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The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-19
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE

BUCKLEN' 5 AKNICA sally u.
The best and most famous
compound in the world to con-
quer aches and kill pains.
Cures Cuts, heals burns and
bruises, subdues inflammation,
masters Piles. Millions of box.
es sold yearly. Works wonders
in Boils, Ulcers, FelonsI ( Skin
eruptions. 1t cures or no pay,
25c at ]. w. Harris. {
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-19

Hugh Clark, the well known
Monroe City, Mo-. stockman. ar
rived yesterday a week ago with
o shipment of 63 head of fine
young bulls. Of these he has
sold to T. G.. Hendrlck, IS Here
fords; to E. A. Kelley of Odessa,
6 Red Polled; to r. A. Whitaker,
1S Polled Angus; E. H. Estes. :
Durhams; Jim Self, l Herefordi
Bill Gam, of Odessa, 5 Red Poll
ed; Charlie White, 2 Durhams
and TO Will Hanson, l black
Muley. He had but 10 lief
Thursday. These are all fine
animals, and sold at private
terms.-Midland Reporter.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-19

Albert Owens and John Helm
will leave for Brackettville the
latter part of this week with
about 60 head Of fat cattle which
they will sell to government
contractors at Fort Clark ...
G. L. Blandon sold his ranch
this week to j. B. Handy, of
Austin, for 81, 500; also 225 head
of cattle at SIS around; Mr.. Ham.
by will build a house on the well
section, which lies in Sutton
county. r. S. Holland made the
eal.-Sonora Sun.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-19
STOCK NEWS.
PHONE 2AA.

Charles Farquhar, Saturday,
sold to r. n. Robbins ten head of
mule colts at p. t.
Henry Hagelstein is the lead.
ing saddle and harness man of
West Texas and when you need
any thing in the saddle and har.
ness line it will pay you to call
on him as he makes the best sad
die in the world and carries the
largest stock.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-19

Don't let the hand Of time paint
wrinkles on your face. Keep young
by keeping the blood pure and the
digestive organs in healthful con-
dition. HERBINE will do this.
Health is youth; disease and sickness
bring old age. Price 80 cents. For
sale by j. w. Harris & Co.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-19
MANY SHEER.

There is much pain in this world !.
There are so many causes for physi-
cal distress. Boneache Is terrible.
Nerveache is awful Why not use
that best OF all internal or external
cures for pain called Gooch's Quick
Relief? Only 25 cents.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-19

A car of yellow Kid" disc
plows, disc harrows, planters,
etc, at e. L. McAlpine'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31
WOMEN WHO ARE
 THEIR OWN OVERSEERS

