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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-08-02
Nickel, July 9th, 1905.

Editor Sinner Gazette.
Cotton picking is in progress here
at this time and the feecy staple is
turning out fairly we'll.
All old cotton held by farmers
for ten cents, having climbed to
that mark, has been marketed. 1
hear of none held back in this sec
ton.
The molasses mill runs daily,
which fills the atmosphere with
sweet fumes.
Fodder and hay in large quaint
tiea have been saved for winter
feed.
There is a wolf hunt brewing, bu
not yet materiAlized. A paper will
fifteen or more signers of our mos
substantial citizens agree 70 pa,
$500 per head for every woitGAp
tuvsd. We,are expecting part
with trained dogs to arrive in ,Ah
near future and hoperhemay me'
With good SUCCESS, as the depredl
tions are becoming alarming.
Some few cattle changing hand
ErABs,Hne and stock in fine f
Msssrs. White, Nicely & c.
owners Of the sawmillsat this pla
esars,doips q good business, ssswil
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-08-02
,E1enkllasaa News.

Messrs. VIM. Fehler, Clerk. and
Anton Buesing and others we're
visitors to Victoria last week.
Mrs. f. D. Jaroszewski visited
her-son at BAnrsville last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aug. schendel and
daughter, MissNWanda. spent sew
eral days otaaHkHssk hsre, visiting
lselativsa'
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-08-02

AND
FRESH
EGGS
WANTED

We want all the Chickens, Hens
and large Flyers that you can
bring Us. Will pay zoe each for
hens, 70 pound for flyers, and Sc
per dozen for fresh eggs. ALL
CASH. s, A. CARNEs & sOS.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-08-02

Plenty Of fine stationery always
on hand at the GAzEETE Office
Leave your otdsrs fpr sAnythipg
you.wsnt.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-26
ADAPTABILITY.

Adaptability's sails are set to catch
any wind that blows.
To the man with adaptation an emer-
gency is an opportunity.
Adaptability is the ability to adapt
yourself quickly to unexpected condt-
lions.
Adaptability is always ready; is never
taken at short; is the great lightning
change artist, and often turns hopeless
ness into victory.
A general in battle, statesman In Of
fee, or a financier handling large enter
prises, without the ability to readily
adapt himself to suddenly changed con-
ditions-is misflt.
When one plan fails the man with
adaptation has 40 untried others wait
ing.
The bankrupt law is meant as an asy-
lum for men who are without adaptable
ity.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-26
RACE WITH DEATH
IN CANVAS CANOE
Minnesota High School Boy Saves
Comrade Who Had Severed an
Artery in His Leg.

st. Paul, Minn.-George Bohn, 16
years old, a student at the mechanic
arts high school, is the 16-year-old
hero of thrilling race with death
which took place on the Minnesota
river in canvas canoe by night. After
padding II miles in the middle of the
night with his companion, Mathey
Taylor, in a dying condition at his
side, the young hero at last reached
Fort Smelling, where he received as
sistance and had his companion re-
moved to the Cobb hospital at Merriam
park.
Taylor is 20 years old and is also a
student at the mechanic arts high
school. He had accidentally severed an
artery in his left leg with a knife
while working in putting up a tent on
where the two boys had gone to camp
for few days.
Taylor would have bled to death but
for the assistance and endurance of
his young companion, who first tied q
handkerchief about his friends leg, but
finding that alone did not suffice to
check the flow of blood he got a small
stick and twisted the handkerchief
until the blood ceased to flow freely.
Taylor had been weakened by the
loss of blood and tainted several
times. The two boys realized they
must get to place where medical as
sistance could be obtained. and as the
nearest house was two or three miles
distant from the river they decided to
paddle to Fort Smelling.
1t was eight o'clock in the evening
when Taylor severed the artery in his
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-26
BAT TIE WITH HUGE
PYTHON IN A STORE
DEADLY CONFLICT AMID BIRDS
AND ANIMALS.
BIG SNAKE SEEKS A MEAL
Escapes from Cage at Midnight and
Proprietor and Animal Keeper
Have Hard Fight Return
ing It to Its Den.

