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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-03
Ad ARLlN.
rho county site OF rails county,

! !
one OF tho banner agricultural
counties OF Central Texas, II In located on
tho Waco and Northwestern railroad.
! twenty. six miles southeast OF Waco. in Y
| beautiful valley Ave miles east Of the
Brazos river
II Is a live and progressive town. with a
population OF about 1000 inhabitants. has
line court house which cost about $780,.
900; has number of commodioug well
furnished and well bnit church houses,
largo public school buildings with eff
Client corps Of teachers for both white aud
colored schools; "A first class cotton seed oil
mill, which brushes annually about 1900
ions Of cotton seed. running nearly eight
months each year afiording means for
fattening several thousand beeves yearly.
The banking facilities are excellent. fur
nisting ample capital for all deserving en-
torprlses. Cotton receipts from 10000 10
$1,000 bales annually, which With tbe
number OF cars OF hay and grain shipped,
makes this an important shipping point.
There arc a number OF nieo hotels and
many beautiful and expensive residences
in the town. There Is tine lake Just one-
hair mile north of town. having an area
q fifteen or twenty acres that is quite a
pleasure resort, Tho noted falls of the
Iirazos, from which the county derives
It's name, are about six miles south OF
town.
There is fine macadsmized road Lead
ing across the Brazos bottom afIofding
a fine driveway al all seasons OF the year.
The greatest possession Marlin has,
however, is her wonderful hot artesian
Well. which Is perhaps the deepest we'll
on this continent, being 1850 feet deep,
has temperature OF 147 degrees Fahren-
heit and comes rushing from its subter-
ranean cayerDs with force sufficient 10
throw n great stream OF water over the
tops OF our tailest buildings, showing
pressure under steam gauge az l4)
pounds per square inch. The analysis OF
this water shows II To be very valuable.
II. being almost Identical with that OF the
great mineral waters Of Carlsbad, Ger
many.
Charles II. Broslett. Mayor.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-03
II TSNILI.E.

/ Lavaca county Is in tho front. I,c-
crossing and improving every day
Our new court house will soon be finished
at cost of about $50. 900. II will be one
OF the best in West Texas. Land T.. this
county Is from S. to $40. owing 10 loca, ~
and improvements. Next fall the pecrle
Will poll 5000 votes for governor. Tho
health is very good. The voting population
is about equally divided between Anorl-
cans. Germans and Bohemians. ono. hi d
of for the negroes. Farmers are .aai ing
small money raising 5-cent cotton, hut
looking forward for a better day.
j. W. Rees b.pycr.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-03
CEGUIM.

Situated on the Guadalupe river, on
the Southern Pacific railroad, lies
/ Seguin, ono OF the most prosperous towns
in tho broad State. seated like queen
] in very garden OF agricultural wealth,
mud full 20 the brlm with splendid oom-
munity both socially and commercially.
Tho growth OF Seguin the last ave years
| has been the wonder of this part OF tho
State. Good schools, good roads. good
farms and liberality toward foreign capital
have made her u city today OF 1000 souls.
Scgun boasts OF an oil mill OF 100 tons
daily capacity aud the most complete in
tho State. 1t IL the property OF the Nation
al OIL company, TO whom the citizens gave
fourteen acres OF valuable land and oash
bonus, The water powers on the Guada-
lupe river arc being utilized for tho water
works systedn, electric Hight plant. flour
ing and grist mills and there Is world
of unused aud easily developed power htlll
lying at the doors of tho city. 'rha de-
yelopment Of the natural powers viii
prove some energetic investors fortune
Rome day, The Seguin Street Railway
company does good business, both freight
and passenger Every mercantile house Is
doing well and tho two banks. tho First
National and the hlg private banking firm
OF u. Nolte d Sons, are good standing
OF the growth OF tile town.
Scguln IA schools and churches is we'll
10 TO, III not ahead, of most OF tho towns
Of her size The public high school, which
employees seven teachers. Private schools |
IN letters and the arts arc here in abund- |
incc. Handsome churches OF nearly every |
denomination grace tho town aud the |
Catholic church has substantial convent |
here. Tho Southern Pacific does a trcmon- |
ious business here, the largest baiween |
san Antonio and Houston. There are sew |
nal large gins In the city, and nearly |
1000 bales are glnned therein Annually.
The ScguiG club recently organized. has
yoons, gymnasium. billiard and |
ara rooms. banquet rooms. library and |
eception rooms and is a handsome addi- |
ion to the social feature Of a community.
j. ZOrn, Mayor.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-03
RRYAN.

