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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-26
BRITAIN ADMITS ARMY'S FAULTS.
Royal Commission on South African War
Makes Its Report.
Special Gable Despatch to THE SUN.

Special Gable Despatch to THE SUN
LONDON. Aug. 25.-The report OF the
ROYAL Commission on the South African
war was issued this afternoon. 1t admits
that there were serious miscalculations
as to the nature OF the operations and the
home defense was dangerously weak
The report goes on to criticise the differ
ont arms Of the service rs well as the quail
itv OF the officers 1t commends the City
Imperial Volunteers and expresses regret
at the treatment of the Colonial troops.
The report also expresses dissatisfaction
NJ the permanent preparations of Great
Britain for an emergency and insists that
the British military system should con-
tain powers of expansion.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-26
Woman Killed by Lightning.

FIsHKILL LANDING, N. T., Aug. Is
Two severe storms met here at O'Clock
this afternoon. Lightning did great dam
age. Mrs Grief OF 874 East Fifty-thlrd
street, Manhattan, was instantly killed
while standing on porch with her husband
and her son on Mount Beacon. Seven
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-26
MIGHTY BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED.
Princess Louise Names the Powerful
British Vessel Dominion
Special Cabls Dr,petch 10 THE sU

Special Cdbs Despatch 10 THE sun,
LONDON, Aug. 25.The battleship Do
mlnIon was launched at Barrow-in-Furness
under the sponsorship of the Princess Louise
Today She represents the highest attain
ni"ht OF modern construction. Her guns
VIII be capable OF delivering 20, $50 pounds
OF metal in one broadsidc in one minute.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-26
MARRIED.

MALLoCK- MOERAN On the 18th inst. at the
parish church. Frimley. England. Arthur NJ.
Raymond Mallock. Captain Royal Artillery,
second OF Lieut.. Col. T. ]. Raymond NAL
lock, late Royal Fuslicrs, of Chmbcrley. Surrey.
to Lillian C. Moeran. elder daughter OF L, H,
Mocran OF New York.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-26
Gustaye Larronmet Dead.

sp,c,aI Gable Despatch to THs SUN.
PARIS, Aug. 25.-Gustave Larroumet,
member of the Institute OF France and
dramatic critic Of lie Temps In which place
he succeeded Francisque Sarcey, Ia dead.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-26
phlDDs-.d.racP.

Special Gable DsJpateh to TIE Sun
LONDON, Aug. 25,-It is announced that
marriage has been arranged between
I9hn Phipps and Margarita, daughter Of
M. r. Grace OF New York and London
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06
The Clarendon Chronicle is en-

The Clarendon Chronicle is en-
titled to credit for the following.
eve have bought US eighteen
hens and a rooster, and we didn't
take them on subscription either,
but paid the spot cash for them,
we are going to raise our own chcik-
ems and eggs. We are blasted tir-
ed of paying 2oc and CSC dozen
for eggs and newer getting any
chicken meat at all. We are a
Methodist when it comes to chicken,
a Baptist when it comes to jug
in the closet, an Episcopalian whe n
it comes to aristocracy and Presby-
terrain when it comes to the doctrine
of the final perseverance of the
saints. All editors are saints,
therefore they are all eternally
saved. We are going to practice
what we preach, and that is the
gospel of diversification."
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06
One Lady's Recommends
ton Sold Fifty Boxes of
Chamberlain's StOni
ach and Liver
Tablets.

have, I believe, sold fifty
boxes of Chamberlains Stomach
and Liver Tablets on the rec
ommendation of one lady here,
who first bought a box of them
about a year ago. She never
tires of telling her neighbors
and friends about the good
qualities of these Tablets. p.
M. SHORE, Druggist, Rochester,
Ind. The pleasant purgative
effect of these Tablets makes
them a favorite with ladies
everywhere. For sale by
Thompson Drug Co.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06
.usnsususususnsnsnsns
News Roll of Honor.

Under this heading will be found
the amounts received on subscript-
ion to the News during the past
week, and names of the parties
paying. This will serve as a re-
ceipt to those of our subscribers for
warding the money by mail.
T. F. GilIeland, $500.
Mrs. j. |. Williams, $I.oo.
T. F. Palmer, soc.
r. H. Seydler, High Hill, $I.oo
by c. w. Joehen.
w. l.. Foster, Ben Franklin, soc.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06
Boy Cured of Group in Fif-
teen minutes.

