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The Western news., 1903-01-21

squares one way and twenty-five the
other-will be included In the project.
The work, If properly rushed, ought to
be accomplished in two years. The
earth for the filing will be brought
from the mainland and will consist Of
about $500 train loads of twenty cars
each. The estimated cost will be ST.
100000. The funds to prosecute the
work are to be raised by the Legisla-
ture allowing the city Of Galveston to
divert for fifteen years it's State taxes
from the treasury into a fund to he
used solely for grading the city. The
last session RENTED the taxes for two
years for this purpose, and it Is prac-
tically certain that the bill will be
adopted in full at the next session. The
argument in favor Of the plan is that
there can be no objection on the part
Of the taxpayers Of the State, because
1t Is not a direct appropriation. the
money being used coming solely from
Galveston, and that afterward the
vastly increased property values result
ing from. it will more than repay the
State for what 1t misses during the Pc
riod the taxes are allowed to lapse.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

base and I'VE feet at tho top. The top
Of the embankment for thirty-dve feet
back Of this gigantic wall will be pro-
tected by vitrihed brick laid on edge,
and this, when surrounded BY an iron
railing, will provide a driveway thirty
feet wide and sidewalk ave feet
wide. It will be ornamented By q fringe
Of Bermuda grass. This IL the most
pretentious piece Of engineering Of the
sort ever attempted In the United
States. The excavation win require
the removal Of 100000 wagon loads of
sand; there will be used in its eonstruc-
ton $500 carloads Of piling and 500
carloads Of concrete; 100000 tons Of
rock will be hauled from quarry 286
miles distant, and 12O tons Of re-enforc-
Ing rods will be utilized. It will take
400 men a year and a half to do the
work, and In order to complete the Job
In this time every kind Of labor-sa wing
machinery that has been invented for
use In work Of this kind will be en-
ployed. The estimated cost of the
great undertaking will be 1924, ,735.
The original elevation Of the grounds
upon which the city was located in
1888 was in many places but little
above high tide. This condition was
helped somewhat by filling In the low
places with sand from the ridges along
the island and with dirt from the main
land. The extreme lowness Of the land
was what caused the trouble when the
high water came. 1t IS proposed to
remedy this also by filing the entire
city from the sea wall on the gulf side
Of the bay. The fill will graduate from
twelve feet down to one. A district
covering 924 city blockS-fnrty two
The Western news., 1903-01-21

piles Of wreckage have been cleared
away and the scars of the fatality re-
moved. Miles of blocks Of orderly
houses and modern stores have risen
from the sand. The splendid palms
have been replanted and the beautiful
oleanders are blooming again. Calves
ton the new looks little tho worse for
its mishap, and when projected I'm
provements have been completed will
far outshine the Galveston OF old.
The Great Sea Wall.
The great enterprise which is on ev-
cry tongue is the sea wall, by means OF
which it is calculated to shut out any
further encroachment Of tho sea and
restore the confidence Of the hmid IN
the safety Of the city. 1t Is not at all
likely that another such storm will
visit this part Of the coast In a hum
dred years, but II another does come 1t
will find an insurmountable barrier
surrounding Galveston. Work has al
ready begun upon huge concrete wall
three and one-third miles in length,
which will be seventeen feet above
mean low tide. sixteen feet wide at the
The Western news., 1903-01-21

