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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-07

Cuban question the president Is vague ard
dlffuse. but studiously correct. Cuban mat
tiers, however. are unimportant as cofn
pared with the grave issues OF domestic
affairs. The big battle of the season will
be fought on the ground OF home politics
and finance
The editorial specially praises President
McKinIey's treatment Of the currency ques-
ton.
The Times says: Its tone of pltronizing
toIe rance will make the message not wholly
agreeable to Spain. Probably the president
calculates that II he can satisfy the tingoes
for a time with eloquent denunciations and
warnings he will ind 1t easier to pursue
moderate policy. Regarding ms
currency reoonendations 1t seems
too probable that Mr.. Mckinley
still clings TO the notion that some-
thing may he done for silver. SO long as he
follows that will o. the-wisp he can hardly
be expected TO attempt any thorough going
fe'-Hm Of the currency
The STANDARD says: 1.-THE best that can
be said Of the message Is that II Is abso-
lutely exciting. As a distinguished poll-
tician the PRECEDENT labored under grave
difficulties and 1t IS no reproach to ms
skill that he has failed to surmount them. p"
"If Mr. Mckinley represents anything
so far. ii is the new tariff, which is con-
fessedly n palpable failure. Tho whole
currency plrn hangs upon the condition of
an exchequer surplus but when will tfat
happy day arrive?
Foreign affairs are treated temre.,tery.
with regard to Cuba the president Las
taken care TO keep within the limits Of
International couity and gocd feeling
with reference to his declaration that
should America be compelled to intervene,
it will only be because the necessity for
such action Will be so clear as to command
the support Of the civilized world"
The Standard exclaims; THE Spanish
ministry can sleep in peace.
This Daily News says the message IS
charteriaed by desire to displeise no
body Referring TO Secretary Cages cur
ren,y plan tie editorial asserts that Mr..
Cleveland's similar plan never found favor
with congress.
As to the Cuban question. the Daily
News thinks the message rings true and
premises fair trial Of SPANS new plans.
mcre than which the president could not
b5 expected to do.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-07
Christinns tn ConytntIoI

Fort Worth. Texas, Decernbsr !
Christian lectureShlp convenaca
here tonight. and was particulars
preachers OF the Christian derorl
from all over the State. IT yz
convention of the kind ever held
ana during its session important pA1|
reIiglous subjects will be read t5l
mad year IN preparations. Fhe y
lhss wore opened tonight by Az
exercises, followed by n serfncn ri
Randolph Clark. The convention n
t!nue four days.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-07

treasury department asks for slo0.o for
the erection Of a courthouse. penitentiary,
etc. at Sitka, Alaska.
The total sum asked for lighthouses, bea-
cons etc, is f2,20s.310. The whole amount
OF the rivers and harbors estimates is s4s,-
T27150 as against sl9.516,il2, the present
appropriation.
tmated at s6,0iS, H. The secretary OF the
Interior asks for $4,000 to aid in the pro-
t,ction o. timber on public lands and 49,
70 for the care. etc. Of forest reserves.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-07
In Colonel wynue,s Intera

Fort Worth, Texas, December y
county democratic executive coa1
has been called to meet Dsc.sls
steps are to be taken looking % BIZ
tha candidacy CT Hon. r. NJ. WynEsiI
Glty for governor of Texas. Foe insj
Cosonei Wynno are daily in nHs1
words OF encouragement, assdrits ~
their fidelity to him in the rare. IN !
ocracy in this part of the STATE wi
strong tight for him. W. Z
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-07
Kaufman News Briefs.

kaufman. Texas. December 81
has been marketed at this place I,
date l},af7 baies OF cotton. This III
siderable more than sold here last
beside there is sim a great ndmhsfl
ing their Gotten.
Tax Collector John W. Carter ~
!eo.ed $S'SIS5 in taxes for the past
ter.
Cards are out announcing the MI
OF Miss Bert d. Erwin and W. 7. u
tie Baptist church on the Sth d
month.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-07
Crosby. Harris County. Teas.

