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SECRET SOCIETIES.

II SECRET SOCIETIES.
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BOARD AND ROOM.

MODIFY furnished front room; Satls,
phone good hoard 402 Crawford. -
FOR RENI-Furuished aud unfuruishpd
rooms. With or wltaOut beard. lis Pres.
ton svcnuC. II
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FOR SALE OR RENT First class hotel.
with bar connection; best location In Aus
tin. Texas; possession glyca January /,
1903 Inquire at Gold6cCk Is Kuhne's
Austin. Texas -
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sITUATAoNs--MALE.

POSITION BY Industrious young coiored
man as hostlcr OF to make himself gen
Grady useful around house. Address e9db.
thls odice. n
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Attest g. a Hlctok, Secretary.
The Granger Georgetown, Austin and san
Antonio Railway Company,
By G.. ". Jones, Vice President.
Attest O. ". Jones, Secretary.
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NIGHT calls made at day rates. Wilson 5
llnnk Dino. phone 100 Pr
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE for lands, au
up-to-date confectionery and soda water
business, average sales $500 per month,
Invoices 5000 For particulars, address
1863. this office -
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A Cues tionabIe Favor.

1t is hard for those on the shady
side of so to have proper apprecia-
ton of new literary lions or have
much patience with the younger gen
Grafton in their wild enthusiasm over
these same lions. A certain old lady
in Philadelphia was no exception.
One afternoon an elderly lady and
her niece We're standing on a corner
waiting for a car.
Just as they stepped forward to
board a car a bicyclist dashed by.
The young girl had barely time 10
draw her aged companion out Of
harms way.
"Oh, auntie!' she exclaimed in an
awestruck whisper, do you know
who it was who nearly ran over us?
Why, it was Richard Harding Davis. B"
"Estelle," said the old lady severely,
you talk as if ne had done US a favor.
All noticed was that he had very big
feet
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An Inch of Rain on the Ocean.

Lieutenant Maury has computed the
following effect of single inch OF
rain falling upon the Atlantic Ocean.
The Atlantic includes an area of 25.-
600 900 of square miles. Suppose an
inch of rain to fall upon only one
fifth of this vast expanse- It would
weigh $50 900 millions of tons, and the
salt which as water is held in solution
in the sea, and which. when the water
was taken up as vapor was left behind
to disturb equilibrium, weighed &c.
600 900 of tons more. or nearly twice
as much as all the ships in the world
carry at a cargo each. 1t might fall in
an hour, or it might fall in a day;
but, occupy what time it might in fall
ing, this rain is calculated to exert so
much force-which is inconceivably
great-in distributing the equili brium
of the ocean. If all the water dis
charged by the Mississippi river dur
ing the year were taken up in one
mighty measure and east into the
ocean at one effort. it would not make
a greater disturbance in the equilib-
rum Of the sea than would the fall
OIL rain supposed. And yet SO gentle
are the operations of Nature that
movements so vast are unperceived.
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Reautifnl Queen Natalie.

Gossip says that beautiful Queen
Natalie is an enthusiast on the old
picturesque fashion Of pitcher carry
ing She takes frequent and regular
exercise, with a heavy pitcher on her
head Her greatest beauty is her neck.
and her head, which is placed on her
shoulders after the manner of the
Venus of Milo. 1t is a common sight
to see her majesty, accompanied by a
dame d'honneur, at about O'Clock in
the morning. briskly walking and cas-
lily balancing a shapely weight on her
queenly head Naturally the head ana
neck acquire the correct poise by walk
ing with something on her head. but a
gait from the hips is also acquired.
The graceful Hindu girl can bear a
pitcher on her head, simply because
she moves from the hips, instead OF
from the waist-a mode of walking
which the necessity OF pitcher carry
ing probably originally included.
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RELICS OF OLD DAYS.
Valuoble Articles Found in Homes of Old Settlers
K
Especial Letter.)