From the New York Times.
 Mrs. Howard Gould assumes the role of overseer of the workmen employed at the Gould mansion from the moment they enter the house until they drop their tools at night and depart for home. Hers is no lackadaisical interest in tne affairs of her decorators and carpenters, but she makes each man "step lively in a most business like fashion. A rule that Is never swerved from in the slightest degree is that of ehrollment If a man doesn't wish to be enrolled. he must go; if he ob- jects to being numbered, there Is another to take his place. As the average labor CT is not very rebellious when it comes to matters of this kind, Mrs. Gould usual ly finds no difficulty in writing down the name of each man and setting num- Der opposite to 1t, this number corre- spending with one on a badge of blue ribbon which she causes to be pinned to the mans coat or suspender strap.
 This done, in the first hour when the worlmen enter the house, they take up their various branches of work, and the unsophisticated thinks he is left to the sole management of his master workman But not so; Mrs Gould goes among her workmen once during the morning and surveys their work, with the observation of a woman who may change her mind a hundred times before the work is com pleted. Then comes the noon hour. If the men are not back at work when they should be- Mrs. Gould wants to know the reason for the delay, and immediately in- quiries into the matter. When these men work in the afternoon, Mrs. Gould is gen. orally among them twice directing a change here. suggesting different pat tern or some new and fantastic idea.
 Woe to the man who displeases; he cannot stay. It isn't just report made to the master workman. nor a complaint to the contractor but immediate, rapid fire action takes place. Mrs. Gould ranges her little force of authority Qn the form of Mrs. Gould herself, a lead pencil and @ notebook in front of the unfortunate offender, and, calling his number and name. crosses both from the book with stroke of her pencil that plainly says Out d--- spot" and, whether it be in the morning. afternoon or evening, that workman is discharged then and there, and no amount of argu- ing will keep him his place. He has of- tended. and must go.
 A different atmosphere pervades Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish's home. Mrs. Fish is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31
WHY HAVE A sToMAcH9
If the Dictum of Doctors Be Accepted,
 We Need None.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
 A writer in the Lancet informs the world that ''the operation of gastrectomy is on its trial" He then quotes the opin- ions of the others on this question thus:
 Although the entire stomach has been removed for cancer with temporary sue cess, we cannot think that the number of cases in which this can be done will be large; nor do we look upon the opera ton as at all a favorable one. They do not even describe the operation, as if the growth be sufficiently large to war rant such a severe procedure, it is prac- tically beyond hope of immunity from recurrence"
 It is evident that the Lancet" expert has no patience with surgeons who would permit people to retin their stom- achs when opportunities for removing them have been offered. Here is his dec- larations
 '.It seems to me that in all cases of gastric carcinoma where operation is ad- visable at all gastrectomy is indicated, as 1t having been proved that the stom- ach is not essential for digestion, the more complete its removal the greater should be the probable immunity from recurrence, while the risk Is not propor- tionately increased. If at all possible it is, however, wise, for physiological reas- ons as well as for ease in operation, to leave a small portion of healthy stom- ach."
 The gentleman should be thanked for his concession as to the small portion of healthy stomach, but why leave any of the stomach if 1t is not essential for digestion? Why carry a stomach or even a portion of one around just as a mat ter of form? Describing an interesting operation performed by himself the 'Lancet's" correspondent very interest ingly says
 "As compared with pylorectomy the operation as performed in the case was easier and took less time, because there was less stomach surface to suture. The cut edges were easily and rapidly brought together with continuous silk sutures (through all the coats), and then the duodenum was implanted into the very small surface of the fundus that was left Had there been difficulty in approximation I would have closed the duodenum and attached the jejunum."
 This plain and unequivocal statement should inspire the public with new con- fidence in surgery. When it becomes possible in case of difficulty of approxi- nation to close the duodenum and at tach the jejunum who can reasonably continue to sit back in doubt? Down ,.riti, tha stnrt ,h U
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31
DOMINANCE OF TRUST ISSUE.

Washington Dispatch to Boston Journal
 Since the speech of Attorney General Knox at Pittsburg. letters and dispatches have come to the White House and the department of justice by the thousand, urging the administration to go ahead on the lines laid down by the attorney gen. eral of reaching the evils of trusts by broadening and strengtheing existing laws
 If these letters and dispatches were to be printed the effect would be startling. They came from men of prominence in politics, business and professional life all over the country, and most remarkable of all they came from representatives of capital who admit that the time is at hand when the government must take steps to curb gigantic combinations. AL most every so-called "trust" except those which the government is already engaged in prosecuting, has conveyed to the attor- ney general approval of the administra- tion policy as outlined in the Pittsburg speech.
 The discussion of trust legation will be the most conspicuous feature of the Pres ident's message to congress. He will reiterate what he said year ago, and will urge congress in the strongest pos sible language to take up the subject
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31
BOOMING eADsDEN.
From the Gadsden Evening Journal.

From the Gadsden Evening Journal.
 The advantages that will accrue to this district from the location of the steel plant at Gadsden, are almost unlimited. It will benefit property owners by ad- vancing the price of real estate and in- creasing rents. It means the development of our vast mineral wealth. It meane employment for hundreds of men and boys, the building of new homes, the erection of business houses and a great increase in the revenue of town and county. A fortune will be paid out every week to the employees of the mill and fur naces and the greater part of it will be spent in Gadsden. By next spring farm CTS of the surrounding country will have A. fine market for the products of gar dens. dairy and orchard. with higher prices than they have been able to obtain hitherto. Moreover. other industries will inevitably follow this one. The Schulars have established a valuable precedent
 Investors will know that this plant would not have come here without strong req sons. Henceforth, when other cities un- dertake to capture big industries, Gads- den must be reckoned with. Already 1t
 is known that the Birmingham district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31
COST OF GROCERIES.
What a Former Generation Paid For
 Flour and Potatoes.