Chamberlains Cough Remedy
cured our little four-year old
boy of Group in fifteen minutes.
NV wife and I have used this
remedy in our family for the
past five years, having tried
many other kinds previous tc
this time, and can say that we
consider it far superior to any
other. We are never without il
in our home. FRANK HELLYER
Ipava, Ill. For sale by Thomp
ons Drug Co.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06
THE EUCALYPTUS TREE.

The News received this week
from one of its subscribers, [. w.
Schurman, of Terrell, Texas, a
letter inclosing clipping con-
corning the Eucalyptus tree and
Recommending it highly as a
growth peculiarly adapted to
the climate of the plains. The
article in question is taken from
the Scientific American and
while exceedingly interesting it
is too lengthy for the News to
publish in full at this time, but
the. following excerpts are given
as food for thought to those Of
! our citizens, who, like w. F.
Heller, are enthusiasts along
this line.
"As to the rapidity ofs,growth
and consequent value of the
eucalyptus as atwood supply, it
is interesting to know that when
they are five to seven years old,
groves of blue gum or mama
gum may be cut to the ground
for fuel and they may be cut
every SIX or eight years there
after. The yield from each cut
ting is commonly from fifty to
seventy-five cords of four foot
wood per acre. One seventeen
acre grove bet Los Angeles
and Compton set in 1880 and cut
for the third time in June, 1900,
produced l, $50 cords, an aver
age of eighty cords of four-foot
wood per acre. In California
the leaves as we'll as the wood
are utilized for fuel purposes. A
Los Angeles company is making
for market bricks composed of
blue gum leaves and twigs mix
ed with crude oil, and the pro-
duct is reported to be an excel
lent fuel for domestic use. The
entire tree is thus utilized.
"Word comes from American
consuls that eucalyptus seem
destined to revolutionize sylvi.
culture in France, Algeria, Italy,
Spain, Corsica, Portugal, Cape
Colony, and the Transvaal.
That the treeless regions of
South Africa are being covered
with fast-growing eucalyptus
forests is a matter of much sig.
nificance to that new empire Of
civilization.
Notwithstanding the trees
capacity for absorbing water
some varieties thrive on arid
plains. At the close of the sea
sou of 1900, the driest one of
which the Weather Bureau has
a record, trees of several species
of eucalyptus were observed
growing without irrigation in
Southern Arizona, and some of
them had not been irrigated for
many years.
susnsnsusr.nsn.usnsusr.u.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06
The Court room needs a Sc

The Court room needs set OF
State reports, Civil and Criminal,
and they should be furnished by
the county. 1t would not require
very great outlay to build up on
what the county already owns and
besides there is nothing the Com
missioners' Court is likely to pur-
chase that would return such divi-
dends to the tax payers.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06
Local..

The Baptist College trustee
have hopes of braking dirt on
the College site by next April.
The Fl. Worth Record is comm g
up to the best of them as news
paper.
Rev. J. T. Burnett.will take the
place of Rev. j. D. Ballard in the
pulpit at the Baptist 'church next
Sunday.
J. P. Crawford and family have
moved to Swisher county. J. P.
signified an intention of joining the
Kaffir corn force of Swisher.
The weather man for this
section has had the past few
days lnade-to order, which is
much better than the "hand- me-
downs" we sometimes get.
Mrs. J. |. Williams, of Waxa-
hachie assumed charge of the
Rogerson Hotel last Saturday, hav-
ing purchased the business from
w. H. Bates. Mrs. Williams is an
old hand at the hotel business and
we see no reason. why she should
not succeed.
The several church denomina
tons have decided to hold union
services on Thanksgiving day at
the Baptist church. A committee
has been appointed from each
church who will together prepare
program which will be printed in
next weeks News.
R. w. Foster and mother left
Monday evening for their old home
in Cook county, Where'Will expects
to spend some two weeks with
home folks. His mother who re-
turned home has been here for
some time past.
Mrs. J. S. Murphy left last Satur-
day for her old home in Kansas
City, where she will visit her pa
rents for about two months. J. S.
should be watched by his friends
until his wife returns.
Jno. A. Wommack and family
left Tuesday for Whitesboro. They
were accompanied as far as Wichita
Falls by Rev. J. D. Ballard, who
goes to Dallas to attend the Baptist
convention which convenes there
on the 9th.
Milton Pattillo left Tuesday for
Stamford, where he will make his
home in the future. Mr.. Pattillo
has efficiently filled the position of
book keeper at the Pattillo & Gam
bic dry goods and grocery en-
porium for year or more past.
Mr.. Wright, former partner of
the firm Wright & Gamble, sue
ceeds him in capacity of book
keeper.
| have purchased the business of
the Rogerson Hotel and shall con-
duct same at the old stand. Nice
well-furnished rooms with good
board, good service at SIS a month
or 81 week. Best accommoda
ton for the price in town.
MRS. j. |. WILLIAMS,
Proprietress.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06
Railroad Purchase.