mills and farm property, ana amount
in the aggregate to $12.767, 900, of
which $3,91O,OOO was in Oregon and
$S,S57 600 in Washington. The area
burned over in Oregon was about 17O,-
600 acres, and upon this area there
was loss on farm buildings, stock,
equipment, school houses and bridges
of 1857 900; on sawmills and manufac-
tured forest products Of $149,OOO; and
OIL standing timber, $3,4O4, 600. The
area burned over in Washington was
larger than that in Oregon, amounting
to 434, 900 acres. The loss on farm
property was $6O7, 900; on sawmills and
manufactured forest products, $751;
900; on standing timber, $S S.O69,OoO. One
cause of this great destruction of prop
erty was the dryness Of the summer
and prevailing strong east wind. But
even under these circumstances there
would not have been such destruction
had it not been for carelessness, which
was the direct cause. The report states
that in many instances the fires smol-
dered for long time and no one paid
QCLenClOn 10 LQcn. MdHy DldZcS StAIl-
ed from the unextinguished camptires
of berry pickers or hunters, and others
resulted from careless burning of
slashings." The bureaus agent reports
that nearly all of the fires could have
been extinguished before they became
serious, but either no one was In the
vicinity, or, If there were any persons
there, they would not go out of their
way to stop the fires. Reasonable pre-
caution on the part of individuals
would have prevented the loss Of mill
ions. In the sections where govern
ment rangers are in control there were
no serious fires. The evident lesson
which the State governments of Oregon
and Washington should learn is the
necessity Of an efficient forest patrol.
Had there been such probably none Of
these serious fires would have occur
red. AS much of the wealth of the two
States Is in their standing timber and
lumber products the necessity for such
patrol ought to be apparent. 1t is
useless to expect that individuals will
be careful about starting or extinguish-
ing fires. or even care how much prop
erty Is destroyed.
The Western news., 1903-01-21
EPILOGUE TO ASOlANDO.

At the midnight, in the, silence of tho
sleep-time,
When you set your fancies free,
Will they pass to whereby death, fools
think, imprison'd-
Low he lies, who once loved you,
whom you loved so,
Pity me?
Oh, to love so, be SO loved, yet so mis-
taken!
What had on earth to dot
With the slothful, with the mawklsh, the
unmanly?
Like the aimless. helpless, hopeless. DID l
Being-who?
One who never turned his PACK out
march'd breast forward.
Never doubted clouds would break.
Never dream'd; though right were worst
ed, wrong would triumph.
Held we fall to rise, are baffied to night
better,
Sleep to wake.
No, at MONDAY in the hustle of mans
Greet the unseen with cheer.
Bid him forward, breast and back as
either should be,
"Strive and thrive" cry "speed-7NSht
on, fare ever.
There as here."
Robert Browning.
The Western news., 1903-01-21
JOHN ChINAMAN'6 WAY.

How a Customer Got HE Laundry
After Two Years.
The ways Of the Chinaman are mys-
terious. While there is 40 new thought
In this statement, It's truth can be
vouched for by young Washington
ian who has just recovered his bundle
Of laundry from downtown shop pre-
sided over by a child-like celestial.
Nearly two years ago he carried
selection Of soiled linen to the China
man to be laundered. He received
little yellow piece of paper with some
queer marks on It. At the end Of tho
week he looked for the bit Of yellow
paper, but could not hnd It. He had
been to the laundry several times and
supposed the Chinaman could identify
his goods without the ticket. The ce-
lestial shook his head and demanded
the ticket.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

The suggestion of Pension Commits
sioner Ware that 800 superannuat ted
clerks In his bureau be retired upon a
civil service pension and 100 young
men put In their places Is a mathemat-
ical argument for the substitution, IL
not for the pensionins. ITO discharge
them in large numbers when they te-
come unserviceable," says the commits
sioner, would cause very great pain
and suffering" This sympathetic re-
gard for the clerks In the federal de-
partments has before now been obtrud-
ed upon public attention. 1t will occur
to the ordinary worker in private life
that If he has to provide against pain
and suffering In his old age the EN-
ployes Of the government, enjoying
much more stable and less irksome en-
ployment, might be expected to do the
same.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

