF
$4,000 per day, part cash. balance In
land 1914
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DEPARTMENT of Agriculture. Insur-
ance. Statistics and History, Austin.
,raxaa gantap,her o. 1897


ance, Statistics and History, Austin.
Texas, September o.. 1871
Notice Is hereby given that whereas.
information In the hands of this depart
ment fully satisfies the department that
the Magdeburg Ere Insurance Company
of Magdeburg, Germany, has Violated
the provisions of chapter 135 OF the Gem
eral Laws passed at the regular session
OF the Twanty-:lfth legislature. known
as senate bill No 292, by writing policy
o: insurance urcn property situate In
tthis State through other than a iegu-.
iarly commissioned and licensed local
agent Of said company,
Now. therefore. |, jefferson johnson.
Commissioner Of Insurance OF the State
OF Texas, by virtue of authority vested
in mo by section 4, OF chapter 125, Cen
erai Laws 1897. and by article so9Gu of
the Revised Civil Statutes OF Texas, do
hereby revoke, cancel and anDui the
certificate OF authority granted to sad
company on the 24th day OF March, 1897.
said revocation of authority to do busi-
ness in this State subject to section 4,
OF chapter 1876. hercinbcfore named.
In witness whereof. ! hereunto sign
my name aud affix the Impress 0f my
official seal. this ed day of September.
1897
U4.S) Jefferson Johnson.
Commissioner of Insurance.
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FULL. LINE ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES
Engines, boilers, elevators. dynamos.
motors. fans, fixtures, etc; fully equip
ped repair shop. The Bardor- Sheets
Electrical Construction company. 1909
Texas avenue. IL
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FOR SALE Cheap. large residence OF
boarding house. containing IN all ~
rooms: barn. COW sheds and lots two
large cisterrs, hydrant water all over
the place, good garden aud orchard; nnc
locality for hotel tho most beautiful
flower yard in Gonzales: close TO bust
ness center; For price and terms. write
Texas
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

STOP THAT I.iaAK--2S cents ana up
Sanitary Plumbing Co.. =. II. Martin
n.nnager: phone AS. 21,
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state OF Georgia. County OF Fulton.

Sfate OF GoOrgla, County OF FUIton.
Before the undersigned. w. d. Ellis. Jr.,
OF said State and county. notary public
duly appointed. qualified and commissioned
to administer oathe. to attest deeds and
take Acknowledgement thereof. personally
appeared Samuel NJ. inman. Walker T. In
man, Hugh T. lnman and William M.
Read. who are each known to me person
ally and known to mo so DO tho persons
they represent Themselves to be, and they
and each OF them acknowledge before mo
that they and each OF them signed and
executed for the purposes therein contained
the foregoing certificate OF and as 20 the
formation OF tho limited partnership of
1nman Il Read. In Witness whereof said
notary herounto sets his hand and affixcs
his official seal this August 4. 1897.
Samuel NJ. Inman,
Walker T.. lnman,
Hugh T. Inman.
William Nj. Read.
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FOR SALE OR TRADE-~A l7-room hotel
property, embracing numerous outhud'
ings, three acres garden and orchards,
all in good condition, In railroad town
OF about 1900 people, Northeast Texas;
only hotel In town; bargain. Box 453.
HoYcfoN
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FOR SALE, exchanged or rented, Wheel
or 4 Wilson lntest improved sowing
machines; best Is the cheapest Call or
write o. A. Hommersand. 6lb Travis N. 3
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FOR SALE OR ExCJTIANGEr-.Fo horses.
buggy, wagon light Brahmas or Cochin
chickens, will trade Toulouse Geese.
Rouen and Peloin Ducks. Black Minor
cas-, 8. s. Hamburgs, Brown Leghorns,
Barred Rock and other varieties. r. NJ.
Hyndshaw, Sandy Point, Texas.
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EXAMINE our new lists of city and coun-
try improved and unimproved property,
for sale or exchange. for the newest
~ r. Sale az ;n,nrn"ed iian,a}lsns to
cash buyers. and now have customers
for places worth from $4,000 70 slc0,ooo,
= Our rental list comprises all kinds of
desirable city property and is revised
daily: correspondence solicited; phone
G73. Norfieet q Cooley, Hutchins House.
Houston Texas, II
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WANTED-Blds to build a house near
Thompson's siding. Address n. A. Nc
Kee Veiasco, Texas. z
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SEVERAL large tracts of land, suitable
for colonization purposes, for sale or on
change 1850 acres In Brazoria county
at "a per acre If taken right away. M-
MEN & Filings, Perry block. 3
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Notary Public, Fulton County. Georgia.