- One hundred miles north OF Houston
on the Houston and Texas Central
laiiroad, in one of the richest valleys of
'ne great State of Texas, lies Bryan. the
county seat of Brazos county Ii Is located
MIDWAY between the Brazos and Navas 81 4
nNe's ana receives Its support from the
,leh agricultural lands surrounding it.
~ Tue way of trade territory Bryan Is
,ely fortunate. there being no railroads
nor competing markets cast of il within
a radius of fifty miles. She therefore
n nu the trade and gets the cotton fiom
al mat section of country embracing three
% o ,our counties, shipping annually aDoat
S Svuvo bales OF cotton. The merchants cid
business men of Bryan are thoroughly h.,-
, ana iull OF energy, push and tilsi-
h.ss enterprise and there is not 4, ~,
~ looo population in Texas that r,lIlsne. ;
,iOre business annually. Bryan has reyer
~ Douineu--her growth has been constant ald
sse.auy, and new enterprises, new bus ness
houses, and new residences are going up
81 r the time. Among the more
.nohlnent enterprises which have
neen established within the past few Years
nisht Dc mentioned an Oil mill with
ss~paei'y OF sixty tons every twenty four
a.. ours, and a compress with daily capac-
~ ~ OF loOU bales. Bryan also has electric
he,h water works. telephone system,
oo,h local and long distance a steam laun-
ur Two daily and four weekly newspapers,
soo'..i,ng works. four splendid gin plants,
soo,ooo stone court house, splendid
sSsnoois and churches, and various other
'ns ~, and enterprises
III, ne future OF Bryan is indeed bright
on splendid State Agricultural and Me-
dn ,..ai college is located only four miles
Instant and with her natural advantages
~ me way OF trade territory and rich ,
IT, 'ning lands surrounding, there is moth /,
- 70 prevent her becoming one OF tie |
eaaing Interior cities OF the state.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-03
CENTER.

~ This town has nine general merchan-
disc stores. four groceries. three drur
stores. four doctors. one dentist, five law.
yers offices. three hotels. three black
smith repairing shops. two printing Offices
one barber. shop. one photograph gallery,
three churches. two jewelers.. good school
aud brass band.
me population is from 500 to 1000. 4
ralIroaa IS in progress, the terminus being
Center. In the near future this place will
DC the trading place for from fifty 10
seventy miles south of here. Tine road is
70 ne finished tins fall We have the best
nrick court house in East Texas; brick
jail ana clerks Office. also.
w. l.. Maund, Mayor.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-03

oly treatment to the stranger wltair cur
yatos. We have grown from a frontier
village to our present size within he ,ast
Ten years. Our future will be glo,ious.
| w. IL. KaMsom. MayNr.1
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-03
RURNET.

- The county seat Of Burnet county, Sit
ua,ed On the Austin and Northwestern
iroaa sixty miles northwest from Aus
Is last becoming one of the most Im-
/, .aht cenfers OF the live stock business
va u only natural consequence on &C :
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-03
ITCTORIA.

Y 10 reply to yours Of recent date regard
ing progress made In Victoria during
the past fourteen years have TO say that II
has been great, isid especially so within
the last two years There have been com
pleted hare during these tive YEAR ~
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-03
ORANGE.