A month later another visit was
made to the shop, but the Chinaman
was unrelenting. Six months later, sup
posing the uncalled-for package would
be recognized by the Chinaman by
reason Of its having been there 80 long,
he made another attempt to get it. 1t
was then discovered that the shop had
changed hands, and the new proprietor
only looked perplexed when a demand
was made for the laundry. The disap-
pointed customer then abandoned his
pursuit Of the lost package.
This all happened nearly two years
ago. Recently he got out a light
weight overcoat for use during chilly
evenings, and, thrusting his hands into
Its pocket pulled out yellow laundry
ticket. He at once proceeded to the
Chinaman's shop, and, as If he had
left bundle there only few days.
previously, laid down his ticket. The
Chinaman glanced at the mysterious
mark, and, reaching under the coun-
ter, hauled up the long-lost laundry
without a moments hesitation.
The recoverer Of the supposedly lost
goods should have been grateful. says;
the Washington Star, but he was not,
and proceeded to say some things to-
the Chinaman that would not make,
pleasant reading II reproduced
The Western news., 1903-01-21
THE NEW GALVESTON
HER SPLENDID RECOVERY THE
MARVEL o. THE AGE,
To Be Protected in the Future by a
Gigantic Sea Wall and by E1evat-
ing the Entire Site of the City from
One t. Twelve Feet.

When the great gulf storm Of Sept.
8, 1900, had swept over the city of Gal
weston, Texas, and had left in it's wake
more than 5000 corpses and such a
scene Of ruin and desolation US was
never before presented on the Ameri-
can continent, it was only the stoutest
heart and the most optimistic mind
that predicted that the city would or
could ever recover from the great ca
lamity.
But that Is just what the brave city
Is doing. More than that. the new Gal
weston promises to far outrank the de-
stroyed city in every way. From tho
miles Of wreckage, from the ruined
business blocks, from the great gulf
shore territory which the storm trans
formed from a beautiful residential
section to barren waste, there is aris-
ing a city more beautiful, more sub
stantial, a more prosperous than the
one SO frightfully wrecked by wind
and water little more than two years
ago.
Galveston's struggle against awful
odds and in the face of the grea test
encouragement constitutes one Of the
bravest chapters in the annals Of
American enterprise. No American
city was ever so stricken, no recovery
has been so phenomenal. That which
has already been done and that which
is to be done is Of such magnitude as
to transcend belief.
The sound Of the hammer ana the
saw has never ceased since the invad
Ing waters retreated into the gulf. The
The Western news., 1903-01-21

Communal ownership Of land Is fast
When, few months hence. the land in
the Indian Territory that has been held
by the tribes is divided among the in
dividual Indians, practically tho last
great tracts Of common lands will dis
appear. The tribes have approved the
acts Of Congress which provide for the
division Of the land and make citizens
of the Indians. They are ready to con.
cede 50 much to civilization. If they
can be protected from unscrupulous
SPECTATORS In the enjoyment Of their
Inheritance, we may have in few
years new type Of genuine native
American ancestry.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

A western genius has invented an
alarm clock in the shape of finger
ring, which arouses the sleeper without
disturbing other members of the house
hold. The alarm Is set at the hour one
desires to be awakened, and at the APP
pointed time small needle runs out
from the clock and ptcks the finger of
the wearer. A ring OF that sort would
be an excellent thing for husbands to
put on when they have to go with their
wives to dreary lectures. They would
be sure Of waking in time to go home
The Western news., 1903-01-21

An official report has been made to
the bureau of forestry showing the de-
tails Of the losses caused by forest
ing September last. These details cov-
er the losses not only in standing tim
ber but in manufactured lumber, saw
The Western news., 1903-01-21

A guest at one Of our justly famed
hotels who wanted to get married the
other day pushed tho button in his
room and ordered Clergyman sent Up
right away. If he should ever be in
need Of divorce he will fnd we can
not furnish it quite so readily, but inn
provements in the system are constant
ly being made.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

A gunmaker dies and the Kaiser
walks behind his coffin to the ceme-
terry. A learned professor, a skilled
surgeon, great physician dies and the
kaiser-well, the Kaiser Is naturally
sorry.
The Western news., 1903-01-21
OF First Importance.