Chicago.-Amid discordant chorus
OF screening monkeys, shrieking par
rots, frightened canaries, squealing
guinea pigs and chattering song birds,
in the semi-darkness of a single light
at midnight in the bird store of E. c..
Vehle, on State street, the proprietor
and Cy De Vry, animal keeper at Lin
coin park, battled three-quarters of an
hour with two giant pythons, in mo-
mentary danger of being crushed to
death by the ferocious reptiles.
1t was as weird fight as ever took
place in Chicago and ended fortunate
ly for the two men, who succeeded in
getting the snakes back into their den
and found themselves uninjured. Then
it was discovered that the larger of the
two pythons had swallowed two valu-
able ringtail monkeys and had killed
IL Java sparrows.
The two reptiles, one 10 feet long
and the other 16 feet in length, and
each as large of girth as stovepipe
were received from the Philadelphia
house of the Vehle concern early in
the week. They were part of recent
importation of reptiles from India.
The snakes were confined in strong
box, five feet square and two feet high
covered with wire netting. When the
store was closed at night the lid
was left open so that the reptiles could
| get air, the only bar to their getting
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-26
THE CITY OF ROSES
EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR THEY
BLOOM IN PORTLAND.
This Flower a Feature of the Lewis
and Clark Exposition Thou
sands Given Away-The
Boutonniere Club.
BY w. E. Brindley.


Portland proved her title to fame as
the Rose City of the world by holding
during the early days of the Lewis and
Clark exposition the most successful
rose show ever held in America The
show, which took place in the Auditori-
UNI at the exposition, demonstrated to
the many fasteners who were present
that the stories of Portland roses
were not myths, for half million
blossoms, some of them as large as the
biggest sunflowers. bore fragrant testi-
mony that half had not been told.
There have been rose shows in many
cities, but the Portland rose show was
different from others in that the roses
on exhibition were grown out of doors,
in front yards, rather than in hot
houses under the watchful care of ex-
perienced florists. In Portland every
body has roses. There are rose hedges
in the yards, and rows of roses line the
boulevards, while climbing roses lift
their flower heads to second and third
story windows. The roses displayed
at the exposition were the kind which
are found everywhere in Portland, and
which may be had for the asking There
were % contests, all but four being
amateur rosarians. Besides those who
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-26

Oscar II. of Sweden Is one of, the
ablest, most distinguished monarchs of
the day, but cannot boast Of descent
from a long line of rulers. In fact it is
but the third generation of Bernadottes
that now occupies the throne.
Oscar is the fourth of the house, how
ever, that has reigned, succeeding his
brother, who died childless.
Thus runs the line: First, Charles
XIV; then his son, Oscar l.; he was
succeeded by his son, Charles XIV; next
Oscar II. became king.
Long lines of kings are apt to result
in weddings, unable to guide the ship
of state, Intellectually and physically
unfit for their responsible positions.
The House of Bernadotte has occasion to
take pride in its record as yet made.
Mr.. Chamberlain, writing in the Chi
cago Record Herald, thus presents the
story of the Bernadottes:
of the reigning families of Europe
none has added more to the luster of
kingly honor than that to which belongs
the present monarch of Sweden. From
the time of its founding by the distin-
of Ponte-Corvo, whose title came
through the empiric power of the great
Napoleon, the house of Bernadotte has
been one which has ever commanded
the highest respect and admiration.
Springing as it did from the loins of old
fighting stock, it has comprehended al
most all that makes for greatness in the
view of the world. 1t is a family of sail
ors, able seamen, who from boyhood
were familiar with ships in all their de-
tails; navigators, who, beginning with
the boxing of compass, acquired a
knowledge of every trick and turn of
wind and wave; soldiers, taking natural
fy to bivouac and battlefield and know
ing Of experience the ranks and grades
of fighting men, from the private in the
squad to the commander in chief pos
sessed of the baton of field marshal
In the arts and sciences it's members
have given to the world artists, whose
handiwork has been of superior order
of merit and whose paintings and mod
-elings adorn public galleries and private
collections; singers, whose rare voices
have successfully competed with the
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down; the talents of the enlisted pri-
vate were recognized and ere long he
was advanced to high positions.
Before we speak of the miracle that
placed French lad of humble origin on
the throne of foreign country, let us
review briefly his previous career. He
served nine years in his profession with
out attracting particular attention, but
at the end of that period his rise was
rapid. He became colonel. general of
brigade, then general of division and
French minister of war. 1t was in the
campaign of the Rhine and the Italian
campaign his military prowess won
special recognition; but of this one of
his soldiers Napoleon never had any
great fondnesS. Bernadotte was above
f1attery and above intimidation, and
had to be handled with diplomacy.
When Napoleon overthrow the directory
and had himself made First Consul,
Bernadotte would have been glad to
defend the directory had he been backed
up with strong stroops. But the troops
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-26
COMES A TIME
When Coffee Shows What It Has
Been Doing.

