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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-07-04

HE citizens OF
Red Dog were
duinfounded one
day the latter
part Of June
wllcn an order
was issued by
the newly elect
cu mayor strict
ly prohibiting
amy celebrating
in the town on
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-07-04
spoiIa.

Little Treddie-Pa. what are the
Hpoila OF wari
Pa-The money the heroes gct for
writing mesazine stun that was con-
talned 10 newspaper articles Published
mepiha bpfoEes~1hleagQ News
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-07-04
Nephew What have you struck now,


Novice-What do EPu call that chap
that's playing out there between sec
ond and third bases'?
Bleacher- We call HIN the comma.
Novice-I'he comma? What do you
call him that for?
Bleacher-.Because he's the short
stop-see?-R Boston Courier.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-07-04
DOCS No nesi ne Cnn,

"Ilenry. why do YOU smoke contin-
ually from morning uhril night?"
"lt's the only time ! get. sleep
FROM night till morning. Tit Bits.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-07-04
NO SEAT, mo NICKEL
A Humorous Fourth Of July Story by
Rosa c.. Eichorn.
IcopyrIsht, 1000, y n. c. riohorn ]

HE Fourth was
the hottest day
on record, and
the car. w n S
crow dcd. ii @
was fat and per-
spirlilg aud APP
pcilIcd thorough
ly o'llruGed as lie
struggled with
the strap over
head.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-07-04
M. M. s. POULTRY FENCE.
Squos SO par cont of tho cost of tho Completed euoo

To prove it we rive estimated cost OF 60
reds OF fence mutesof both N. NJ. s. fouitry
Fence and Diamond Netting.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-07-04
RED DOGS FOURTH.
A Joker Mixed the Mayor, and the
Town Had a Close Shave,

Copyright. 1909. BY A. 3. 1ewis.l
The Conservative, 1900-12-27

A luxury of poverty is that no one
steals it's children for a ransom.
If the Cudahys had been charged a
bigger ransom-something the size and
political style of the Hon. Frank Ransom
all Omaha might have been proud to
have aided in delivering the same.
No law to punish the abductor and
extortionist in Nebraska, says the wise
man. But the justice of the peace who
when boys were arraigned before him
for pouring vinegar in a neighbor's
churn-said: "There amt no law in
Nebraska pervidin for punishin a feller
as vinegarizes neighbor's churn," was
brother to the wise man who now finds
no law under which to punish the
Cudahy boys captors.
The Conservative, 1900-12-27
Tbe Conservative.
The Des Moines
Capital : takes the
POPOCRATIC
CONSISTENCY.

CONSISTENCY. OopioaI Vohoo oho
stand that be.
cause Benjamin Harrison had twice
been honored by the republican party
he was justified in not lifting his voice
in protest against an un American policy
when it was advanced by the republi-
can party.
Of course no one expected the Des
Moines Capital to take any other stand.
1t demands that all republicans swallow
anything advanced with the brand re.
publican at the peril of being called
traitors and copperheads.
Patriotism must play second fiddle to
partisanship if standing is maintained
in the g. o. p-Omaha World Herald.
According to the World Herald, it is
a patriotic duty for ex-President Harri-
son to differ with his party, but for ex-
President Cleveland to assert his politi.
cal independence is most unworthy
act, an objectionable crime. Grover
Cleveland, like Benjamin Harrison, is
an anti-imperialist and believer in the
gold standard for money. Wherein does
their patriotism differ?
The Conservative, 1900-12-27
STATE HORTICUL.
TURAL SOCIETY.

TURAU SnCIETy TIVE mas received
the annual report
of the Nebraska State Horticultural
Society for the year 1900. The volume
contains much useful information.
The imprint upon it is: Lincoln,
Neb., Published by the State, 1900"
The state ought to be ashamed of the
book. The paper is cheap No. 2
print" and not worth to exceed two
and one.half cents a pound. From q
mechanical standpoint the book is not
up to the work done on the Washington
handpress in territorial days, when
lampblack and wagon grease were
frequently used for ink. The proceed
ings of the society are valuable and they
are worth preserving in decent volumes
on good paper.
The Conservative, 1900-12-27
The agricultural
department once
employed Rev. S.
8. A. KNAPP
SEED SEEK Err.