Have you read that article In this
months Million Magazine of the vol.
canic eruptions and their effect on the
price of corn?'
mo, haven't got that far. Just fin
ished the first half of the advertise
ents."-Cincinnati Commercial Trib-
une.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

The fellow who holds you up on the
street and takes your money ut the
point of revolver is accounted dan
gerous character, but he deserves more
respect than some who pretend to do a
square business and then hold people
up whenever they have an opportunity
to do 1t without violating the law.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

A French army officer claims to have
invented gun that makes neither ash
nor sound nor.smoke. Now let US have
one that makes no wound and We may
listen for the coming Of the millen-
mum.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

Somebody has figured out that the
average man utters II 500, 900 words in
the course Of year. OF course 1t
would be utter nonsense to figure out
the number the wife Of the average
man would use.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

Football season score: Killed, four
teen; MANNED and hurt, ninety. Deer
shooting season score: Fourteen hunt
ers killed, eleven hurt. This leaves
football still considerable Of lead.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

A man who stole pigs foot was
sentenced to two months In the work
house. 1t might not have gone harder
with him if he had worked under the
old motto and taken the whole hog or
none,
The Western news., 1903-01-21
From Boston, Perhapl

Prom Boston, Perhaps.
Don't you think she has a very dis
tingue ARR
"Yes," said the sad-looking young
man. Judging from the chill she
produces. 1 should call 1t liquid air.
Washington Star.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

A woman tasted for thirty-nine days
to get rid of apoplexy. She'll never
have it again.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

The supply Of colonels in Georgia is
not likely to run short. The Governor
Of that State has just maNs an even
hundred for his personal staff.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

Customer-What! You charge five
dollars extra for delivering load Of
coal? Dealer-Certainly. But, then.
we always send an armed guard along
to guarantee safe delivery.
The Western news., 1903-01-21
No Footprints

NO FOOIpf10S3
"Don't you want to leave footprints
on the sands Of timer asked the earn
est man.
"Footprints?' echoed Senator Sor-
ghum. "No. don't care to 60 through
life on foot. I want to ride."-Wash-
ington Star.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

A New York judge has decided that
women may smoke If they want to.
The decision is all right, but why
should they want to?
The Western news., 1903-01-21
A Matter OF Pride,

A Matter OF Pride.
''The strike cost at least $140,OOO,-
OOO."
"Say. that gives me very comfort
able feeling. I'm in that for nearly
couple O. dollars myself" Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

The luckiest old rascal of his time
is King Leopold Of Belgium; but his es-
cape was narrow enough to raise the
Belgian hair.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

When man secures a license to
practice medicine he feels that he has
a free right Of way to the innArds OF
his fellow citizens.
The Western news., 1903-01-21
Measurement.

Measurement.
TT is impossible for a man to meas
ure the influences which a single in
dividual can exert In this world"
That's right" answered Senator
Sorghum; I've known man to get
as much as 4 hundred dollars for q
vote when 1t wasn't worth ten.'-
Washington Star.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

Perhaps, after all, babies do under
stand the language women talk to them
and stay awake nights to get even.
The Western news., 1903-01-21
Knew All AbOm IT.

Kitty-Dick proposed to me last
night.
Laura-Yes, he came to your house
from Alice Nelson's. She had just re.
fused him.-Somerville Journal.
The Western news., 1903-01-21
His Superior.

DO you believe in the equality OF
the sexesr'
"Yes, I do. But I wouldn't like my
wife to know t."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

are, she never likes to acknowledge the
corn.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

After q man has almost fallen in love
with a pretty girl of 20. he sees herr
16-year-old sister, and finds out that
the sister is really the top row Of fruit
in that basket.
The Western news., 1903-01-21

the world prohibiting viyisection in the
schools,
The Western news., 1903-01-21

Some people seem to think you ought
to pay rent for the place you occupy
in their daily thoughts.
The Western news., 1903-01-21
066OO0O6U
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In his way Mr.. Krupp was one of
the greatest peacemakers Of the age.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-10-03
Cold Wave Appetites.