From the Retail Grocers' Advocate.
 From statistics of prices recently fur nished by a grocer in business previous to the civil. war it is shown that flour re- tailed for s750 per barrel in 1S50 In 1856 1t had risen to s12.50 per barrel.
 But during the year 1865,, when the war was closed, prices had reached marvel ously high figures. For instance, flour sold for $2O per barrel, sugar 33 cents per pound; butter, 60 cents; coffee, 60 to 70 cents; tea, s1.40 to s1.60 per pound; oil, $1.05 to $1.15 per gallon; beans, 16 cents per quart; potatoes, s1 per bushel; soap, 20 cents per pound; eggs 60 cents per dozen, and other things in the same pro- portion.
 After 1866, when the extreme limit in prices was reached, they began to stead fly decrease As compared with present prices those of 1866 were fully 220 per centhigfler
 Some radical changes may be seen in the prices of flour now at $4.S0 per barrel and in 1862 when 1t was sS.25. or in 1865 at $20 per barrel. It is therefore now at it's lowest figure
 Take sugar also Tn 1862 it was 12 cents per pound; fin 1865, s3 cents; now 1t is 5 to 6 cents. Butter was l9 cents in 1850, but had advanced to 60 cents per pound in 1865.
 Oil is another leading staple which has shown wonderful fluctuations in price. Selling for $1.o5 to s1.15 per gallon in 1865, it has now decreased to 10 and 12 cents per gallon, a vast gain for the consumer. In 1850 it sold at 80 cents, in 1858 at $1 and in 1875 at 40 cents per gallon.
 Potato prices have been regulated largely by the yield. In 1850 they sold at 65 cents. in 1857 at $1 fin 1880 at 1.10 and in 1892 at 65 cents per bushel. This year they have been as high as SIPS to $2.25 per bushel.
 It will therefore be seen that all the above articles are lower now than thirty five years to forty years ago, and the same may be said of more than 100 other different groceries.
 For the most part, the grocers' profits have gradually decreased on all articles since the close of 1872. the panic season, nor is there any likelihood for a better condition of affairs for some time to come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31
PRAYER.

By Charles Francis Richardson. If when I lzneel to pray,
 With eager lips I say: 'Lord, give me all the things that I de-
 sire Health, wealth, fame, friends, brave
 heart, religious fire, The power to sway my fellow men at will And strength for mighty works to banish
 ill."
 In such a prayer as this the blessings
 l must miss.
 Or If I only dare
 To raise this fainting prayer: ''Thout seest, Lord, that I am poor and
 weak, And cannot tell what things I ought to
 seek: l, therefore, do not ask at all but still l trust thy bounty all my wants tosfill'- My lips shall thus grow dumb, The blessings shall not come. But if I lowly fall,
 And thus in faith I call: Through Christ, O Lord, l pray thee
 give to me Not what I would, but what seems best
 to thee Of life, of health, of service, and of
 strength, Until to thy full joy come at length"- My prayer shall then avail, l The blessings shall not fail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31
Marcnni's Final Iesf.