A special to the Dallas News
from Austin. dated Oct. 3lst,
says:
"The warranty deeds convey
ing the properties of the Choc-
taw, Oklahoma and..Texas; the
Chicago, Rock Island and Texas
Railway Companies to the Chi
cago, Rock Island and Gulf
Railway Company, were filed for
record in the Secretary of States
office here today.
1.-THE sum named in the deed
as being paid for the Choctaw,
Oklahoma and Texas by the
Gulf company is 81, 200,O tor
the Chicago, Rock Island aud
Mexico, 81, 900, 1000, and for the
Chicago, Rock Island and Tex
as, $4,000, 500.
''The journal transfer of the
Rock Island lines inaaTexas to
the Chicago, Rock Island and
Gulf Railway Company is in
compliance with authority grant
ed at the last session of the
Texas Legislature"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
have purchased the Bakery,
restaurant and confectionery bust
ness heretofore operated by @. H.
Price, and have employed a first
class baker, H. F. Price of Corsi-
cana. will appreciate the patron
age heretofore extended the old
firm.
Very respectfully,
w. E. LAIR.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06
FOR
Fashionable DreSS.M Making,
See Mrs. Street.

Dress Suits, made-to-order and
ready-ttiade, Dress Skirts, made
to-order and ready-made. Shawls,
Fascinators and other notions too
numerous to mention.
Call and see me.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06

Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
at REDFEARN & Co.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06

All Ladies wanting long waist
Corsets will do we'll to call on
Mrs. Street, 3l-4t
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06
A PANHANDLE BOOK

The Southern Kansas y Co. of Texas has printed little book
descriptive of the Panhandle Texas and setting forth advantages
ohe homeseeker This book intended be used
developing and settling the country and pleased offer
friends for this Anyone interested requested to send
and addresses of friends in other to whom they would
keh book sent. We shall be pleased send these
books of prospective patrons by real agents
the Panhandle you copy send your and address,
DON A. SWEET,
Traffic Manager, Amarillo, Texas.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06

At the Board of Trade meeting
Monday night steps were taken
looking to the establishment of
brick yard. Canyon City made
brick are wanted tor the con-
struction of our new SO, 600
school building to be erected in
the spring, also for the Baptist
college buildings.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-06

Of the Friday and Saturday ship
ments G. c. Long got Is cars for
the National Livestock Commission
Co. and 9 cars of the Monday ship
ment.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17