!: :: !: ! !: !:
~ HE old county of Ottawa,
IN Canada, subdivided some few
years ago, was originally set
tied in great part by refugees
vi from Ireland. who left the
old sod at the time OF the
Ribbon men" disturbances
Many of these were OF GOOD
families, tracing their descent back
through generations, and brought
with them heirlooms which would now
be OF great value to antiquarians co4lo
their descendants be induced to part
with them.
One aged couple inhabit1ng ter
ribly old shanty in the township or
Low, with not carpet or bit OF pot
terry in the house. sat down with their
visitor to dinner at table set with
a wonderful snowy damask tabiecloth
and with silver dish covers and cut
lery of undoubtedly great value. Ano
on napery and silver was elegantly
traced an earl's coronet.
BELONGED to my own old mother, so
II did" explained the dame, though
how it all came into the ancestors pos
session did not appear. And remem-
bering several things about the ups
and downs of families and houses IN
the distressful land, it did not seem
wise to push inquiry very far
At another house in the same town
ship the good wife was exhibiting the
fine Irish linen her grandmother had
woven with her own hands. But
dainty though it undoubtedly was, she
could not Herewith win the attention
of her guest from the inlaid cabinet OF
ancient workmanship, wherein 1t was
kept.
Its bit OF an heirloom that same,
she explained; lit was Jim's grand
father give it to him when he died.
and a king or maybe it was big LORD,
I don't know, had given it to the old
man to keep his papers for him, when
be came over to America to hight Tor
Col. Washington again the dirty old
Parliament. Me got any of the papers
! No. but l got tin dollars for DIG
bundle Of the old culch from wee
| Slip of a young chap as wanted TO
| print a book about them. the time the
railroads was building. Tin dollars
what do We think of that now?"
"Ah, git along" she laughed, when
told that the cabinet was worth good
| many tens its just a fine chest II
makes for the linen. and niver a bl'
will l ever part with it, anyway. May
be III be after leaving it to We, when
die
The greatest treasure in another
house near by is a short, undated note
wretchedly written on page tori
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Queen Louise.

conqueror, the people urged the Queen
as last resort to make a personal ap-
peal to the conqueror to save them
from humiliation. trusting to her
striking beauty and lofty character to
move the heart of the invader. The
latter, apprised of her mission, re-
ceived her brusQuely and in no wise
was moved to relent toward her sub
jects. Louise was crushed by the fail
ure and the cruel treatment Of Ma
poleon, who even assailed her good
name. The Prussians took TO heart
the insult to conciliate the invaded.
In 1910. while on a visit to the Duke
of Sterlitz, father of Louise, the Queen
passed away at SO. Her ashes repose
alongside those of her husband in one
of the worlds handsome mausoleums
on the grounds of the palace of Char
Iottenburg in Berlin. 1t is constructed
of white stone with a brown marble
facade. Passing within. flight of
steps brings one to a heroic figure of
an angel Overhead is a window OF
the most beautiful shade of purple.
This reflects back an exquisite hue
on the faces of the marble figures in
the vaulted room. These consist of
Frederick William, of Louise, of Will
liam l. and his conSort Augusta. Be
low the floor the bodies lie, while the
sarcophagi sustain the figures carved
to represent them. At the back of the
room is a marble altar, over which
hangs a crucifx and painting of the
Almighty receiving Frederick and
LouiSe in heaven. The Sarcophagus
of Louise is strikingly beautiful. The
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p,sturbed Nice Observatory.

curious lawsuit is pending be-
tween the Nice observatory and a local
electric tram car company using the
Thomson Houston system. The OBJ
servatory authorities say that the
electric instruments in their magnetic
department were so much disturbed by
the electricity of the tram cars that
they were obliged to transport all the
instruments to another observatory
ON Mount Mounier, at a cost of $4,000.
They contend that the company
ought to pay the cost and the COM
pany is fighting the case.-New York
Hera lid
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TO flourish a set of high-flown senti-
ments that would give great satisfac-
ton to q beast quite at ease, but as
one observes who was seldom mistaken
in the theory of life, The heNrt know
eth its own sorrow, and a stranger in
termeddleth not Herewith. Among
some distressful emergencies that l.
have experienced, l have ever laid this
down as my foundation of comfort.
that he who has lived the life OF an
honest man has by no means lived in
vain
With every wish four your welfare
and future success, I am, my dear sir,
sincerely yours, Robert Burns
"Ellesland. May &c. 1889.
ITO Mr.. James Hamilton. Grocer,
Trongate, Glasgow"
After sighting such a treasure as this
the signatures Of Argyle, Baltour
and other mobiles who took for them
selves the names which belong tc
whole sections of the country did no,
seem worth noticing, although the lit.
| tie trunk contained many of them. The
| poets letter is worth more than stacks
| of them, for time proves the immense
| truth the peasant poet wrote in the
| lines:
The rank is but the guinea stamp,
The mans the gowd for a'hat."
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CLAD IN HIGH HAT AND pAJAMAs.
Qaosr Combination the Fond Father
Had to Wear.

Q10or Combination the Fond Father
Had to Wear.
Very young children" said the
proud father OF one, ARE creatures Of
habit. They also associate certain OBJ
3ects with certain things. On Sunday
afternoons always take my baby out
walking; that is, do the walking and
the baby is carried, for he's too little
to walk himself, you know. On Sun
day afternoons also wear my high
silk hat, and the baby has come to as
sociate the hat with the walk.
Last week he had several very Sc
we're attacks of collie, and I had to get
up and pace the floor with him. Some
how or other this didn't seem to have
the desired effect, and all my talk
about going 'day-days' only irritated
him the more. He would scream I'M
intelligibly and point to my bare head
Suddenly it dawned upon me that the
silk hat was needed to complete his
happiness. l put it on and walked
about with him and the effect was
magical He fell asleep at once and
each succeeding night has brought the
same result.
Il dare say l cut a very ridiculous
figure in high hat and pajamas," con-
cluded the fond father, according tc
the Philadelphia Record, and am
rather troubled by the thought tina,
l shall have to keep it up"
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Ancient Travelling Outfit.