Cold waves arti6cially produced
are to be the stimulants OF appetite
in the future. The scientists say
50. According to the prospectus of
these gentlemen we shall don sort
OF refrigerator-muzzle when the
dinner gong sounds, inhaie as much
frozen ozone as we comfortably
can, then fall to and eat until the
cows come home. Meanwhile, at
this period OF the year, there are
very many to whom the acquisition
OF an appetite is no mysterious rite.
VIII the scientists furnish a means
of satisfying those cravings which
develop without being frozen into
existence?"
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-10-03

The matter of constructing an
inland canal from Sabine lake to
the Rio Grande has been agitated
for half a century and the only
progress made toward it was the
construction, more than 40 years
ago, of short canal from West
Galveston bay to the Brazos river
for the purpose of affording an inside
route for steamboats,. During the
hurricane of Sept. s, 1900, the
remains OF the old canal were badly
damaged, and it is doubtful as to
whether it could be utilized at
present BY craft of any draft OF
water. In discussing the question
the Caller says:
There is no question that the
enterprise, if carried out, would be
of vast importance to this city and
give the bushes men of Corpus an
outlet and relief from the Pxactions
and unsatisfactory conditions to
present transportation matters"
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-10-03

agrees to finance the proposition on
certain conditions, wants to place
$50, 900 of stock in the Texas and
Mexican coast canal, this amount
to be made up by subscriptions
from the citizens or commercial
organizations OF Galveston, Hous-
ton, Velasco, San Bernard, Caney,
Matagorda, Lavaca, Rookport, Cor
pus Christi and Brownsville. If
the project is carried through, the
first cut will be from Brazos river
to Matagorda bay, the second
through Laguna Madre to Brazos
Santiago, and the third from Bra
EOS to The Rio Grande. Mr.. Sydnor
suggests that the probable amount
required from this section would be
$4,000 subscribed, $1,000 cash,
and the balance of $4,000 may
never have to be paid, as he figures
the receipts from the enterprise will
more than pay the interest on the
investment"
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-10-03
Found An Old Arctic House.

Captain Francis futile OF the
revenue cutter Bear, during he-
recent trip to the Arctic seas, found
house built by human beings prob
ably thousands of years ago. 1t
was partially imbedded in a cliff
fronting on the ocean fifteen miles
southeast of Point Barrow. The
cliff rose sheer seventy feet from
the ocean. Forty feet above tide
water and thirty feet from the top
of the cliff one end of the house
was exposed. The ribs of an enor-
NOUS whale were used for a frame
work, and over these skins had evil
IDENTIFY been stretched.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-10-03
Latest News From Laredo.

Special to THE HERALD:
Laredo, Tex, Oct 3, 4 p. M
Three positive cases of yellow fever
have developed during the last
twenty-four hours; no suspicious;
no death. Situation encouraging.
Doctor Tabor confident of speedily
eradicating the disease. he city is
being thoroughly disinfected.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-10-03

"It's a peculiar fact, remarked
the observing youth. that only
about one woman in a thousand
can whistle"
Nothing peculiar about that
rejoined the man with the absent
hair. As long as Woman can
talk she doesn't care to whistle -
Chicago News.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-10-03
LIST OF LETTERS.

The uncalled for letters remain.
ing in the post office of Brownsville
for the week ending October 3,
1903, are as follows:
LADIES.
Hodge I. j.
Johnson Kate
Lightfont Minnie
Lugo Merce
Meto Rosa
Partida Anita
Reed Agnes
Vasquez Angela.
GENTLEMEN.
Avary T. J.
Cready Nc K. ".
CIaer J. w.
Clay j. Thomas
Bali Portirio
CARA Policarpo de la
Gutierrez 6. Jovis
Hernandez Manuel
Hernandez Andres
IIalbey w. NJ
Landers G. W.
Longoria Juan
Lipsey De E. A.
Martinez Nestor
Pena Bacilio
Rodriguez Felix
Reyes MARTINEZ Francisco
Tijerina Santiago
Trevino Marin.
Persons calling for the above let
ters please say advertised,
J. B. SHARPE, Postmaster.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-10-03

Out in Portland, Ore, it is said
that we'll known citizen recently
accumulated a somewhat over heavy
case of intoxication by sitting too
long in the sunshine.