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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17

Mr.. Wheeler-The boys are going to
form military company; could you
suggest name which would show that
we are bicycle riders? Mr.. Waller
(cynically)- Well, you might call your
selves "The Mud Guards. Sheffield
Telegraph.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17
An Ideal wotan.

According to the Academy, suder-
mann is "a muscular giant, bearded
and blue-eyed," resembling "the ideal
Wotan of Wagnerlan drama" He is
a native of eastern Prussia.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17

Spain's experience with the "mana-
ma" policy in war proved so disastrous
that she didn't follow 1t in arranging
for peace.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17

There is no smaller person in a conf
munity than the constantly suspicious
mamie who is always looking out to
suspect people.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17

The Spanish soldiers under Blanco
are playing In mighty hard luck. They
have had no chance to surrender.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17

Guatemala's intermittent revolution
is again revolving, but as usual it
probably will be over in one round
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17

A bath with COSMO BUTTERMILK
SOAP, exquisitely scented, is soothing and
beneficial. Sold everywhere.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17

Colonel Roosevelt is also a rough
writer.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17

Tab lie Quah, !. r., August 12.-
Wolf Coon a ful,l-blood, and Watt
Duncan, half breed, have been
named for principal and assistant
chief of the Cherokee nation. The
nominations show the attitude of tie
full bloods. 1t means that they will
bitterly resist any changes proposed
by the United States.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17

London.-The receipt of Sir Charles
Tipton's challenge for the America
cup has been acknowledged by the
NV York Yacht club
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17

c. MArrEMAcnER, Editor and Pub
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17
Taught by Mail

When Answering Advertisements Kiadly
Mention This Paper
The herald., 1898-02-21
WANT AN ACCOUNTING
The Webber Heirs in Maine Wish to
Trace Their Contributions

The Webber heirs all over the country
have at various times, been importance
to contribute funds by the society in New
York to prosecute what has been repre-
sented 10 be their just claims to valuable
land in the city of New York. including
the very site on which Trinity church has
for wears stood. The agents of this soci-
e:v have been very successful, and sew
eral thousand dollars have been collected
at various times not a little of which has
come from the heirs in this state, and even
in the vicinity of this very city.
There are said to he four or five hundred
in our own midst who have lent a willing
ear to the story of the society's agents
and have put enough faith in their repre-
sentations TO materially augment the So
ciety's treasury.
The latter part of last year an effort
was made 10 get some response from this
society touching the work that had been
done and a sort of statement showing its
financial condition. 1t was hoped that by
January 1st some showing would be sent
them.
Failing to secure any satisfactory an
swers from the officers of the society,
it is reported that many of the weber
heirs in Maine have banded together and
collected a good sum of money, and more
to come If necessary for the purpose of de-
fraying the expenses of proper legal talent
to Investigate the conduct and proceedings
of this society from inception up TO the
present time They even go so far as TO
assert that If satisfactory financial state
ment is not made by the authorized agents
they will stop at no steps snort OF putting
the society into insolvency, If such be its
deserts Press.
The herald., 1898-02-21
MONEY PLANKS

The Democratic state convention of
California in 1896 adopted the following
money plank:
The Democratic party of the state of
California is unalterably in favor of the
free and unlimited coinage of both gold
and silver at the ratio of 16 to l, with
out waiting for or depending on the
action of any other ma at!on; and it de-
mands the use of silver as wel~as gold
as a full legal tender in payment of all
debts, both public and private.
On the same subject the Peoples party
of the state adopted the following plank:
Third-We renew and emphasize our
demand for free and unlimited coinage
OF silver as well as gold at the rats) of
lG to l, as a full legal tender and with
out reference to any other nation.
In the same year in state convention
the Republicans declared as follows:
We favor the free and unlimited coin
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to l, and
the making of silver as well as gold a
legal tender in payment of all debts,
both public and private.
was adopted, not only without dissent
but with enthusiasm. Assuming that the
delegates to the several conventions
fairly represented the views of their con-
stituencies, the conclusion is Irresistible
that the people of California We're uni
versally in favor of that kind of bimet-
allsm which means the use of both met
ais as the constitution provides, and
upon the ratio of coinage long recog-
nized in our laws, and in making the two
classes of coins full legal tender.
There was no public dissent from these
views until Wall street forced upon the
St. Louis Republican convention the
gold plank and whistled silver coinage
down the wind. The national conYen-
tions Of the Democratic and Peoples
parties reafiirmed the doctrine declared
their credit be it said that fifteen of the
California delegates to the Republican
national convention voted against gold
ism, and to stand by the sentiment de-
clared by their state convention. The
facts herein stated will be useful in re-
freshing the memory of our people who
have become wayward on the silver
question. 1t is incumbent on them to
explain how so radical a change has
come over the spirit of their dreams. -
Has the change been brought about
the influence of new light or is
it a result of a susceptibility to keep up
with party mutations?
The herald., 1898-02-21
ANOTHER KNOCK AT OUR DOOR