"Of late years coffee has disagreed
with me-" writes matron from Rome.
N. Y, its lightest punishment was to
make me 'logy' and dizzy, and It
seemed to thicken up my blood.
THE heaviest was when it upset my
stomach completely, destroying my APP
petite and making me nervous and ir-
ritable, and sent me to my bed. After
one of these attacks, In which near
ly lost my life, L concluded to quit
and try Postum Food Coffee.
ut went right to the spot! found
1t not only a most palatable and re-
freshing beverage, but a food as well
"All my ailments, the loginess' and
dizziness, the unsatisfactory condition
OF my blood, my nervousness and ir-
ritability disappeared in short order.
and my sorely af1icted stomach BE-
gan quickly to recover. / began 10
rebuild and have steadily continued
until new. Have good appetite and
am rejoicing in sound health, which
I owe to the use of Postum Food COT
fee." Name given by Postum Co, Bat
tie Creek, Mich.
There's q reason.
Read the little book. "The Road -
MELVILLE" found In each pkg.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-26
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Rev. Joseph w. Cross, the oldest IN.
ing alumnus of. Harvard college and
the Andover Theological seminary. cell
ebrated recently his ninety-seventh
birthday
Daniel T. Jewett, of St. Louis, who
viii be ninety-eight years old in Sep
TENDER, and who recently retired from
practice. is probably the Oldest attor-
ney in the United States.
Miss Minnie Baldwin Is president OF
bank in Wister, l. T. She is also
among the incorporators Of the insti-
tuition and will assume direct manage
ment. The concern has a capital Of
81, 200.
Brig. Gen. T. ]. Whit has taken
command of the northern division Of
| the United States army, with head
quarters at Denver. His career covers
almost half a century Of strenuous
| service He is native of Pennsyl-
vania, having served through the civil
| war with the Sixth Pennsylvania regi-
ment.
H P Bledsoe, son of the man whose
life suggested to John Hay the poem
Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle" Ia
| living in Denver. The elder Bledsoe
| lived in Warsaw nearly all his life.
and was a famous character among
river men in the old days. The
old man, who died three months ago.
always kept up correspondence with
Mr.. Hay.
! Mrs. Howard Gould has the finest
| private collection of birds in the
United States, in some respects excell-
| ing the aviaries at the New York
| geological gardens. Not only has she
made it a pastime to gather from all
the quarters of the globe remarkable
and beautiful specimens of the feath-
cry tribe, but she has also made 1t Q
study and a science.
Everybody knows Russell Sage as
f1nancier. Only few remember that
at one time in his career he represent
ed a New York district in congress.
He was elected to the Thirty-third con-
gress as whig, taking his seat De-
cember 5, 1853. On the second day OF
the session he participated in discus
sion regarding the creed of clergy
man who had been suggested for chap
lain of the house. From that time on
he took active part in the deliberations
of that body, proving himself q
strong debater, but doing his best work
in committee.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-26
BITS OF FLAG LORE.