Crosby, Harris County. Teas, r1
IA heavy rain fell here yes'",,
last night, while furious iori.
tnlnss rattle in a very lively maui.
ahout ! a. m. it began siHetns III
possible that much damage has III
10 truck farming and fruit trees,
stock, owing to their good cona,'s n
only slightly injured. The grouna Y
oughly soaked and farm work sSi|
Tor season. Today is the coloes
season, the thermometer at 5 a "
ing at 30 above.
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insncctiny Fort wor,,,..

fort Worth Texas, December s-ns,o
gates from North and West Texas 10 ~
tsHand Lodge. Ancient. Free ana Accnrtn,
Masons, which conveaes At Houston ~ ~
morrow, stepped over here toi,y
II we slie of"re the Grand Ia i~a ~
me Me ,os 9rder for ne loeation q o. s or ~
cost 100000 Tho local loire u, ,II'ns Is 70
citizens. has offered 10 ,ionate o.. sn s. aii
81 ground and a cash bonus Of sscol 'ef g
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-07
sheriff spnrIss Dead.

Belton, Texas. December s,--Sas]
A. Sparks died at his home in the y
len miles south of Bolton, yesiefs
WIN he buried this morning at ms
ourylng grounds, near his home +
Masonic lodge of this place. NJ
was 81 years Old and had llyea 4
county s-nce ohiidhood.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-07

NacoGdoches, Texas, Decembef Y
night at late hour John CleyinsA
shot WIN Flanagan. colored. e, y
ranged upward IN his head, f1
Nelson, physicians of this piar.
summoned and pronounced the w
riOus.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-07

Gonzales, Texas. December n
wants one gray mare about Year, "a
hands high, heavy set. in good W
very gentle. branded Spanish prans
shoulder Address any informalns
M Glover sheriff. Gonzales counH'
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-07

81. Louis. December s.-The -, rt
and Clothing re7npany, enc 81 ~ =, -
-, n snehe stores in the city fled chat.
"a -. m...sase on Its entire stock Of shoes
ana clothing this afternoon 10 sscnr. ~
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-07
Cnttnn MIL closed.

Woonsocslet, X. l., Dece'nss J
Kay Cotton company's mill heie~
down for an indefinite period, IVA
of the shutdown is the unsaIis-.aels
d.G9n of the market. The mills ~
SEQ hands.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-07

Those wishing to get rid OF rhsu1
should try bottle OF Elmer z
PRESCRIPTION No. 2s5l. e. r. NJ
Houston. Texas, sole agent.
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WILL FIX THE TRAMPS.
The Southern Pacific Company to
VestibuIe It's Baggage Cars.

(F'rom the San Francisco Chronicle
The Southern Pacific Company has
begun the construction of six vestibuled
baggage and express cars at the Sac
ramento shops. Speaking of the mat
ter yesterday, General Manager Krutt-
schnitt said that the company has de-
ciGed to improve all of it's mainline
passenger equipment by vestibuling the
platforms, after the manner in which
the Pullman SleeperS are now being
built. All baggage and express cars
to be hereafter built will be provided
with yeStibuled platforms, and it is in
tended to remodel all of the old cars
used on the main line as soon as the
work can be economically done. This
Improvement is expected to solve the
problem of keeping the great American
tourist who has violent antipathy to
paying railroad fares, from roosting on
the front platform of the baggage cars,
which practice, according to General
Menager Kruttschnitt, is the source of
great worry to all of the company's
passenger crews.
The company is also building at it's
Sacramento shops thirty double hopper
bottom coal cars of a capacity of thirty
tons each, equipped with automatic
couplers, air brakes and all modern
improvements. They are to be used
In the coal traffic between Diaz, Mexi-
co. and on the line of the Mexican
International Railroad, and Yuma, A.
T.
In addition to this unusual activity
in the matter of building new equip
ment the company is busily engaged in
improving the roadbed of the Coast di-
vision. From Valencia street south to
San Bruno the roadbed is to be heavily
ballasted with gravel. and below San
Bruno as far as Palo Alto the ballast
will be re-enforced with more gravel.
This has been found necessary on ac-
count of the dust resulting from the
coast line. When the work now in
fast trains and increasing traffic on the
hand is finished the coast line to San
Jose will be one of the finest pieces
of roadbed belonging to the company
in California.
The record-union., 1897-07-21