Marconi will soon be landed at Cape Breton from an Italian warship, where he will make his supreme test of ca bling across the sea without the aid of cables at all His plant at Glace Bay, Cape Breton, is thus described:
 A huge funnel shaped arrangement of wires, strung from four lofty columns of skeleton wood work and leading into a large receiving station, is the most con spicuous feature of a peculiar plant. Of these wires there are two hundred. fifty being attached to each of the bridges connecting the tops of the four towers. Each wire is composed of seven individ- ual strands of fine copper tightly bound together. so that the greatest possible amount of surface Is obtained from the copper employed. The limited capacity of the single vertical wire originally used in the Marconi experiments has thus been vastly increased. The Glace Bay station will be put in direct and, Mr. Marconi hopes, constant communication with the Poldhu station in Cornwall.
 No effort or expense has been spared in putting both stations in ex- cellent condition, and upon their eff ciency much depends. The fate of ex- isting systems both on land and at sea hangs in the balance.
 The world will await an announce ment from Glace Bay, for there the great problem of communication with out wires will be solved the one way or the other. The power of the land stations has been vastly increased, both the sending and the recording in struments having been greatly i'm proved The coherer. too, has been bettered. and the coherer is the key to the mysterious currents of the air The celebrated coherer will soon be on trial at both Glace Bay and Pold hu, and the scientific world waits with attentive ears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31

extremely considerate of her workpeople If they are not exactly on time she does not consider that a serius offense has been committed, if they are 10 or 15 min-i utes late at luncheon time she does not call them to account for 1t; if their work is well under way at night they are dismissed a little before the usual time, and are treated always with dig nifed amiability.
 As usual thing luncheon is brought by them. but in this house they are served with luncheon in a room set aside for this purpose. Almost constantly A band of men are about the house. They may be carpenters doing odd jobs or decorators, but whoever they are. this room has been set aside and there at noontime they are regaled with sub stantial luncheon. There too, are to be found books, papers and cards with which they may pass away the time after they have finished their meal
 At Mrs. Clarence Mackay's home there home nor the almost too lenient atmos- phere of the Fish work hours but a hap py medium is arrived at and authority assumes a mask that is, to say the least, not disagreeable. The old rule that is rarely ever broken is that of the work mems dress. He must wear white Mrs Mackay may then know just how neat the men are, while in dark suits it is im- possible to tell whether they are full of dust or not So a band of workmen clothed in white are seen in the house. and they mount the ladders and move about very silently in felt-soled shoes: you might think they were a band of hospital attendants rather than men who looked after the welfare of the house. Each man is enrolled here, too, but not in the manner employed in Mrs. Goulds home. The butler looks after this, and their names are taken simply as a mat ter of course, so that should anything go amiss in the work 1t may be easily. set down to the man who was responsible for 1t, and each mistake be "chalked" up against him. At the end of a day or week the man who has made the most blunders is put on the least particular work, and he who has made the least is promoted, so that there is something to strive for in this house, and pleas ant atmosphere Is created among the workmen, each doing his best, and know ing that this report will be sent to the contractor who employs him, as it al- ways is at the completion of each con- tract.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31
LILY WHITES AND WASHINGTON.

From the Chattanooga Times.
 The Washington correspondents are making a great ado over the part Booker T. Washington is alleged to have had in the appointments of several democrats in Alabama to federal offices by President Roosevelt. We have 1t on very good au- thority. the President himself, that he could get no satisfaction as to the quail ity of the men in his own party in Ala bama seeking appointments from the politicians, and he had to get his inror- nation from citizens he could trust who were not politicians and who had no axes to grind. Among the number of such ctzens was Booker T. Washington, who very frankly told the President the truth. corroborating the testimony of other disinterested citizens. Washington did not procure the appointments indi- cated. but his fndorsement had great weight, as it should have had The so- called lilly whites" will make small pro- gress with their new party organization by making war on such negroes as Wash ington, Council and men like them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31
Two Years Hence.

MT. Roosevelt is as good as nomi- mated in 1904. The republicans of these states are pledged to support him in the republican national con vention: Alabama, 23 delegates; Cal ifornia, 3O; Colorado, 10; Connecticut, IA; Delaware, $; Iowa, 26; Kansas, 20; Massachusetts, 32; Minnesota, 32; Missouri, 36; Montana, G.; New Hamp- shire, 8; New York, 7S; Pennsylvania, 63; Rhode Island, 8; Texas, 36; Utah, 6, and Washington, 10-a total of 42S delegates pledged to vote for him. He needs but 55 more. Illinois alone will cast 54 delegates, and that state is practically pledged to vote for him. He will then lack but 15 votes, and any politician knows that that num- Der can be procured in almost any state not named.
 The truth is, there will be no oppo- sition in the republican national con- vention to MT. Roosevelt's nomination. It will be by exclamation, and the se- lection of running mate will alone Interest the delegates, together with the construction of a platform
 The democrats should begin at once to discount MT. Roosevelt's nomina- Lion by the selection of man who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31