The simple stripping of the red and
yellow in the flag of Spain was suggested
by the arms of Aragan.
The strangest flag under which man
ever fought is that of the Macedonian
insurgents. 1t is red on one side and
black on the other.
The crescent, moon and stars were
adopted by the Turks as their device on
the capture of Constantinople by Mo-
manned II. in 1853.
The white cross on the red field Of the
Swiss flag has a religious meaning. It
was adopted as an appeal to heaven in
1899, when the stout Swiss fought and
won one of their greatest battles.
Peter the Great, 1t is said, borrowed
the idea of the Russian flag from the
Dutch, among whom he learned ship
building. He simply turned the Dutch
tricolor, red, white and blue, upsida
down.
In compliment to William, prince OF
Orange, their great leader, the colors Of
the house of Orange were adopted by
the sturdy people of the Netherlands,
at the end of their long bout with Spain
orange, white and blue; but nobody
knows how, in the centuries since, the
orange became changed to red.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-26

splendid native vOcaliSm of the land
which has born Nilsson, Arnoldson and
Lind; composers, who have created love
songs of sweetness; anthems grand and
religious, and military measures of in
spring melody; poets, whose verse
would be an inspiration to any litera-
ture; novelists, essayists and orators
OF force, power and quality; protectors
of things artistic and friends who have
not only appreciated artists, but have
reached out TO them hands of helpful
fellowship; fine statesmen, whose I'M
usual pOise, acumen and courage has
been heralded throughout the earth, and
better, perhaps, than anything in the
long gentlemen always
Men of courage as we'll as men of cul-
ture and character have been members
OF this house. We are reminded of the
words Too proud to care whence l
came" when we read the address of
the founder to the people at the time
he was crowned king of Sweden.
When | came among you l brought
nothing beyond my sword and my ac-
tions as my title and guarantees. If l
could have brought you a succession of
ancestors from Charles Martel down
ward, l should have valued the distinc-
ton for your sakes only. For my part,
/ am satisfied with the remembrance of
the services have performed, and with
the glory which has exalted me- My
claims in other respects rest on my
adoption by the king, and on the unani-
nous choice of free people On these
Il found my rightful pretensions; and so
long as honor and justice are esteemed
on earth my rights will be accounted
more legitimate, more sacred, than il
were descended from Odin. History in
forms us that no prince ever mounted
q foreign throne but by election or by
consent. l have not opened my way to
the Swedish throne by the latter; have
been invited to it by the former; and
this Is my best, my proudest claim"
Bernadotte was French born, son of a
not over-successful lawyer. 1t was in
tended the son (Jean Baptiste Jules)
should follow the fathers profession,
but he showed a strong inclination for q
military life and enlisted as a private
In the royal marines of France. He be-
gan his career at fortunate time for
q man with ambitions. for it was at the
period when family" meant least in
France, ability had its chance. The
SeVolution had turned classes upside
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twice. unwinding the coil before the
snake could get sufficient purchase to
crush Vehle.
DE Vry and Vehle, each seeking to
get hold of the cold, Shiny form, fought
desperately for nearly three-quarters Of
an hour, the monkeys, the parrots.
canaries, love birds, rabbits and other
animals not once stopping their COM
motion and cries.
The confusion only added to the diff
hculty- Nearly exhausted, the two men
were about to give up the struggle and
summon more help when Vehle told
De Vry he could club the snake into
submission. De Vry then struck the
big fellow half dozen times on the
head with black jack and the battle
was won. The two lifted the big form
into the den.
1t was then found that the larger
python had swallowed the two ring
tails that had occupied the cage that
lay on the floor. A bulge in his body
two feet back from his head told the
story OF the little monkeys fate. They
had been destroyed before Mr. Vehle
reached the store. The 10 Java spar
rows killed were destroyed when the
big python knocked their cage to the
floor.
These snakes eat only once year."
Mr.. Vehle said afterwards ''They
heard the birds in the store during the
night, and l suppose they got suddenly
hungry and started out after a meal"
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leg and it was not long afterward that
the two were coming down the river
toward st. Paul as speedily as the
athletic young Bohn could make the
canoe travel. Throughout the whole
journey Taylor was lying at the bot
tom of the canoe, occasionally attempt
ing to assist the paddler, but always
finding himself too weak
For four hours the young hero pad
died as rapidly as he could. while his