A. Knapp to seek rare seed in Europe
and subsequently as an observer of the
possibilities of agriculture in the
Philippines.
The Reverend Knapp was formerly
connected with the institute for the
blind in Iowa. He was superintendent
of that establishment for six years and
then made paradise out of the agri.
cultural school at Ames, after which he
became planter of an Iowa colony in
Louisiana. The Reverend Knapp is an
interesting character with a biography
which ought to be published.
The Conservative, 1900-12-27

Dave Howard,
who defeated Ed
gar Mercer for congress, is now editing
a sixteen to. one anti writ of injunction
and roinitiative.and referendum. plain
peoples 's-paper at Columbus.
Edgar Mercer is petitioning congress
for subsidy for line of steam plows
to ply between the Missouri river and
the Rocky mountains. Mr.. Howard
thinks subsidies for those who plow the
lea are equally as useful and constitu
tional as the subsidies that 60 to those
who plow the sea.
The Conservative, 1900-12-27
A SERMON.

OrQer NUMBER
eleven of General
Tom Ewing drove all of the white
people, federal and confederate, out of
jackson county, Missouri. Many of the
refugees came to Otoe county, and Me-
braska City, in 1868 4, became an
asylum for scores of exiles from the
neighborhood of independence. Promi-
nent among them was Aquilla Lobb,
Kentuckian by birth, who had settled
in Jackson county soon after the Missouri
compromise of 1920. Mr.. Lobb was
plain, rugged, honest man. He was six
feet in height, we'll proportioned and
weighed about two hundred and twenty
pounds. His hair was iron grey, his
eyes steel blue, full of kindly light, and
his manner gentle and winning. His
sympathetic nature was constantly
shaken and panied by the distress and
sickness of many of his old neighbors.
Some of them were here in Nebraska
and others had drifted into Illinois.
And on bitter cold day in January
word came that of one family, who had
gone to a point near Quincy in that
state, only two young girls remained.
The father first, then the mother, and
last the only brother had died of mill
tary banishment and homesickness.
And with this sad news Mr.. Lobb was
so impressed that nothing else could
command his attention. His sole
thought was of those orphaned girls, the
children of neighbors, on farm adjoin-
ing his own, whom he had known for
more than thirty years. He talked of
them to all whom he met that day, and
at his request the writer drew up sub
scription paper and headed it, for the
purpose of providing funds for those
lonely and homeless ones.
That night blizzard swept across the
The Conservative, 1900-12-27
plains. The snow in fine, sharp, sand.

ried and whirled
in binding eddies and stung the face
like flying needles. The wind shrieked
and howled and the panes in the cottage
windows ratified with the sash, while
the piercing cold crept in at every
crevice. While we were listening to the
blast, and wondering whether any poor
mortal was unhoused against it's tempest
uous fury, step creaked and crunched
upon the ice and snow of the piazza and
then came knock upon the door. 1t was
opened; and covered with snow, great
icicles hanging from his beard, in came
Mr.. LObb.
AS soon as he was warmed and could
speak he said: "You see I couldn't
- sleep, sir, for think.
ing of those two
poor girls in strange land and no father
nor mother to look after and care for
them. And after left you today, you
know, raised hundred and seventy
dollars to send them. But dofl1 know
how we can get it to them. They know
nobody in Quincy and nobody in Quincy
knows them. And I came up-though
it is after nine o'clock-to see if you
could devise any way of getting the
money, sir, into the hands of those
poor wanderers.
"In Quincy is a noble woman. de.
voted mother, the wife of Col. William
A. Richardson
who succeeded Mr..
Douglas in the United States senate,
and we can get draft to her order for
the amount, send it to her and send the
girls letter introducing them to her as
the persons whom we wish to benefit
and tomorrow morning we'll attend to
the whole matter" said the writer in
reply. But the old man could not
defer. His heart was anxious. And
so, at his insistence, the letters to
Mrs. Richardson and the girls were
written then and there. When all were
finished and the old man had resumed
his great coat, his tippet, muffier and
gloves, standing in the northeast room
of Arbor Lodge, and with look of
sublime faith in his eyes and serene
satisfaction warming every lineament
of his benignant face. he broke forth in
speech. His voice trembled with
emotion and sincerity sanctifed every
word. He said:
"This is just as was sure it would
be. I have known their father and
mother more than thirty years. They
were honest, generous, law-abiding,
good people. They never wronged any
human being. They told the truth and
this had to be just as it is and the money
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-14