years OF his life, was surely slippnIs
from him. He had written Me1Laa.
asking her pardon for his hasty wLfds,
and begging her to reconsider her de
cision, and, by marrying Hugh Danely.
save her aged parents from the humili-
alton of the poor farm
With his ear open to every sound
of the auctioneer's voice, he paced
nervously up and down the room.
Would his letter reach her in timez
And would she answer fsvorably? For
the hundredth time he stopped and
looked anxiously down tde road.
"Gonei"
Jobs head sank upon his breast as
he exclaimed. in the Bitterness of de-
pair, Il will laugh at your calamity
He felt that this was just retribution
for his heartless cruelty toward little
ZAP and Martha
Great was his surprise to learn that,
through a purchasing agency, the prop
erty had fallen to John, who had left
his service a few days previous.
Sitting on his front porch, with head
bowed in abject, hopeless despond-
ency, Martha's bela:ed reply was hand
ed him. With reviving hope and trem-
bling fingers he tore it open. Its first
sentence caused his heart to sink. 1t
read:
Dear Papa-I freely forgive you,
but cannot accommodate you by mar
ry Hugh"
He threw the inoffensive bit of
paper down and set his foot upon it as
if to crush it out of existence He
strobe up and down in a torrent OF
passion, muttering vengeance on the
whole human race
AS his anger subsidized his mood
changed. His mind went back to the
time when there was no happier home
than that of Job Allison's. His mind
wandered to the village churchyard
where lay four of his loved ones.
Martha was the only child left to him
and he had tried to barter away her
honor and her happiness. A choking
sensation came into his throat and
the hot tears coursed down his aged
cheeks as he remembered that he had
no longer a home to which he could
ever again welcome her.
His eyes rested upon the unfinished
letter; he picked it up and read:
"'Will be home tomorrow, to stay.
Have just married the pig headed
farmer the boy whom you drove from
home fifteen years ago. He calls
himself john
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
BOUND TO HAVE HER WAY.

Woman Comes From the Grave to See
Promise Is Kept.
remarkable ghost story is told in
the parish of Burton Agnes. England.
There years ago lived three sisters of
the name of Boynton. The youngest
of the three exacted the promise from
the others that on her death her head
should be placed on a table in the
hall. She met with an accident short
ly after, which resulted in her death,
Her sisters neglected their promise
to her and she was buried, head and
all. But on the night after the burial
the hall was thrown into terrible con-
fusion and the dead lady appeared to
her sisters with her head under her
arm. She upbraided them with their
neglected promise and, placing the
head ON the table, disappeared In the
morning the head was still there and
en- the coffin being dug up the body
was found to be headless. Any at
tempt to remove the head was fol-
lowed by disturbances during the
night. 1t was even buried at a dis
lance from the house, but was re-
stored by the ghost. Eventually the
head disappeared, but the disturb
ances continue nightly in the hall.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17

Demands of conventional fashion are
about to exterminate the whole fam
lily of lizards in the United States and
to make deep inroads upon serpents
of many kinds.
Beginning with the dainty little
chameleon. held by the tiny gilded
chain that is the mark of his captivity,
up to the handbag made of the skin of
the diamond back rattlesnake, and car
ried at the wrist of the woman shop
ping, it looks as if the reptilian family
of the twentieth century is doomed.
Even to the scientist and the econo-
mist some of the representatives of
these creeping and crawling things of
the earth pass into oblivion without
regret; to the masses, even, there are
others that will be missed because of
their harmlessness, their vivid chang
ing colors, and their disposition to
live their lives in those waste places
where so few other things of life are
to be found.
The passing of the alligator from
the rivers and Swamps of the south
seems to be more surely and quickly
certain than does the extinction of
others of the lizard tribe. Years ago
he was the despised and feared of all
the reptiles that came to the view of
the negro in the southern swamps.
The horrible water moccasin was moth
ing to the southern darby as compared
to the alligator, even though death
from the snake might come the quick
er and the reptile be lying ten to one
in numbers among the logs and in
the mud of the sluggish streams and
bayous. The gator always was the
armored evil one to the darby, but
the southern white man, hunting in
the same swampland for deer and bear
found the eye of the alligator an eX-
cellent target for his rife. and in the
tooth of the saurian beautifully
adapted charger for measuring the
gunpowder behind the ball in his muZ-
zle-loading gun.
Thus through all the years the alli-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
{. j O III n -
BY 6. H. McCAUSLAND
Copyrighted 1905 By The Authors Publishing Company
"Need some heinz"