Southern California has acquired a
reputation most enviable, a fame that
extends to the farthermost corners of
the earth.
Southern California is generally con-
sidered as comprising the seven counties
of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego,
San Bernardino, Orange, Ventura and
Santa Barbara. Now comes the San
Luis Obispo Reasoner and wants to
know what is the reason San Luis
Obispo county is not included as part
of Southern California. 1t comedies that
the county has never really belonged
to Southern California; but that it has
been presumed" that such is the case.
One reason for the lack of close and
binding connection, it says, has been
that there has never been railroad COM
muncation with the southern part of
the state, nor, directly, with the east.
But the Reasoner, while it is obviously
hurt at the apparent snub, is shedding
no tears. 1t says:
We milk our cows and sell our butter
to our nervous neighbors of the or
The herald., 1898-02-21

A Syracuse woman was in Boston some
time ago. and she had occasion to get
check cashed, being without ready money.
She had no friend who was easily availa-
bic, but she went to a bank and presented
her check. OF course, she was told that
she must be identified. The cashier of the
bank suggested that she might have one
of her cards She took out her card case,
but the card she produced proved to be
that of one of her friends. This caused her
a good deal of confusion, but the accommo-
dating cashier suggested that she might
prove her identity by the initials on her
card case. But those, alas, proved to be
those of her mother. Her confusion con-
tinucd to increase. until she thought of the
initials on her handkerchief The marked
article was produced to be put in evidence.
but when it was examined it was found
to bear the initials of another friend. She
was thWartcd in every direction, but the
castier was "easy." Boston cashiers are
apparently not as strict as those in this
part of the country. For this pisticular
one said he guessed it was all right.
and he cashed the check Conductors of
tirilam and threC-card monte games are
directed to Boston for Il good field of op
CTatiOn.-SVracuSe Post.
The herald., 1898-02-21
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Mrs. James Wright, who died in Brook
lyn last week, was the last full b,ooded
member of the tribe of Montawk Indians.
With her death the tribe became extinct.
John Damn, a West Virginan. was mar
ried at distance from home and received
this telegram from the Old folks: Accept
congratulations from the whole Damn
family"
This was the laconic salutatory written
by Sherman NJ. Smith the new proprietor
of the Chillicothe, Mo-, Constitutions:
Thereafter l will attend 10 the editorial
work myself
William Bonny, who is now pauper IN
the St. Georges workhouse in London, and
slowly dying of consumption, is said to
have been the hero of the Emin Pasha re-
lief expedition
Prince Ferdinand De Croy, private cham
berlain to the pope, will soon be made
cardinal at the request of the king of Bel
gans, according to the Independence
Beige. The prince is so years of age.
Prince Alfred Impey of Africa, a grand
son of King Kama. who entered Shaw uni
versity (colored)' in Raleigh, N. c., last
fall has been taken to a sanitarium. he
is said to be hopelessly i'll with tubercu-
losis.
Congressman James II. Lewis of Wash
ington state is native of Virginia and
graduate of the state university. Whlle
student there he became involved in an
affair of honor" and bears as memehto
of it wound on his hand.
Reinhold Begas, the well known Gerfnah
sculptor, has been adjudged the winner III
the competition initiated by the govern
ment for a monument to Bismarck 10 DO
erected in Berlin His was the oilly reai'y
practicable design submitted.
Frederick Crowninshield. the artist IN
an address at the New York REFORM ciuo
recentlv-the theme of the evening being
"Municipal Arr'-after speaking Oh the
upI'ness of the modern city as compared
with the beauty of the ancient, said: The
rreat trouble is that New Workers don't
love ,heir city. and If they don't make her
y Itttie more beautiful soon they can never
love her"
There is great deal Of regret among the
members of the diplomatic corps and in
,Tosb,ngton society generally over the an
,o,,nrement that Don Domingo Cana. the
minister of Chile to the United States, has
been transferred to London by his gov
eminent. and will leave Washington in the
snrinr. Mr. Cana is one of the ablest as
well as the most popular of the foreign
ministers in Washington and his wife and
daughter are counted among the most
beautiful and attractive women.
The herald., 1898-02-21