can meet him on even terms. Beyond all doubt the tariff and It's trusts will be the issue upon which the campaign of 1904 will be fought. and a solid democratic vote can be had upon that issue. There are no Dingley demo- crats. There are no pro-trust demo- crats. The campaign Of 1904 is rap Idly taking shape. and the chief ele- ment lacking is the name and nature and popularity of the democratic nom- inee. Perhaps Tuesday next will af- ford pointer in this matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31
Charles M. Schwab's Father.
From the Argonaut.

From the Argonaut.
 John Schwab, the father of Charles M. Schwab, Is the nabob of Loretto, a little Pennsylvania village on the crest of the Allegheny mountains He is the richest resident. it's only retired merchant. Sev- eral years before his son had managed to creep very far up the ladder in Braddock Schwab, by means of a livery business and farm got together a comfortable sum for use in his declining years. He Is now sixty-five years old, but his six feet of spare body remain as straight as an arrow, and not gray hair shows in his black hair and beard The mother is the opposite of her husband. She is typically German. Her figure is short and stout, her face round and full and her complex ion and hair fair. She is exceedingly af- fable. The villagers say that Charlie takes after his mother in everything ex- cept his nose,' which is prominent, Hike his father's."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31
IN HOTEL LoBBIHs.
Peppermint Corner.

Dealers in essential oils are interested in the probable future of the peppermint market. which has undergone violent fluctuations within the last week or two. as a result of corner.n said a chemist at the Morris last night.
 More than 75 per cent of the total crop of peppermint. spearmint and tansy of the world Is produced in a small section around Kalamazoo, Mich, and more than 90 per cent of the oil of peppermint in radius of 75 miles of Kalamazoo.
 "A month ago oil of peppermint was selling at g. 50 pound; now the price Is about $500 a pound. The quoted prices for the best grade is s5.20 but dealers say they know of no sales in quantity at more than S4.75.
 ''The large buyers hope by holding ofr to break the price. but those who are in control of the market believe they will be able to send the price even higher.
 "The man who has engineered the cor ner and controls the market is former Congressman A. M. Todd of Three Rivers, Mich.
 "It is generally acknowledged in the trade that he now controls 95 per cent of the output of the essential oil producing region of Michigan.
 There was apparently a sharp compe- tition for the production at fair prices when peppermint was worth not more than s1.50. When the trade discovered that the firm of A. M. Todd, Ltd, had se- cured all the holdings of other purchas- CTS it awoke to the fact that a corner had been effected. and prices began to rise.
 "The total crop in Michigan is estima- ted at 125O0O pounds It is hardly pos- sible that the output cost those who con-. tral the market one-half the present prices, so that unless purchasers can force a break the corner will net It's en- gineers more than $250,0O0."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-31
All Halloween Niuhi.

Tonight is All Halloween, and the customary freaks in the way of gate removals will, we fear, be extended to the unsightly front fence. These fences are plumb nuisances. defacing the beauty of the streets and injuring the reputation of he town. They are of all sorts of patterns except good patterns, generally out of repair, un- painted, uncouth and Unlocking enough to scare decent dogs.
 The Age-Herald has no wish to en- courage lawlessness, but If all the front fences were placed in one pile and a match were applied to that pile, the result would be a gain in beauty in our residential streets. The aesthet- ic would enjoy the effort, and there would be no one to mourn the loss of the ungainly front fence.
 1aWleSSnesS even Oh All hoiio"Son night is not however an advisable remedy, although few jolts in that direction might be beneficial. The trouble with moral suasion is its pro voking slowness. The front fence has long been due to fall, and yet it lin- gers to the disagreement of the en- tire town. It fingers not because it is wanted, but simply because 1t Is here and there is no one to lift it out of It's bed in A legal and proper manner.