~ The city OF Orange, situated on the
west bank Of the Sabine river. is the
county seat OF Orange county, and has a
population OF 5000 inhabitants
There are six white and four colored
churches each having large membership.
Separate tres schools for all white rud
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-20
A Patriotic Sacrifice.

The entrance of tho man from rural re-
moteness did not arouse much enthusiasm
in the eminent politician. There was n
certain gloom about his bearing which the
visitors best attempts at sociability could
not dispel.
"Of course, Mr. Geehaw," said the
great man, Il am glad to hear all about
your family and our friends at homo and
especially about how much you did to Sc.
cure my election, but we may us well
get down to business. l suppose you re
no exception to the rule. What you want
is an office. y
Would it come jest as handy as not to
gimme one;'
ITO be very candid with you, it would
inconvenience me a great deal.
ooh, we'll, then, 20 needn't bother yer
self
'Do you mean that?'
Certainly | don't want no office.
His host opened his eyes wide and ex-
tended both hands in welcome.
My friend and fellow citizen, - he said,
"1'm glad to meet ii genuine patriot face
to face The trouble with this country is
that there are not more men like you. l
had begun TO fear we had reached an era
when no action and no declaration of prin-
ciple was untinged by a hope of reward.
I'm glad to beast the acquaintance of such
a man."
Thank ye; thank yo, kindly. l was
kind o gittin skeered fur fear yc had some
notion O goin back on yer old friends. As
was sarin, l don't especially want ne
office OF course I'd kind o like ter hev
a place weth desk into it whur the fel.
lers could come in an set around an swap
stories, but u new i'll the business, an |
don't wanter put on too much style. Ell
it'll be any convenience to We, ye kin
leave the office out of the question an do
up my salary in an even envellup an have
it sent around to my house. '-Washing.
ton Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-20

In spite of the terrible increase in the
destructiveness of modern warfare the
tendency of the times is to make con-
dict as humane as practicable. For this
reason the use OF copper covered bullets
has been frowned upon, and Philadel-
phia physician has plan that he claims
will wonderfully mitigate the suffering
of man whose body has been perforat-
ed by the modern small caliber bullet.
1t is well established that the velocity
md penetrating force Of these bullets
Ere so great that unless they chance to
strike a bone they will pass entirely
through a man s body without his know
ing it. The physician S idea is to attach
small wad OF aniseptic cotton to the
rear of the bullet This would be cover
ed by the shell Of the cartridge and
could not interfere with loading or fir
ing. AS the bullet passes through a per
son the wad will antisepticize the wound
and prevent conseuueut sunpnration 1t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-20
Truth and Fiction.

"Struwwelpeter, one of the pic
lures, represents little maiden, supine
in bed, very ill--and no wonder-with
an immense cherry tree growing out Of
her mouth. rphis was the sad result of
swallowing gthe stones along with the
fruit, in spiteIof all warnings. But we
all know that truth is stranger than
fiction, and the Petersburgskaya Gazeta
of June 26 and July s, 1897, quotes the
following exemplilication Of this saying
from the foreign papers:
"A little girl ! years OF age, Amelia
L., whose father worked at the sawmills
in Belgard (Ain). was at play the other
day, when she managed to push the
seed of plane tree deep into her ear.
Shortly after she began to experience
acute pains and it was found that the
seed had taken root i'll the waxy secro-
tions of the ear and was growing apace.
The father proceeded to cautiously up
root the intrusive plant, and the girl
has now recovered.
If this story is true, it is to be hoped
that Miss Amelia L., now that her ear
is once more free and in working order.
will incline it to hearken to the exhorta-
tions of her elders and will not 60 on
planting plane trees in such obviously
uncongenial soil Notes and Queries 4
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-20