ange groves. and enjoy our dolce far
niente. We ship our wheat and then
go to the beach fishing. We are happy,
so what is the use to get up steam
and fret and fizzle? We can grow or
anges when we get ready-enough to
supply Southern California. we can
grow bananas, guavas and loquats If
we like, and we shall do so when the
necessity arises. Just now our Iiol-
stems and Jerseys and Propo wheat
are all that we need to bother with.
These are brave words indeed, and
The Reasoner no doubt means what il
says. Nevertheless, there is plainly tc
De seen in its utterances a strong feel
ing of regret that san Luis Obispo is
not part of paradise. The Reasone.
would not only like to play in our bach
yard, but it would just dote on becom-
ng a part proprietor of it, besides con
to the front lawn as well. The
appeal is not one that may be ooldll
gnored, or even regarded with indiffer,
ence. Shall not San Luis Obispo become
me of Us?
The herald., 1898-02-21
WHAT JOHN SHERMAN SAID

John Sherman is not in the senate
now, and he is probably giad he was not
there when the Teller resolution, whici
was the Matthews resolution of 1878
came before that body. With his present
views upon the currency question, h
able explanations to make.
In 1878 Mr. Sherman, writing to cor
respondent upon the subject of the Mat
thews resolution. said:
Dear Sir: l was pleased to receive
your letter. My personal interests are
the same as yours. but. like YOU l do
not intend to be influenced by them. My
construction of the law is the result
of careful examination, and l feel quite
sure an impartial court would confirm
it. if the case could be tried before q
court. l send you my views as fully
stated in a speech. Your idea is. that
we propose TO repudiate or violate a
promise when we offer TO redeem the
"prncipal' in legal tenders.
l think the bondholder violates his
promise when he refuses 10 take the
same kind of money he paid for the
bond. If the case is to be tested by the
law l am right; if it is TO he tested by
Jay Cookies advertisements, l am
wrong l hate reputation or anything
like it, but we ought not to be deferred
from doing wha, is right by fear of
undeserved epithets. If, under the law
as X stands, the holders of the five
twenties can only be paid in gold. then
we are repudiators if We propose to
pay otherwise If the bondholder can
legally demand only the kind of money
he paid, then he is a repudiator and
extortionist to demand money more
valuable than he gave Yours truly.
JOHN SHERMAN.
There are no gold government bonds
therefore, the bondholders
who demand through their representa-
tives in congress. that the government
pay these obligations in gold are, ac-
cording to the John Sherman of twenty
years ago, "repudiators and cxtortion-
lists"
Some Republican who does not want
the greenbacks retired ought to reintro-
duce the Teller resolution with green
backs" substituted for silver dollars -
and back it up with John Sherman's let
ter.
The herald., 1898-02-21

An Oakland paper thinks that, mas
much as what is known as the Crawford
plan of voting is in vogue in several
counties of the state, the new primary
aw should not be made compulsory III
such sections. 1t occurs to us that a
statute so flexible as to make its avoid
lnce easy, through the medium of the
crawford plan or any ether subterfuge,
would fall far short of accomplishing
The objects so much desired, the safe
guarding of the primary as regular cleo
tions are safeguarded, with suitable
penalties for violation. Nive voce vot-
ng is indeed democratic, but 1t is prac-
ticab!e only in small communities in the
one instance and subject to gross abuses
in the other, hence not q panacea for the
evils complained Of. a primary law the
adoption of which is optional with local
party managers. would be wholly abor-
tive, and result in endless confusion.
The law as it stands is worthy fair
test. its shortcomings can be cured by
additional legislation.
The herald., 1898-02-21
Where Sleep the Guards