Need some nelp!
Job Allison Strengthened himself
from his stopped position, leaned upon
his scythe and looked critically at his
interrogation.
What kin We do?''
The young man placed his hand
upon the top rail of the fence and
sprang lightly over. saying carelessly:
'tOh, almost anything"
Again the farmer scrutininzed him
from head to foot. His lip gave a
slightly disdainful curl as he said, sar-
castically:
Yell find a scythe hangin' in tibet
tree yander; git it an see eff We kin
keep outen my way"
The young man soon returned, and
taking the proffered soythe-stone from
Jobs hand, drew it along the edge of
the blade with a regularity, rapidity,
and recklessness that made Jobs eyes
open. Then, swinging into position,
he asked: Ready"
Farmer Allison nodded, rolled his
sleeves bit higher, spat upon his
hands, and ordered: Lead out"
The stranger led out" with a pace
Job Allison had not tackled in twenty
years. For dozen rods their
scythes swung with perfect rhythm.
Then the young mans athletic training
came into play and in a few moments
Allison's paintings sounded in his ears
like the puffs of receding locomotive
and, finally ceased.
As he threw his scythe out, at the
end. Allison turned and looked at the
swath, straight as a line; the path
smooth. clean and regular, then again
critically eyed the stranger.
What mout yer name be?"
john
Job had always prided himself on
not being lone of them fellers whose
tongues wag twice to their brains
once" He was not quite satisfied with
the answer, yet there was that mys-
terious something about this man
that checked further inquiry.
We'll. John, We kin stay"
Three years later he had learned
these facts about that hired man:
He was an interchangeable worker, an
expert farmer. honest, reliable. and
his name was John"
Up to ten years before the coming
Of John, Job had been a prosperous
farmer. A few bad moves on the mar
ket chess-board, q few scourgings in
Solomon's school, learning that HE
~Ao~ 20 q surety AOi d Stl anger Sudli
smart for it" and his fine three-hun-
dred acre farm had dwindled to sixty.
Il tell you, Marier, I'm agin it-ever-
lastingly and eternally agin' it. Fer
why? Because I'm getting old and
can't work the farm many years
longer. and I'm opposed to Marthy
narryin' any pig-headed. highferlutin
patent farmer AZ don't know the diff
ference af~een q post-ho and a pig
track. And hun a-settfn' up on a high
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17

gator has been hated and hunted and
oeSpised; but after it was discovered
that the hide of the creature was
worthy of a place in the economy of
civilization, and after the adaptability
of its skin was shown in artistic hand
bags, valises and suit cases, alligator
hunting became a business and it has
continued a business until already the
alligator is becoming extinct. Nearly
10000 skins of these creatures were
taken in Florida between the years
1880 and 1894, and even now in some
sections of the state pot hunter may
bring in a score of skins from nights
hunt.
But gradually these skins are be-
coming smaller and fewer. A skin
that is two feet long must have come
from an animal that was at least Is
years old, while one that is twelve feet
long is supposed to have come from
a saurian seventy-five years after it
first broke the shell of the mother
egg 1t is believed now that the alli-
gator is one of the longest lived of
all creatures, not excepting the ele-
plant, and it seems that the creature
grows from the time of it's Matching
to the end of it's life. A big ALI
gator for museum purposes may be
worth $40; alive, for a menagerie, he
may bring his captor double this
amount of money. But for the skin
of the ordinary gator the hunter gets
about rs cents. Recently baby alli-
gators have come into demand as
curios. and in the taking of them,
hunters have dug up the nests of the
creatures and have put the eggs into
incubators of hot sand, thus insuring
the market supply, but making the
fate of the saurian more certain. AS
soon as the alligator has broken the
shell it is killed and mounted.
In the rattlesnake of the several
varieties the skin of the diamond back
is most valuable, and likewise this
species grows to greater lengths. In
the desert regions of the great south
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
HIS SMOOTH TALK WASTED.
Book Agents wfIes Lost on the
Stronq-Eyed Woman.

Book Agents WfIes Lost on the
Stronghold Woman.
The sadfaced young man knocked
timidly at the door of the house, and
presently it was opened by a woman
with Il stony eye.
II beg your pardon" said the
sad-faced young man in confusion. Il
see l have made a slight mistake. AS
a matter of fact, 1 have here a most
remarkable work on How to Become
Beautiful and Remain So It's price
is 81, and But l can see, madam,
that such a work would be useless to
you who have the secret already. Per
haps, however, there may be another
Of your sex in this house to whom the
priceless book would be of value?"
eyes, said she of the stony eye;
there is.''
And she disappeared.
In few moments she returned, and
with her came a fifty-pound bulldog,
with bay-window teeth.
The sad-eyer young man slid down
those steps like a thunderbolt in strict
training, and as he flew he heard the
voice of the stony-faced woman:
'.This is the only one in this house
your books any good to. Next time
you come, talk to her, and don't try
blatherskiting me. I'm too fought"