davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-20

done had the peace been kept, but
as soon as the people of Texas saw
there was to be fighting, there was no
holding them, and Houston himself
announced that he would go with his
state, no matter how far wrong, in
his judgment, it went.
1t has not suited the convenience
Of those who have written current
histories to recognize the strength Of
this feeling in such men as Houston,
but until full justice is done them, as
they represent it, it will never be pos
sible to write real history Of their
time.
After Houston was deposed from
the governorship, illegally deposed, as
he declared, and as no one will now
deny, some believed that he might be
induced to support the federal gov
ernment against Texas, and he was
offered a commission as major general
in the federal army, but if he had
been offered life tenure Of the pres
idency itself as the price of desert
ing Texas he could not have given
the offer a moments entertainment.
He had fought his fight for the union,
stalking everything on it and making
no reservations After that, when it
was a question of fighting for o'
against Texas, he was for Texas, right
or wrong. And whether this feeling
is right or wrong. it is the only real
patriotism there is. Anything short
of it is mere pinchbeck, the cheap and
worthless imitation Of that quality in
which human selfshnesss approaches
most nearly to sublimity.
After he was deposed for refusing
to take the oath Of allegiance to the
confederacy, Houston had the alter
native of submitting or bringing on
civil war in Texas. He submitted
without hesitation, but with the hope
fulness of the veteran politician who
never looks on any defeat as final.
On March 81 he started for the
statehouse, knowing that Clarke, the
new governor, was in possession. He
intended nothing more than to make
a final exhibition of his superiority
to circumstances, and it must have
been a spectacle, indeed, to watch
his majestic display Of lamenoss as he
walked toward the governor Office.
now in control of the southern CON
federacv. The confederates watched
him with keen and good-humored en-
joyment, telling each other that the
old mans San Jacinto wound had
broke out afresh and much worse
than usual.
After Virginia had been invaded
Houston tied on his San Jacinto sword
with the identical buckskin string he
had used for belt in the Texas war
of independence, and went out to drill
the confederate company into which
he had sent young Sam Houston, but
he still believed the south was fight
ing a useless and hopeless fight. Af-
forwards, however, when the fighting
grew hot and others began to despair,
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on the builders of deep-sea tonnage,
the American flag will be seen less
and less frequently in foreign ports.
Why, through the rulings of a
former Attorney-General and the
Board of General Appraisers our
Government became so un-Ameri-
lean that ii long ago refused to en-
force Section p of the Dingley
law-the section that provides for a
partial discrimination i'll duties
against goods imported i'll foreign
bottoms! What encouragement is
there for American capitalists to en-
gage in the building and the sailing
of ships when their Government
not only declines to help them, but
actually throws obstacles i'll their
way
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-02-11
HELP ON TIE FIRING LINE,
Provision for Removing the Wounded
Soldiers from Field to
Hospital.

Snatching fallen soldiers from the
danger zone and healing their wounds
by hospital system that follows the
firing line is a modern feature of the
United States army that only dash
of legislation is needed to make the
most perfect in the world, army sur
geons say.
A recent demonstration at Fort
Myer, across the Potomac from
Washington, by the hospital corps an
der Maj. Glennon, Dr. Smart and
Lieut.. Billingslea, showed how the
enemy's bullets are defeated. From
the big white steam automobile ambu-
lance to the primitive travels and
mule filters of the Filipinos, and from
the first aid service at the heels of
the men behind the guns to the mobile
hospitals. the system is without
loophole of imperfection
Eighteen thousand eight hundred
and fifty-two soldiers of a division
which is unit of action are provided
with first aid packages. When sol.
der falls one of these is quickly ap-
piled to his wound, and a resimental
medical oficer, of whom there are 81
at the rear of the firing line of each
division, takes the wounded man to
a first aid station, which is just far
enough away to be sheltered in a do
preston from the shot and shell.
Following the division are four am
bulance companies of II ambulances
each, and fear wagons, cared for by
three medical officers and SO men.
These ambulances are way be.
tween the first aid static and the
mobile hospitals. of which here are
four. containing 10S beds each. To
these hospitals the soldiers are quick.
ly taken and their wounds treated,
after which they are removed to more
permanent field hospitals, of which
there are three, built in sections, so
they can be moved piecemeal with the
advance Of the invaders. By the time
the patient reaches here. the firing
line has moved probably a couple Of
miles. and the first aid stations and
mobile hospitals p. 2ortlonately.
When it comes time for the field hos
pitfalls to move, the soldiers are trans.
ported to the base hospital OF 30 beds.
which is usually at railroad station.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-02-11
LESSON OF EARTHQUAKE.
Test of Structural Materials Fur
nished by San Francisco
Disaster.