The car has got Port Arthur,
The kaiser holds Foo-Ching
The French have gobbled up Hai-Nan
The queen holds Ting-a-Ling.
The Cossack's on the Yangtse,
The Teuton's at Wing-tIi
The Gaul's eloped with Pitt-Sing,
The Briton holds Choo-Fli.
Wilhelm becomes King Bill-Hec.
The queens the Empress Yum,
The cars the Chung of Ditto;
But what do we become?
Where is great Wilhelm Chandler?
And where is Morgan true?
Where sleeps our gallant Cabot Lodge,
And all his fighting crew?
Why are they not at Teeville?
Why not at Hinki-Pank?
Why storm they not the heights of Ping
On Wun-Lung's flowered bank?
j. X. Bangs in Harper's Weekly.
The herald., 1898-02-21
A NARROW SHAVE
Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial
Africa

I stood to face the elephant and threw
up my rifle to fire at her head as she came
on at a quick run. without raising her
trunk or uttering a sound, realizing in
moment that this was the only thing to
do short was the distance separating
us. The click of the striker was the only
result of pulling the trigger. No cartridge
had entered the barrel on my working the
bolt after the last shot, though the empty
case had flown out. In this desperate
situation / saw at once that my case was
well nigh hopeless. The enraged elephant
was by this time within few strides of
me; the narrow path was walled in on each
side with thick scrub. To turn and run
down the path in an instructive effort to
escape was all l could do, the elephant
overhauling me at every step. AS l ran
those few yards made one spasmodc at
tempt to work the mechanism of the
treacherous magazine, and pointing the
muzzle behind me. without looking round.
tried it again. but 1t was no SO.
Dropping the gun, l sprang out of the
path to the right and threw myself down
among some brushwood. But she was too
close, and, turning with me, like a terrier
after a rabbit, she was on the top of me
as soon l was down. Kneel-
ing over me. but fortunately not touching
me with her legs, which must ! suppose,
have been on each side of mine, she made
three distinct lunges at me, sending her
left tusk through the biceps of my right
arm and stabbing me between the rieht
ribs. at the same time pounding my chest
with her head, or rather. l suppose, the
thick part of her trunk btween the tusks.
and crushing in my ribs on the same side.
At the first butt some part of her head
came in contact with my face. barking my
nose. and taking patches of skin off other
spots, and l thought my head would be
crushed, but it slipped back and was not
touched again. l was wondering at the
time how she would kill me; for, of course,
never thought anything but that the
end of my hunting was come at last. What
hurt me was the grinding my chest un-
derwent. Whether she supposed she had
killed me, or whether 1t was that she dis
liked the smell of my blood. or bethought
her of her calf, l cannot tell; but she then
left me and went her way.-Arthur ii.
Newman,
The herald., 1898-02-21
RECEPTION TO MR.. TOWNE

Friends of The Berald and of the cause
of BIN metallism who may not have had
the pleasure of meeting Hon. Charles a.
Towne, ill have an opportunity to do so
next Tuesday evening. An informal re-
ception is to be tendered him in the ed
itorial rooms of this paper from to 10
u. IN. Tuesday, February 22nd. BY this
means we shall speed the parting guest
and wish him success in hi tour of the
coast. No special invitations will be is
sued, but all friends of the cause that
Mr.. Towne soa ably represents are invited
to attend.
The herald., 1898-02-21