from note book and signed We'll
inston." In it some soldier is thanked
for 'venturing amidst considerable
danger" to perform a certain service
for him. and he expresses regret for
an injury received which it is to be
hoped will not prevent your serving
our King and country" in the future.
Had the note, probably written on a
battlefield, born a celebrated, say a
Waterloo date, the old man who treas
ured it would have been able to make
ready and lucrative sale of the famous
Generals autograph. Its owner in
sisted that the paper "smelt strong of
nowder." but his visitor thought it was
only a faint odor of stale tobacco,
which hung about the relic.
Speaking of these antiquities one
night TO an intelligent Scotch settler
in Mosham, an adjoining township, LED
to his producing a tiny trunk full OF
mustv old papers and curiosities. some
of them of great value from the arch
geological point of view. There were
old guild and borough tickets bearing
famous names. admitting the heads Of
the family to certain rights and priv
lleses in the city of Glasgow, running
hack over two hundred years.
One newspaper of 1897 contained an
account of the execution of some OF
the mutineers of the More and
dispatches from Admiral Jervis and
others describing their success abroad
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PROPERLY Placed.

The head of a well-known shipping
firm in this country received a letter
from a millionaire Swiss banker, ask
ing him to try to help his son get a
Job in some mercantile or shipping
house, to learn the business. The
shipping firm head shortly wrote back
to the doting parent:
Dear Sir: Your son has arrived. !
have given him employment at my Of
fees at IS week with others of his
class. One of these young men has
just bought 100000 yacht and anoth-
er comes to the Office in an $4,000 au-
tomobile. think your son will find
his surroundings congenial."
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Emperor william L and Frederick.
figure of the Queen is lying thereupon
as if she had fallen asleep.
Three children were born to this
Queen-F'rederick William IL, who
succeeded his father on the throne and
who died childless in 1861; William L.,
who followed his brother on the
throne, and Charlotte, who married
Nicholas l. of Russia. William was
the typical Prussian!. He was most
devoted to his mother, and before 60
ing to war with France in 1870 visited
her tomb and there promised to
avenge Napoleon's treatment of her.
William I. had his revenge in plenty
upon the nephew of his mothers ira
Queer Napoleon Ill. the biggest
humbug of the nineteenth century, in
gloriously surrendered at Sedan, and
William was crowned Emperor of
Germany in the royal French palace
at Versailles. Williams affection for
his mother remained to the last, and
in his apartments at the castle of Ba-
belsgurg, in Potsdam marble bust
of Louise is a chief adornment. Fred
erick, his successor, held sway only a
brief time. His incurable malady,
cancer, carried him off quickly. He
vas a model sovereign and a good hus-
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HE recent visit OF Prince
III Henry of Prussia, brother of
Emperor William, makes APP
propriate this allusion to the
from which he
N springs: He is a scion OF the
rayal house Of Prussia, which
was founded by the elector
Of Brandenburg. III was left to the 18th
elector, Frederick William. to enlarge
his dominion and make Prussia SOW
ereign> duchy. His SOP Frederick was
the first to assume the little of King OF
Prussia. This was done with the con-
sent Of the German emperor. His son,
Frederick William 1. left to his son,
Frederick the Great (17A0-s6), $6,o00.-
900 above his debts and an army Of
20. 600 men, the best disciplined in Eu-
rope. He lifted Prussia{ from COM
parative1y nnimportant state to be one
OF the great powers. He wrested Sile-
STA from Austria and resisted the com
bined armies of Russia, Austria and
France. Everywhere the crafty Fred
erick was successful If HTS ideas had
been followed Germany Instead Of
tress Of the high seas for the past 80
yc6I6. 111S 8uCCSSySI WIS Nae hCpASW,
Frederick William IL. who reigned IL
years. His abilities were Of the COM
monplace but in the third and infa-
nous partition OF Poland he shared
and added 10000 square miles to his
possessions. He was succeeded by his
son. William I'll (17s7-ls4eh, who. by
his vacillattng policy isolated Prussia
among the powers and left him alone
IN his struggle with Napoleon, who
proceeded to punish him in exasper-
ating style. His consorr, the beautiful
Queen Louise, daughter of Duke
Charles OF ,Mecklenburg-S terlita, did
much to retrieve the mistakes OF her
husband. Her nobility Of character nc
less than her remarkable beauty made
her the idol OF the Prussians.
When the armies OF Napoleon had
crushed the allied European powers
and Prussia lay at the mercy OF hel
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Old style of Making Candles.