"Th;s appears to be an age Of music, :"
said Mr.. Buglcton. "Hero in the ferry
house you find q monograph, into whose
ever open mouth somebody drops a nickel.
AS it begins to play people waiting gather
around to listen, and the man who has
started it displays his pcculiarities by
standing at one side and listening with
the rest or by planting himself square in
front of the horn and getting all he can
out OF it himself and letting the rest listen
with him.
Then there is the musical weighing
machine, which plays IA tune for you as
you stand upon the platform, and finally
losses out to you little card, upon which
you find your fortune told and likewise
your weight.
"Or you may hear the band play b,
dropping a penny in the slot, the band be-
ing q music box with IA cylinder as big as
q rolling pin,
cit is indeed an age of music-for a
consderation-but was there ever time
when you didn't have to pay the piper?"
New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-20
A Stayer.

Colonel J. W. Barnett, in New Orleans,
told story Of an unusually fine bird dog
that he once owned, the best dog, he said,
that ever was in his possession. He had
trained the dog with great care to know a
bird by the feathers it dropped Did a
partridge drop a feather the dog would
take the scent and find the birds retreat.
One day the colonel hit n wild duck, but
only knocked out "A few wing feathers
The dog shifted them and started away
After a little his master called him, but
got no response, and at the end of an ex-
haustive search of the neighborhood went
home, expecting the dog would come along
later. But the dog didn't come home UNI
til a week afterward, when one day he APP
peared, thin and bedraggled, just able to
trot slowly along the road, but carrying a
dead duck. The colonel had saved the
wing feathers which he saw the dog last
sniff, and upon comparison found that
they had belonged to the duck the faithful
brute brought homo. Apparently the dog
had followed the quarry until he found its
roosting place and nabbed it asleep.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-20
Too Classic. For Them.

-as;dent in small suburban town
'-"''" long distance from Boston had
a visit from German friend who knew
very little English but played the vio-
lin we'll One Of this residents neigh
bors gave musical evening"" and of
course he and his visitor We're invited
The German took his violin, and when
his turn came he played one of his best
pieces, from one Of the great masters.
When he had finished, there was an
awkward silence and no applause. The
people We're still looking expectantly at
the German, who looked disappointed
and flustered. The silence grew painful
Finally the hostess, quite red in the
face, edged over to the side of the Ger
mans friend.
Cant you get him to-" she whis-
pered
"What do you mean?'
"Why, now that he's got tuned up,
isn't he going to play something?''-
Youths Companion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-20
A GOOd-Bad Dog.

The Indian certainly showed fine sens,
of propricty when he named the bulldog
"a good bad dog" The name fits very
well.
Major Peter Roman, agent of the Flat
head Indians in western Montana, prr.
chased u fine bloodcd and ugly faced bull
dog, not to guard his pleasant quarters al
the Flathead agency, but to give his In.
dian wards new subject for study in thu
animal kingdom. The appearance of this
strange quadruped caused as much excite.
ment among these untutored sons of the
forest as a behemoth of the palcozoic age
would arouse by a sudden appearance on
Main street
The chiefs held a long consultation over
the characteristics of the animal and final.
ly decided to call him "a good bad dog. -
The first adjective is doubtless caused by a
certain Indian sense of diplomacy to be OK
ercised in addressing the animal. while
the latter is evidence of the red mans re.
gard for truth at all times At all events.
the name is worth studying. Helena
Mon.) Independent
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-20
Arithmetic and Medicine.

1t isan honest quackery that confesses
its own blunders, still ignorant that
they are nothing worse.
a whaling skipper, III the old days,
carried medicine chest and a table Of
directions. One of the rules ran. For
sore throat with fever. give table
spoonful of No. Is. +"
well, it so happened, explained
the captain, that No. 10 was all used
up. so gave the man a dessertspoonful
Of No. . ana another of No. 10,
and l don't think the ebay that drew
up the table could have been good at
figures or else. what's just as likely.
the medicines were all shams. Either
way. it was hard Oh poor Bill. He died
i'll half an hour, with dreadful pain
in his inside Exchange.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-20
CHINESE WILD HORSES.
Curious Little Animals Found In the
Western Part of the Empire.