(Seal)
State OF Texas. County OF Harris.
In person before me, notary public In
and for the county of Harris and State Of
Texas, came William M. Read, who Is per-
sonally known to me. and he being first
duly and lawfully sworn. did depose and
say ON oath that he Is one Of the general
partners OF the limited partnership OF In.
man n Read, and Samuel NJ. Inman is tn,
other partner. That Walker p. Inman and
Hugh Il. Imam are tho special partners.
That Walker y. lnmhn and Hugh 7. In
man AZ special partners have each con-
tributed to tho common stock one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, the sums
specified In their certificate Of the forma-
tion Of the limited partnership of Imam
Read, and that said sums 30 contributed
have been actually and in good faith by
them paid In cash.
William NJ. Read.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
third day OF September. 1897.
James A. Graud,
Notary Public, Harris County. Texas.
tSeai(
Filed for record September 3. 1897 at
$3.50 o'clock p. m. Tho Houston Post 10
hereby designated as tho paper in which
the within notice will be published Cor six
weeks st ID. II. Dupree,
Clerk County Court Harris County,
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W.ANTED-'ro exchange n t,ne high grade
lady's bicycle. as good as new. for a
or address r. q. Deyoe Nf Harrisburg
road Houston 2
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Flour farms in Denton, Rockwell and
Hunt counties for sale or exchange for
merchandise: $50 acres IN cultivation; 1914
acres pasture. w. ID. Sowell, Farmers
Vile. Texas
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-28

For time all went we'll Then spirals of white and yellow smoke curled out hefe and there through the earthen crust of the pit. and the entire surface gradually became so heated that it was
 not easy 10 hold one's hand upon it. Just as I was congratulating myself upon the success of my experiment more than half the desirable steam like smoke changed to blue, and the next minute tiny. bright red tongue of flame made it's appearance through q crack.
 It is q decidedly serious matter to grown-up charcoal burners when such a thing as that occurs. The flames must be put out and the vent in the crust must be repaired as soon as pos sible. I have seen two or three men work a full hour in a sort of frenzy on big pit under such circumstances, though the frenzy always had 10 be tempered with caution. A full-erown coal pit may be 12 or 15 feet high and perhaps 100 feet in circumference. and breaks in the ernst of such pile can be repaired only by climbing up its Iope and applying water and shoyelfuls of earth. There were traditions in the vi- einity of my earliest home that more than one brave, hard-working burner had lost his life while trying to seal up a break by sinking through the crust into the incandescent mass below.
 With us, however, there was no dan ger; we only had 10 step around in rather lively fashion for a few mo- ments, stuffing the crack with straw ard covering it with earth; and that was part of the fun. After that first break we had no more trouble till the whole crust began 10 settle by reason of the shrinkage of the pile beneath as 1t burned down. Then half dozen breaks appeared at once, and we all had to work like beavers for q few minutes to preserve the product. And all day long we had to watch the draught holes at the bottom, opening them quickly sometimes when if looked as if our fire were smetbered and closing them quite as suddenly when we feared the burn ing was going on so fast as 10 be likely to result in flame. Just before sun down we opened the pit. to find it's in terior a mass of brightly-glowing coals that famed mp quickly at the contact of the outside air. But we donsed the pile with wafer instanter, and this saved the coal for us. And I may say. in passing. that the success of this burning increased my personal popu- larity among the boys of the neighbor. hood immensely.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-28