greatly outnumber the producers in
that the real miners-the men who go
underground with pick and shovel and
drill in search of the precious metals
constitute a very small proportion of
the population of mining camp even
of the healthiest variety, and in Alaska,
especially. will there be work for thou
sands of men outside of the mines.
Railroads are to be built, telegraph lines
to be constructed, cities to be created,
food and other supplies to be handled,
and governments to be created and con-
Quoted. Artisans of every kind will be
in demand and wages will be high. For
ests will be leveled, stone quarries will
be opened, lime kilns started. brick
manufactures established. water sup
plies secured and hundred other public
utilities provided, calling for the invest
ment of money and the employment OF
brain and muscle. And in the prosecu-
tion Of all these essential industries II
will be more than remarkable will
be little less than phenomenal-if i'm
portant discoveries of other useful met
ais not classed as precious" of valu-
able by-products, of useful sands and
clays, are not made. while the develop
ment of Alaskas other known re-
sources will doubtless keep pace
with the progress of the mining
and smelling industries of the
country and be stimulated by the
rapid accession of enterprising and rest
less people from all over the world.
Not more than 20 per cent of the pop
ulation of any large mining camp with
which we are familiar is composed of
miners. The so per cent cater to the
wants of the other fraction. Even a
larger percentage will find plenty to do
in Alaska. owing to the isolation of the
country and the absence within its bor-
ders of the conditions ready made for
a comfortable civilization.
At all events a large number of peo-
pie are going in, many to remain and to
be reinforced by others. All will have to
be fed and clothed, and the food and the
clothing will in large part have to be
imported from the states. Californias
fields and orchards and mills and facto-
ries will be largely drawn upon to sup
ply the needs of the new communities.
They are equal to any probable requisi
tions of the near future.
Alaska promises to be more profitable
to California than the acquisition of half
a dozen south-sea settlements like Ha-
waii. with their naked civilizations.
Miners want the best, and are ever will
ing to pay for it. The new mining COM
munities will become permanent tribute
payers to California. The country is an
empire in extent. full of virgin resources.
1t is as large as all that part of the
United States lying east of the Mssis-
sippi river, excluding the gulf states,
and laws as immutable as that of gravi-
tation will empty its wealth into our
The herald., 1898-02-21
"Overcoat King" Caught

Herman Andrews of 153 West Twenty
fifth street. who is known about the Ten
derlOn as Mary Smith, on account of his
blcachcd hair and effeminate appearance
was Il prisoner in the jefferson Market
court yesterday on the charge of having
stolen number of pieces of wearing ap-
parcl from houses on the west side of the
town. He came from Chicago recently
whore he was called the "Overcoat King
out Of compliment to his deXterity in steal
ing oVercoats from public or private build
ings
The prisoner confessed that he hat
stolen no fewer than 100 Overcoats in the
last nine weeks, and that his thefts mostly
We're from boarding houses, which he en-
tered on the preteXt of hiring a room-
New York Times.
The herald., 1898-02-21
The Society "Cake Walk

On. bring yoh gold-trimmed razzer long,
We wants no common steel,
An wifi a gilt pianner put
De rag time in yoh heel.
Dem people in Chicago-town
wifi envy gwnter wilt
When dey hyahs of de cale-walk dat was
led
BY Bruhthuh vanduhblt
Yoh leaves yoh tas'e foh 'possum home.
Dew gives yer terry-pin.
no drinks. dev fIzzcs like dcy put
A Sldlitz powder In
Dem razzers lis on'y les foh show,
Dab won't be no one kilt.
Da's n mighty cur'rs cake-waik led
BY Bruthuh, Vanduhbilt.
Washington Evening Star.
AS far as calculations can decide. The
Temperature OF comets Is believed to be
2C0o times fiercer than that OF red-hot iron,
The herald., 1898-02-21

Young Letter is being roucdly bella
bored by the press for his recent act in
cornering so much of the visible con
him, prospectively at least, and as the
margin narrows to absolutely control
the price, as if that were crime. Why,
Gage plan of cornering the gold sup
ply and controlling the currency of the
country 1t is indeed scarcely more than
an innocent diversion in comparison.
The herald., 1898-02-21
Origin of Calling Cards

A French journal says that visiting cards
are not a recent invention, nor even OF
European origin They existed in China
twelve centuries ago, but their use did not
spread to France until the last century
The Chinese cards, however, had little re-
semblance to those in use in Europe to-
day They contained often wonderful de-
signs expressing al! sorts of good wishes
for those for whom they were intended.
The size of the card indicated the respect
the owner had for its recipient. In the
seventeenth century the English ambas-
sador at Pekn received from the Chinese
government a card eighteen feet long.
which was carried by six men, CARDS
were illustrated with designs, the work
frequently of artists OF reputation wnen
first introduced In France. Neurological
subjects were most in vogue. THESE were
in fashion until the first empire, and 1t was
not until 1S45, when the use of cards be-
came universal that the name on them was
engraved in the simple form Of today.-The
Partisan.