-Ex-Gov. Kellogg of Louisiana, who
was prominent in Federal politics, during
the reconstruction period, is at work on
a volume of memoirs Of that time,
San Diego county, California, voted to
support the candidacy of U. S. Grant,
Jr., one of it's citizens, as a delegate TO
the Philadelphia Convention, but refused
to consider a resolution indorsing him for
Vice President.
Mrs. Sally Baker, who died at Marsh
field, Mass, on Wednesday last, at the
age of 101 years, was the only pensioner
of the war of 1872 in the Bay state. She
and her husband lived for many years on
a farm adjoining the estate of Daniel
Webster She left number of children
and grandchildren.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has given the
old Stanford home in Sacramento, Cal,
to Bishop Mora of the Catholic Church,
together with a 900 endowment with
which TO maintain 1t as an orphanage.
This is the house where Senator Stanford
lived for twenty years and where his son,
in whose memory the Stanford Univers-
ity was founded, was born.
John D. Rockefeller said in an address
before a New York Bible class the other
evening: THE pursuit of riches is not
a wrong thing. On the contrary, gold
is one of the mghtiest agents for the
doing of good, and though there are bad
rich men just as there are bad poor ones,
l believe that most wealthy persons look
upon their money as a sacred trust which
they hold for the good of their fellows"
Two persons of the name of William
Mckinley are on Uncle Sans pay roll.
One draws a salary Of $4136 a month as
President, and the other 800 a month as
engineer in the Louisville Custom House.
There are forty-eight organs, and three
of them were christened William. There
used to be two Grover Clevelands in the
public service. but there is only one now.
He is assistant farmer at the Fort Peck
Indian agency, and receives salary of
$3.50 a month.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-14
ENORMOUS FIRE LOSSES.

During the year 1899 mills and factories
were more than ordinarily busy, mer-
chants transacted increased business, and
prices were generally advancing. Com
modities then In stock had been purchas-
ed at figures which could not be dupli-
Gated. In many instances new supplies
of manufactured articles could not be OBJ
tanned except after a wait of weeks or
even months. Under such circumstances.
when profits were assured, the "moral
risk" of insurance underwriters must
have been low just as the moral
risk" might reasonably be expected to be
high under falling prices and stagnating
business conditions. Nevertheless. with
prosperity booming, the fire losses. in the
United States last year reached the enor-
nous total of s153 597, $50. These figures"
said President Irwin of the National Board
of Fire Underwriters at the annual meet
ing of the board in New York the other
day, "are so striking as to lead TO their
mention in advance of all other matters.
If we may judge from such records as
are accessible, property in the United
States is burning in greater proportion TO
values than in any other country" Not
for ten years have the losses been nearly
so large; and, according to President IT.
WINS view, there. is no immediate pros
pect of betterment, unless the causes of
the fires can be detected and remedied.
Taking into account all taxes and other
necessary charges, he says that the fire
insurance business of the past ten years
has been done at a loss; meanwhile the
tendency of legislation has been TO "pyra-
mid taxation upon the insurance COM
panies and thereby make more costly to
the merchant, the manufacturer and the
householder the policy upon which in case
of loss they rely for decentralization
Reports submitted to the meeting show
ed that abe number of fires resulting
from electric wires has increased stead
lily for the past ten years. the number
for the first three months of the cur
rent year indicating an average of about
$50 for abe year.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-14
TIE COST OF BAD ROADS.