in the bitter war which was then rag
ing. Here and there a name had been
UNDERSIGNED giving the reason, doubt
less, for the preservation of the paper.
The light of some home had probably
gone out when that now tattered old
newspaper had brought to the house
the brief mention of the death OF
father, son, or husband.
There were several coins in a good
state of preservation principally from
Eastern countries. Noticeable among
these were some of the old coinage OF
Siam, Jumps of silver about the size
and shape of the first Joint of the
thumb, with an add official stamp at
one of the ends. And number of
cowry shells strung together showed
that there had been some connection
with the African coast, where such
shells were until recent years the only
currency.
But the most precious find to one
of literary turn was made while turn
ing over a large bundle of receipts
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Japanese Honesty.

A writer VITO has travelled much in
the orient declares that with all the
good qualities of the japanese their
commercial morality is not above re-
proach. He says that recently, while
at his home in England, he wished to
obtain a particular strain Of chrysan-
themum and, having friend in the
land of chrysanthemums, asked him to
procure a packet of the seeds. The
seeds were duly delivered wrapped in a
most artistic cover. They were sown
in a box, watched with anxiety and
produced a very satisfactory crop of
carrots.
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Rough on the Writer.

professional wit was one day dis
cussing the mental incapacity OF edi-
tors with the late H. c. Bunn2r.
Now" said he, what do you think
of this: l used to write serious and
comic matter for a certain daily which
paid me $40 column for the humor-
Gus stuff and SO for the serious. One
day the editor asked me to mark my
comic things &C. and my serious sto-
ries s. with a blue pencil. that he
might tell them apart. Wasn't that
pretty tough on him.
No replied Bunner. with a smile
and a twinkle in his eye, but ii was
pretty rough on you.
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from tradesmen in Scotland, which,
with true native thriftiness. Mr.. Ham
ilton preserved among his family pa
pers. This was an unpublished letter
from none other than Robbie Burns
himself. showing the famous poet at
his best, as sympathizing, kindly
man of heart. Following is an exact
copy of the precious document:
"R. Burns, Dr., to G. Turnbull. for
five copies of his poems at Is. 6d.-l2s.
Cd.
Dear Sir l send you by John
Glover, csS - r. .he above AMOUNT for
Mr. Turnbull, as 1 suppose you have
his address.
II would fain offer, my dear sir. a
word of sympathy with your mfsfor-
tunes, but it is tender thing, and
know not how to touch it. 1t is easy
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The Thought Unanswe cradle.

A little girl who was being ''sassed'
by another little girl was holding in
splendidly and she continued to keep
her peace. while the other little girl
said, apparently, all there was to say
on the subject.
You We're a nice little girl" per
son who had overheard the converse
ton observed, mot to talk back to
that other little girl"
We'll" the little imp answered.,
you see, if | had told her what |
thought of her she would have had a
chance to answer back, but as she
doesn't know what think she cannot
do anything about it, can she?"
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GERMAN ROYAL LINE.
Many Notable Characters Of the Present 'oenzellera
Dynasty in History.
nasty in History.
Especial Letters.)

band, rarely among kings, and his
going was widely lamented. The pres
ent Emperor, who began his reign as
an eccentric, has developed into a re-
markable ruler. He speaks seven Ian.
guages fluently and writes in each
with facility. Prince Henry, brother
OF the Emperor, married his cousin,
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Lord Roberts, replying to a CORE
spondent who suggested using corps
of veterans for British home defense,
says he appreciates the patriotism of
the proposal, but is of opinion that
soldiers who have served their coun-
try may now look to younger men to
defend it
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Col. Nicholas Smith, son-in-law OF
Horace Greeley and the handsomest
man in the world according to en-
thusiasts of generation ago, has been
evicte~ from a New York fiat with
his daughters for nonpayment of rent
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HE old county of Ottawa,
Canada, subdivided some few
years ago, was originally set
tied in great part by refugees
J from Ireland. who left the
= old sod at the time of the
Ribbon men" disturbances.
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Rooms and z, Morse Buil6tn9
OFFICE HOURS to ,. =.
Residence, North Main street. X.
Telephone. -.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1902-10-24
A.

Michael A. Gerber,est le caDdi-
dat d6mocratique pour 6chevin du
Ter quarter. NJ. Gerber est lami
de louvrier ct il a toujours en-
ploy6 DIES ouvriers faisant partie
de lunion. CONNIE homme DAT
flares il figure parmi les premiers.
Ayant reside dams le premier
quarter depuis 35 ans il est mutt
]e de parler de sa position sociale.
La carri9re de M. Gerber SQUIRT
ra Investigation la plus mjnutieu-
Sc ct nos compatriotes du Ter
quarter ne peuvent Sc tromper en-
votant pour M. Gerber ct en- enga-
geant leurs amis q faire de meme.