companion was steadily growing weak
er from the loss of blood. When they
arrived at Fort Smelling Taylor was al
most unconscious and Bohn ran to the
fort and got assistance. The hospital
authorities were soon te1ephoned and
the injured young man was taken to
the Cobb hospital.
His condition was pronounced seri-
Gus, but he is declared out of danger.
When Taylor received the injury he
was cutting tent pole with his knife.
The knife slipped from the wood and
severed an artery in his leg.
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were lacking and the imperator's power
grew apace. Bernadotte said of Ma
poleon after his first meeting with the
Corsican: 81 have seen a man 26 or q
years old who wishes to be thought so;
this does not augur well for the repub-
lic"
Napoleon's judgment of Bernadotte
also was discerning: HE has French
head and Roman heart. He has iron
blood in his veins" Napoleon had to
reward this dangerous man, however,
and try to placade him. He made him
a mashal of France. After Austerlitz
Bernadotte was more than ever hero
with the people, and there must be added
show of imperial favor; Napoleon pre-
scented him with the principality of
Ponte- Corvo. And presently Berna-
dotte was offered still higher post
The man with the French head and
Roman heart became Swedish king.
And why and how? When his strange
opportunity came, Sweden was IN sore
perplexity. Her king was old and weak,
she had but recently acquired Norway,
was little afraid of Denmark and Rus
STA. The thought came. that it might
win the favor of the great Napoleon if
there were asked to be ruler of Sweden
one Of his field marshals, namely the
prince of Ponte-Corvo. The prince was
connected by marriage with Napoleon,
his wife sister Of Joseph Bonaparte,
Napoleon's Oldest brother. So the
Swedea argued Bernadotte surely is in
high favor with Napoleon, we will ask
him to our throne.
1t is very probable that Bernadotte
never at all enjoyed the favor of Bona
parte, but the emperor did nothing to
interfere when the Swedes made the
astonishing proposition to name him
their crown prince and carried out the
astonishing proposition. The famous
general was adopted by the childless
king, and at the death of the latter
| Q818) assembled the throne of Sweden
and Norway. He enjoyed long reign
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.ried for prizes, hundreds of people con-
tributed to the success of the under
taking by giving their choicest bios
SONS, and, although half million
blooms in all were shown, and perhaps
as many more rejected as unworthy of
Portland's fame as the Rose City, no
visible impression was made on the
bounteous supply.
In Portland, as elsewhere, June is the
month of roses, but no one speaks of 1t
as such, because while the blossoms
are rather more abundant in June than
at any other season, the rose blooms the
year around. During the holiday sea-
son last winter. when people in the east
were paying fabulous prices for flowers,
Portland folks picked fragrant clusters
of roses from their own front yards
In Portland, every day is a rose day,
and every one may wear rose every
morning, and have a bouquet of roses
on his dinner table every night.
At the rose show of the Lewis and
Clark exposition there probably were
more roses than ever before were gath
cred under one roof. De Caprio's ad-
ministration band. which was en-
throned on the stage, was almost COM
pletely hidden by a bank of fragrant
blossoms. The frame of an Italian per-
COLA, which lowered 80 feet toward the
ceiling and was covered completely
with mass of roses and twining smilax
formed the center of the bank, while at
either side tier after tier of roses in
huge bouquets made a wall of color
The official flag of the exposition, made
in colors by the ingenious use of duets,
irises, carnations and roses, composed
the centerpiece of the whole
Perhaps the most attractive feature
of the rose show was bower in the CEN
ter of the building. built after the man
ner of grape arbor, and covered, like
the pergola, with profusion of choice
blooms. Aside from the pergola and
the bower, there was no attempt al
elaborate display, but the whole effect
was far more delightful than would
have been the case had the show been
made more artificial
In Portland, this summer, during the
CApOoltiOh pei AOd- uulll
October Is, there will be a rose show
every day, for there are 10000 rose
bushes on the fair grounds, in plats and
scattered about the walks and drive
ways; and these are all poisoning with
prodigality of bloom that is character
istic of Portland. The early visitors
at the fair have admired it's charming
setting, which is far superior to any
enjoyed by an earlier enterprise of like
nature, and they have maryeled greatly
at the mighty logs which compose the
Forestry building, and at the agricul
tural products shown in the displays
made by the various counties, but per
haps more than anything else, they have
enjoyed the roses, which constitut,
an entirely new exposition feature, ani
one not possible at any exposition less
advantageously situated