1t is estimated that the state of Mary
land has spent on an average 100000 a year
for the past ten years on her common
roads. and that the greater part of this
money has been wasted In making temper
airy repairs. Had the total for ten years
been put into improved, permanently hard
ened highways. the amount would have
been sufficient to give the state a very
satisfactory, If not complete, system of
good roads. And what is true of Mary
land in this matter Is also true of Geor-
gia. Year in and year out we waste
money and labor in working the public
roads by throwing few spadesful of
earth in holes and ruts only to be washed
out by the next rainfall. Permanence Of
repairs, or building upon scientific princi-
pies roads that will last for years, is sell
dom thought of outside of the cities and
their immediate surroundings The peo-
pie seem to fear that the cost of good
roads would be too great TO be borne con-
veniently. AS a matter of fact a system
of good roads is one of the best invest
ments that county or a community can
make.
The Maryland Geological Survey est
mates that, while it has cost the state
100000 per annum to maintain its system
of poor roads. ii has cost the people of that
state not less than SO, 10000 a year more
to do their hauling over poor roads than 1t
would have cost TO move the same tonnage
OF freight over soet; roads. The farmers
of England, Germany and France are able
to do their hauling for about one-third
what similar transportation costs the
American farmer, for the reason that they
have good roads upon which to travel In
France one horse will carry to market
with ease a load that would stall three to
four horses on the average unimproved
American highway.
1t is an interesting fact, by the way, that
while the United States as a whole are
noted for having the worst roads in the
world, some of the states are coming to
the front rapidly and constructing the
best roads in the world. Indeed several of
the states have sent exhibits TO the Paris
Exposition for the purpose of showing
good-roaded France and Europe generally
how to construct first-class roads cheaply.
Notwithstanding they have been road
builders for hundreds of years, and we
have only lately paid any attention what
our improved machinery and advanced
ideas we are able to construct at reasona-
BILE cost a highway that is an Improvement
upon the highways of Europe, which cost
infinite, labor and large sums.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-14
Unexpected Results.

Say" said the man with the worried
look, according to the Baltimore Ameri-
can, "do you remember giving me a lot
of advice on how to conduct my love af-
fairs about two months ago?"
Yes" replied the man with the wise
expression.
Told me II wanted to win the girl 1
should make love to her mother!"
"Uh-huh"
said If I could get the old lady on my
side all had to do was to toddle around
with a ring and say. When? to the
girl.
The wise man NODDED.
Said for me to compliment the mother
on her youthful appearance" continued
the worried man, land give her a jolly
about how sad it was that che young
ladies of the present were not to be COM
pared with those of the 9ast?"
Yes. Yes. You won the girl, 1 sup
poser"
Yes, I did-not. The old lady has sued
her husband for divorce, and me for
breach of promise"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-14
SIR Charles Warren,s bath.

There is something extremely English In
the story of Sir Charles Wraren doing
trimbics,' as Bouncer expressed 1t, in the
open air on the battlefield of Vaal Kranz.
says the London News. Sir Charles 1T
-upPaars, is a strong believer in hydro
patlfy, and unoSss-ro circumstances inter-
mits his morning bath. On the eseeasiesa &C
Buffers last effort TO relieve Ladysmith
according to IN. A Ply, Sir Charles
found 1t impossible to leave his post, so
when day broke on the battlefield, he or
dered his servant to bring his bath with
sponge and towel, and there and then, in
the open air, Sir Charles Warren, com
handing the Fifth division, proceeded to
take his bath, sublimely Indifferent to the
fire of the enemy. The enemy were, per-
haps, too much astonished at the British
eccentricity of bathing at all, much more
of bathing In this extremely public fash
ion, TO attempt any violent interruption. A
humorous addition to the incident relates
how Sir Redvers Butler, wishing to con-
suit with Sir Charles, sent his orderly to
summon him. But not even an order from
the commander-in-chief could interrupt
matutinal function, and Sir Redvers was
obliged to ride to the bather, and then an
important conversation was held between
the two generals-the one on horseback
and the other in his tub. Diogenes him
self never performed feat of cooler in
difference tt, tine conye-a tioIai.ties than Sir
Charles on this occasion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-14
TIE NEGRO AND CRIME.