The horse has become 50 thoroughly
domcsticated in all parts Of the world that
really wild representatives. Of the species
are extremely rare There still exist in
parts Of Hungary partially wild horses,
but these when captured young may be
broken in and put to harness with ms much
readiness as horses reared on "a farmstead.
Ii is, however, far different with tho wild
horses Of the Tartars. which are untam
able and will not live in captivity.
During In journey through western
China q. +. Grum Grizmuilo met with "A
wild horse in the D2ungarian desert. and
after much trouble succeeded in securing
two specimens, though neither Of them
were taken alive. The herds are extremely
cautious. and il WAS only by the utmost
patience and cunning that the explorer
were able to conceal themselves nea
enough to small salt lake where the
horses came to drink To shoot a couple OF
them The wild horse has something in
common with the Altai. Caucasian and
Finnish ponies. it is of short stature
| ii meters hieh-has a broad chest and
back. q short. massive neck and fine legs,
as elegant as those Of u race horse, ending
with broad ho0fs.
The head is rather heavy in comparison
to the body, but the wide forehead is hand
some. the line from the forehead to the
nose straight and the upper lip covers the
lower one The upper part of the tail has
the color of the body, but is black at the
point. and, like that Of the wild ass, is not
entirely covered with hair. The name be-
gins in front Of the ears the longest hairs
being in its middle part. 1t is black in
color and hangs over to the left. In the
scantinees of hair about the body the wild
horse rather resembles the Tekko Iurco-
man horse, hut the killed specimens had
a strange looking pair of whiskers, about
four ceptimeters long -Pittsburg Dis
match
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-20
ENTHUSIASTIC EVERY TIME.
No Danger of Time Hanging Heavy OF
This Mans Hands.

No Danger of Time Hanging Heavy on
This Mans Hands.
"Talk about enthusiasm-thcre is lei
low out nv way who beats anything III
that line YOU ever saw" said CHIEF Des'
mond to a few of his newspaper friends
81 won't tell you what his name Is, put
will point him out to you any night you
come out to see me-
"When he was Il boy, he was crazy ABOUT
gathering postage stamps He wrote, 40
vertised, hunted, and would nave walked
across the continent for u rarity III ms line.
Suddenly he switched to dogs ana had eV-
erything from toy terrier to TREAT Danes.
He had canine herd that made the neigh
borhood in which he lived positively dan
oerous The dog craze lasted until he fell
in love- He was just as enthusiastic about
the girl as he had been over the dogs and
postage stamps. The girl married him az
last to have peace.
when the honeymoon waned, he was
seized with the baseball craze. He never
missed a game for a whole summer. He
yelled, jawed, bet, and was u noisy bleach
er even in his sleep.
"Then came another turn of tho crank,
and he was an enthusiastic fisherman. He
invented and suggested more things &c
lure fish into u net or on to o hook than he
had fingers and toes, and he made them
all himself in his back yard when the fish
ing season was over
Now he is Il singer, and every house
within block of him is vacant He has
no more music in him than Il blackbird
but he is an enthusiast. He is good ten
ant or the landlord would have made hin
move long ago. His wife went down tt
pay the rent the other day, and she asked
the agent to just have a little more patience
that she was sure before long he would
have switched on to something else ovel
which he would go wild for awhile st
Louis Republic.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-20
There He Drew the Line.

"Pardon me-" said the polite highway
deliver
The coach stopped. The door opened
with surprising alacrity and a young wom-
an with "A very large hat stepped out into
the moonlight. In her hand she held u
small leather covered box
"Here they are" she said checrfully.
"What?' said the highwayman.
"My diamonds" said the lady. II am
an actress, you know, and
The highwayman leaped upon his horse
Madam" said he, removing his hat
gracefully. you must excuse me. l may
be a highwayman, but l am not an ad-
vertisement. boston Budget.