The duty is incumbent upon all calm
minds to sound a note of warning
against mad rush to the Yukon mining
regions. Unquestionably new and very
rich placers have been discovered far up
to the north beneath the verge of the
arctic circle That some extremely
lucky claims have been located and
worked is unquestionable. But the his
tory of ali mining discovery proves that
ten men go in where one makes hit. In
tions. The Yukon flows through a bleak
and inhospitable country. Its placer
fields are TO be reached only after very
long and very perilous journey. Some
600 miles of this trip must be made over
snow and ice, and across high attitudes
with dogs and sledges to convey provis-
ions and heavy clothing if the Juneau
route the shorter, is taken. The river
route means a journey up the Yukon in
light draught steamer some 1000 miles.
These boats are now so overcrowded
y
provision supplies, and this is a factor
that makes the venture all the more
hazardous. Strong in body, sound in
condition, a pocket supplied with not
ing and a years provision supply, it is
the average of opinion of these who have
been in TO the new mines, are requisite
to insure fair chances against suffering
and failure It is the sum of the best
testimony that only the hardy should at
tempt the Juneau, or overland route,
and not then until next spring. When
ever one goes if the craze is irresistible,
he should take provisions, since no mat
ter how much money he has it will prove
valueless if there is not sufficient food to
country affords no supply Of animal
food sufficient for a large body of people.
The Transportation companies agree
that it will be impossible to get food
enough in to support the lives of those
now at the mines, if there should be
poured in a very large addition of human
beings. The temperate season is very
brief, not exceeding three months, and
when that comes on vegetable growth is
| exceedingly rapid, but it has not yet
been engaged in as a supply business.
If the country is half as rich as it is
reported to be there will be time enough
to go to the Yukon next spring, when
the winter is over which begins early in
September. about the time when the ad-
venturers who set out now may hope to
reach Dawson City.
The record-union., 1897-07-21

The celebrity with which the House put
through the reports of the conference
committee on the tariff bill was praise
worthy. The debate was not long, nor
was it of the gag order. But it was well
known that the bill as reported would
pass; that all argument on its provis-
ions had been made that could be eff
fective, and that nothing further could
be advanced to secure any modification
of the measure, that would be wise. The
opposition had full opportunity to air
its views, and appears to have been
content with brevity and protest. The
bill goes now to the Senate for con-
currence, and perhaps before this is put
into print, will have been approved by
the upper house, and have been trans
mitted to the President. The tariff bill
Being thus out of the way and the rev.
erue question at last put to rest, now
for Hawaii.
The record-union., 1897-07-21
An Anniversary Prison Dinner.

The other day a dinner was given in
johannesburg by two of the Reformers
to those who were associated in their
humiliation of last year. The menu
was headed by a photo of the Judge
who presided over the trial; the SER
viettes We're enclosed in handouts. and,
as a prelude to the usual dainties, the
mealie-meal porridge, cooked in water,
as served out in prison, was served
round the band playing a solemn fun
eral march. After that the banquet
proceeded in most satisfactory style.
This anniversary is intended to be kept
yearly, till the roles are reyersed.-Cape
Times.
The record-union., 1897-07-21

They have a Chinese play on Ameri-
can boards now, and it is promised to
Sacramento presently, in which we
life and law on the inside and
afforded some examples of the estima-
ton in which white devils are held
by the mild-eyed Asiatic and how the
far more effective play might be work
ed out just now on the basis of the
farce going on under the Imperial
Russian ruler, and the other
that low comedy circus scene the Turk
would not be dull by any means, but
a genuine clown, with wit and merry
making at the expense of the ring
master Car, and the performers Will
lam, Victoria, and the rest of them. 1t
is farce, and nothing less, this play
of the Kings and Princes over the Gre
clan settlement, the evacuation of
Thessaly, and the retreat of Persian
troops from Ottoman territory When
the ring master cracks his whip and
bids the clown skip out of Thessaly,
the lively "sick man" saucily tells the
bedizened knight of the lash to take
his own advice and get his enormous
feet off of Turkish soil. When the good
old lady of the right tight little isle
bids the Sultan behave and let the peo-
pie go, the rascally clown asks about
the Egyptians in bondage, whose SER
vice is wholly due to me-" And so it
goes around the ring, with the Aus
trian, Italian and German trick horses
prancing the Persian monkey climb
ing the tent pole, the Grecian pony
tagging vearily at the ring side and
the flushed clown having all the dip
lomatic fun in the world with the lot
of them Some day another Gilbert
and Sullivan brace of satirists will take
up this theme, and make it wonder
fully ludicrous upon the comic opera
stage or another Mr.. Powers will dra-
matize the proceedings, and give us
amusing glimpses into the heart of the
masquerading, and posing, and see
saving, and diplomatic darkroom Sc
ances that are the order of the day
over the water.
The record-union., 1897-07-21

who first united the Rumanians in pol
itics (this in 1S94); William Hermann,
the present political leader; DR.. Seegel-
stein, who is proposed for Alderman of
this district. and David Sternlicht-
New York Tribune
The record-union., 1897-07-21
They Stay Single.