One manner in which the race problem
is growing upon the North was indicated
in the address Of Bishop Rennick Of Bal
timore before the Race Conference at
Montgomery. The Bishop declared that
from FIVE 10 eight negroes in the North,
under Northern conditions, committed
crimes to one In the South. This does not
mean that in the South the race is COM
paratively harmless. The ratio Of crini-
| nails in the South is more than three blacks
| to one white Notwithstanding the great
pIeponderance of white population. 1t
does mean, however, that the South un-
derstands and manages the negro better,
thus holding his criminality down below
the percentage which he reaches when
he goes to the North.
In the North there has heretofore been
some adherence to the theory of the equal
ity of the negro with the white man. The
laws and the customs of that section were
made to suit the white race. When the
negro has gone North he has presumed
upon the equality theory. feeling himself
'as good as his white neighbors, and
believing himself possessed of an
indefinite but to him practically
unlimited number of rights" which he
thought would enable him to do pretty
much as he might choose. And being
among 1.-THE Yankees" who had freed him
and conferred citizenship upon him, the
negro has felt that the moral code rested
more lightly upon him in the North than
in the South. The result is no doubt TO
be seen in the fact that the ratio of GRIM
inality in the North Atlantic states has
increased since 1870 from 1858 per 100, 900
to SS.2. During the same period there has
been an Increase in the ratio of criminality
in the South Atlantic states, but it is not
nearly so large.
The fact that the criminal population
of the North is being constantly and con-
siderably increased by the black race may
be expected soon to force itself upon the
attention of the lawmakers and moulders
of public opinion In that section; and then
the people of the North will awaken to
the fact that they sowed dragons teeth
when they forced the negro as citizen
upon the unwilling South
Notwithstanding the millions of dollars
that have been poured out for the educa-
ton of the negro during the last thirty
years-Bourke Cochran pointed out in his
Montgomery speech that the South had
given $1OooOO,OoO for the purpose-the Grim
inality of the race has shown an alarm
ing rate of increase. According to tables
compiled from official statistics by the
chaplain of the California state prison,
the ratio of negro criminals in the United
States in 1870 was 1921 per 100000 of negro
the ratio had increased to S2.75, or slightly
more than 100 per cent. in two decades Is
education the solution of the problem?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-14
THE FuTuRE OF KRUGER.

What shall be done with Kruger?'' is
a questio which the British people are
discussing There was a rumor some time
ago that 1t has been decided he should be
sent to st. Helena and kept there during
his lifetime. 1t seems, however, that the
matter is stu open. The common belief
is that Cronje win be released as soon as
the war is over, and there Is some doubt
that Kruger will ever see st. Helena. But
would it not be advisable for the British
to defer discussing what they will do with
him until they have captured him?
AT the time of the breaking out OF the
war there was a strong sentiment in
London in favor of hanging Dom Paul as
soon as ever hands could be laid upon him.
He was looked upon as an arch rebel
against the government of Great Britain.
the suzerain of the South African Repub-
lie, and it was declared that such rebels
deserve nothing short of death. Now,
however, public opinion has been softened,
and the hard-headed old Boer is conceded
to be patriotic and gallant man. Still,
the British think he is misguided, and de-
serves punishment of some sort. But
not to be thought of for a moment, and
lifetime Punishment to st. Helena would
make of him in tthe eyes of all burgher
South Africans a hero and martyr whose
fame would be undying.
1t will be the British policy TO wipe out
the bitterness of the war as rapidly as
possible. upon the conclusion of a peace,
in order that prosperity may speedily re-
turn TO the country. The British, there
fore will do nothing harsh in the treat
ment of the Boer leaders. There Is a
growing sentiment in London In favor of a
policy of kindness and liberality towards
President Kruger, even to the extent of
permitting him to return to the Tranvaal
after the country has been pacifed, and
providing him with an estate and an
income.
The bitterness of the Southern States
against the North In consequence of the
War of Secession was intensified by the
treatment of President jefferson Davis by
the Northern military authorities. Mr.
Davis was as fine a specimen of American
patriotism and craftsmanship as ever
lived. Nevertheless, the Victors put him
in irons and imprisoned him in a fort.
Suppose Jefferson Davis had been treated
with the consideration which it is being
Paul Kruger, can it be doubted that the
effect upon the people of the South would
have been most salutary?