When the country W'Gs young and wood was plenty many charcoal burn CTS used long straight lengths of wood for pit fuel. but nowadays only re fuse wood, such as otherwise useless knots and crooked sticks, form the bulk of the pit wood used
 Big pits usually yield from TOO to 1 ,000 bushels of coal, which sells for about IS cents bushel on the average, mak- ing the money return from each pit range from a little more than $1o0 to $15o. It takes several men to tend to the burning of full-sized pit. and they work in day and night shifts, one set relieving it's predecessor as they re- tire, for vigilance all through the 24 hours is the price of good product In addition to the charcoal made in each pit of large size, a thick, tarry sub stance always accumulates at the bot tom, and sometimes this is commer- eially utilized. It consists of acetic acid, ereosote, carbonic oxide and other by products of slow combustion.
 Charcoal is used for many purposes other than kindling coal fires. It is of especial value as non-conductor of heat, and in the form of powder is placed be- tween the outer and inner walls of re frigeratorslto keep the ice from melting as long as possible. Charcoal, too, is often used as disinfectant. for it is highly absorbent and will take up it's own bulk of certain gases. It is also used in filters, for which it's absorbent quality makes it valuable, and its use in sticks by artists is well known.
 The charcoal used in making black gunpowder is not obtained from the or dinary charcoal pit. Willow is the wood best suited to this purpose, When such charcoal is to be produced, carefully se- lected pieces of wood are sealed up in air-tight cylinders, which are then sub mitted 10 just the right degree of heat to transform the contents from wood to coal.
 If any boy reader of this article should go to making charcoal for him. self, he must be careful not to inhale the gas that arises from the pit. It is deadly to the last degree, ;and death might result from getting too close to the product before the fire has been eNtinguished.
 Good charcoal is 65 per cent. carbon. From 20 to % per cent. only of the wood remains as coal after the burning. the rest being driven off in the form of gas.
 The way to get secret out of man IS by pretending not to want to know.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-28
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Some "Reminiscences of United
 States Senator Platt.
sis Early Friendship with Gen. Tracy As n Singer and Editor-Gil- roXfs Reward-Nevy YorIx's
 Woman suRragists.
ICopyrlght. 1g971


 THERE are some New Workers who
 prophecy that Senator Platt's ca reer as political leader will be found to have ended when Tammany won out in this years municipal victory. But those most familiar with political his tory and the personality of Mir. Platt declare that he is certain to be a fig ure among New York republicans as long as his health holds out. Others wonder how Gen. Tracy feels toward the man who induced him to become a candidate. These may rest assured that the bands of friendship between the general and the senator are altogether too strong to be ruptured by one po- litieal defeat
 They are both natives of Owego, the courthouse village of Tioga county, and they have been much like Damon and Pythias in their devotion to each other ever since their salad days. There was d time in their early youth, however, when Platt was mixing drugs with mortar and pestle and Tracy was be- ginning his career as lawyer with the ambitious purpose of winning the dis trict attorneyship of the county-that they looked somewhat askance at each other. In those days they were. both great beaux. Tioga county was never the home of many very wealthy fam flies, but 40 years ago there was a de- cidedly exclusive circle within it's boundaries. This circle naturally cen- tered in owego; and as young Mir. Platt" and ..young Mr. Tracy" besides being the scions of prominent country families, were both good looking, good dressers, and good dancers, they natur- ally became leaders of the local social factions
 Their rivalry grew less and less, how ever, as they began to get along in politics.
 PIatt, Singer and Editor.
 Platt's earliest ambitions were liter ary, and when, early in the ifties, aft CT q brief experience iii the west, where he at first thought of growing
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-28