sAs rule" said Henry Peck, ''bach-
elors are a despicable Glass;
But why?"
Because they profit by the misfor-
tunes of their idiotic brothers who mar
y."-Philadelphia North American.
The record-union., 1897-07-21

consumption, will give us better living
results, less Of human suffering and
more of human enjoyment, then why
not
The record-union., 1897-07-21

Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Fair Wednesday,
except fog in the morning along the coast;
probably cooler in the interior: westerly
winds on the coast: variable winds inland.
The record-union., 1897-07-21

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CONCEIVABLE.

San Bernardino Times Index: 1t is
entirely conceivable that Abraham Lin
coin did say, as asserted, that the
Southern planters should be paid for
their slaves. He was a pre- e-eminently
just man, and he understood very well
that the Southerners had received the
Endorsement of the Federal Government
in their ownership of black humanity
If he said it, he said a just enough
thing, however different the final deci-
sion born of warfare may have been.
The record-union., 1897-07-21
A DISTINCT LOSS.
EXIT THE AIR SHIP.


Sutter County Farmer: The cele-
brated air ship which has been attract
ing much attention at the Schillig farm
in West Sutter was boxed up and load
ed on the steamer last week for ship
ment to San Francisco. What plans
the inventors have for the future of
the ship were not disclosed, but it looks
as though this county had lost the
honor of the first flight of the aerial
craft.
A STUDIOUS, HARD WORKER
Marysville Democrat: Colonel Crock
er. though surrounded by the good
things that an ample fortune can OBJ
tain, was studious, hard worker, who
believed in doing we'll any task as
signed him. Without the least inten-
ton of dispara cement to others, IT is
due to the deceased TO say that he was
a leader in the councils of the men
OF the great corporation, one who al
ways was appealed to when there were
differences TO settle. Plain and unas-
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-07-02

1t was Kinelake who uttered one Of
the neatcst Of mots on the peculiar char
Rcter Of the London Times He had lit.
tie fondneSs for that journal spite Of
personal friendships which might have
been expected to soften his view Of the
question. The paper was still 10 him
sort Of lugg irresistible and fate.
ful. On seeing m announcement Of the
pew Gators marriage he exclaimed
Heavens That brings The Times int
re lat i0us win humanity.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-07-02
RALrnntzlnr Infants.

A Characteristic instance was given at
q dinner patty lately Of the present day
tendency for children to patroni2e their
parents. At preparatory school the
children were told 10 write down wha.
they thought to be the object Of educa-
tion. One small boy wrote, THE object
of education Is to be- able TO talk for
your father and mother when you 20
abroad. and another boy, doubtless re
nembering the oft repeated reflection NJ
home, when he had fallen into some
scrape, that "the holidays would soon
be over aud he would be safely back al
school, wrote, with unconscious cyEl.
cism, 1.-THE OBJECT Of education is to get
you out Of your parents way. Gen
flew oman.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-07-02

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he old complaint has invariably come
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-07-02
Lessons ROY schoorpoy..

There l. no question that our fore.
fathers supposed that benefit might be
derived from causing schOolhoys 10 be
spectators Of the hanging Of criminals.
Sir Walter Scott had borne testimony
to this custom being not unknown in
Scotland IN "The Heart Of Midlothian"
Mr. Saddletree Is represented as saying ::
promised To ask "a half play day L. the
schulz, so that thc BURNS might gang and see
the hanging, wLick Gamma hUi have "A pleasing
effect on their young minds, seeing there Is no
knowing what they may come 10 themselves
Chapter %
Sir Walter would not, we may as
sumo. have written the above had he
DOT known that such things had actual
ly taken place. Notes and Queries
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-07-02

One Of perhaps many little considered
ways in which the forests of the coun-
try are being eaten up is in supplying
timber for railway timber work. There
are 1000 miles OF trestle structure in
the United States, according 10 an esti-
mate by the Forestry Division. This
trestle work has TO be replaced entirely
every nine years. on an average. and
every year timber amounting 10 goo,
10000 feet, board measure is used fol-
this purpose. Nearly all the timber in
cut from the largest and finest trees
The annual expenditure on this work in
estimated at about $7.OO0O0O.