majority of all the votes to be cast had been recorded as .ayes" by tne clerk Suddenly some one took note of the bills impending passage, and then there was a. stampede among those, not really favoring woman's suffrage to get under cover by changing their votes. Mrs. Blake and the writer stood not far apart on the floor of the assembly chamber that day; and the latter is ready to give his bond that nobody ever uttered more stinging, con temptuous series of comments on the conduct and general character of men, individually and collectively, than flowed in a resistless torrent from the lips of Mrs. Blake. When you come to consider the situation, she was hardly to be blamed for speaking her mind.
 Mrs. Blake is still handsome wom- an, though her hair has long been sonwy and time has engraved many lines in her once smooth and velvety cheeks. She is versatile woman, too. As writer she could easily have made mark for herself had she chosen, lit erature instead of fighting for suffrage as 8 vocation, and for years she has been contributor to such newspapers and periodicals as her work is suitable to. Curiously enough, she likes to write jokes in dialogue form better than any thing else, and the writer has had the pleasure of perusing productions from her pen that would have done no dis credit either to Tom Mason, of Life, or the lamented Philip II. Welch, the orig inator of that form of newspaper hu- nor.
 She has occasionally. though not often, consented to write in reminiscent vein. A volume containing such stories of her experiences with men and wom- en of note as she sometimes tells her friends would surely afford rare treat to the readers of this generation.
 OSBORN SPENCER.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-28
THE MAKING OF CHARCOAL.
This Is tho Season of tho Year It
 Is Done for Fun.
Description of Pit and How to Buiid and Barn one-some of the Thines to Bc Care
 ful Of.
fcopyrIght. ls97.l


 THIS is the time to burn charcoal for
 fun. Of course it will burn just as we'll at any other season of the year, but there is no other time when itseems 10 fit so perfectly into the general scheme of things as during the Indian summer, with it's sharp. crisp nights and sunny days.
 When l was q small boy I lived. in charcoal producing region, and used often to watch the men building and burning the pits. I sometimes won dered in those days that anyone, any where. could be induced 10 pay for what could be produced so easily and simply as charcoal. When I became a little older 1 removed with my fathers family 10 q part of the country where there were no charcoal pits-where the boys actually thought it was dug from mines, like anthracite. Their ignorance on this important point amazed me, and l tol6 them better at once with |. great affeetation of superiority. Perhaps I lorded it over them n little too mueh at all events they could not be made to believe me without proof, and l chose to prove my words by burning charcoal before their eyes.
 1t takes week, always. and some times two or three, to burn n pit that Is big enough to be worth while in a business way, but my pit was small enough to be built and burned between sun and sun. I had as helpers two boys of the neighborhood, who, while not quite ready to accept my state ments, were rather inclined to believe them and mors than willing to help me make them good
 We used short lengths of stove wood for fuel-two good-sized armfuls. We built the pitt is more mound than
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-28

a pit, il point of faet-in my fathers vegetable garden. from which the last of the beets and tnrpiPs had been re- moved only the day before.
 The first thing to do was to smooth off a circular place on which to pile the fuel. This I called the pit floor" Then we drove stake in the center of this floor and piled the sticks of stove wood about the stake. standing them on end in such way that they formed a pyramid. Next we covered the pyra- mid with straw, and after that we GOV cred the whole with earth.
 Men who burn charcoal as a business often put on a layer of dead leaves in- stead of straw before covering the pile with earth; the object in either case is 10 prevent the earth from settling too closely down over the wood, as it would then be practically impossible to burn the pit at all We took great care. in covering the pit over. 10 leave a vent at the top and also draft holes on each side at the bottom. At the very last we put in a lot of light kindiugs-pa- per and shavings-at the top. One of the cuts accompanying this article shows exactly how the pit would have looked had it been split down through the center.
 The pile was then ready for the match, but we did not lighti until we had brought a bucket or two of water; for, as l remember it. water is some times quite as essential as fire fo tho successful production of charcoal. As soon as we had got good blaze started in the center we flied the top vent with wet straw and covered the hole com pletely over with earth. taking care, however, not to pack it too tightly. as this would prevent free burning and spoil the whole scheme
 But although our pit had to burn freely, it was quite necessary that it should burn slowly and without flame. In other words. charcoal pit should always smolder and never blaze. When wood or any other substance burns with blaze it's complete de- struction. in the ordinary sense of the term, follows. the only residue being ashes. Wood is sometimes reduced to ashes. indeed, when it is allowed only to smolder. It is the charcoal burners art to prevent this. and I felt highly important as I tried to remember the signs by which experienced workmen regulate their task so as to maintain just the proper sort of combination in their pits.