If argument were neeIad to sbrz
the adylsability OF an investigation Of
structural materials It is more than
supplied by the recent earthquake In
California.
What buildings best stood the shock
is a question OF very great practical
interest. Why they endured when
others fell is food for thought to
builders all over the country
In this connection it is interesting
to note that the Appraisers building
in san Francisco, where the United
States geological survey maintains
local office, is one of the few business
structures in that city which was un-
injured either by shock or by flame.
Mr.. Charles G. Yale, special agent of
the survey, reports that little plaster
has fallen but that the building is
probably the only enc in the city that
shows not s. crack in its brick
walls This may be due to the fact
that the fol adation consists of a six
.3at bed Of so.M cement placed upon
thous anGs Ct Piles and that the bricks
titf put tBtsAts4ai WIFI ACtIlClt lllblcdu
OF mortar Tie walls are thicker be-
low the sidewalks than above them
When the building moves, it moves as
a mcnolith, End while the vibration is
cons dcza0'c, 70 damage has been done
except "a The plaster.
Iha5 Tie geological survey might
with nrolt TO the country undertake
The Investigation of structural mate
rials i atlested by the numerous re-
guests which 1t receives for Informal
ten On the sabiect. Twice during the
pazt year the survey YVES visited by a
ha3v a engineers who represented
] industrial developments in a
number OF different states. The sur
vey was unable to supply the informa-
ton which they desired concerning
tn strength and endurance of materi-
ais - be used in q variety of building
and construction work. This one fact
shows how desirable Il is that the in
vestieations now undcr way by the sur
vey ne enareed
These Investigations have thus far
had to do mainly VITA the testing of
cements and concretes. 1t is felt that
the work should be continued and am
piled.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-02-11
OUR DWINDLING SHIPPING

Three American stea mers owned
by Boston commercial interests and
engaged in the carrying trade be
tween Pacific Coast ports and the
Orient will shortly be withdrawn
from that service and from those
waters entirely two others SINH
larly owned and engaged will soon
be transferred from that trade To
one i'll which The American flag has
a monopoly-the Coastwise run
from Seattle to Nome but they
can engage i'll it only during the
Spring and Summer months. These
five American bottoms heretofore
engaged i'll the cross Pacific carry
ing trade, says the New York Com
mercial, will, within few months,
abandon ii to their foreign competi-
tors.
The reason is and it ought to
make every American blush for his
country that the company owning
and operating these ships can no
longer compete with the Govern
ment-aided Japanese lines and must
therefore surrender its claim to the
trade or see its capital eventually
absorbed and DESTROYED through
continued loss. The Japanese lines
not only enjoy direct and indirect
encouragement from their Govern.
ment, but are by law paid a gener-
Gus subsidy for every mile that
they sail, irrespective of cargo or
speed. Every other maritime ma
ton i'll the world but Our own"
says one of the officials of the Bos-
ton company, with tinge OF re-
sentiment and bitterness, "gives
some sort of a subsidy to encourage
its shipping engaged i'll the foreign
trade and until we get it ourselves
contracts for the delivering of sup
plies to the Philippines, and Ameri-
can dependency, will go to foreign
lines
Yes-and even were the Littauer
compromise shipping bill, now
pending in the House of Represent
atives, to be passed tomorrow and
be duly signed by the President, it
would not save these five ships to
our seaborne commerce they
would not come under its specific
provisions The plain and increas-
ingly disquieting truth is that until
the United States enters upon
policy of general ship subsidy and
readjusts her tariff schedules in
way to confer certain advantages
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-02-11
Shed Saw "Non Then.

Miss Elder am sure he means to
propose to rne this evening.
Miss Pert-Indeedi And will you
be married this spring or in the fall?
The idea! 1t doesn't seem to occur
to you that | might say no.
That's 50. He may say: Have
you any objection to marrying me?' =
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-02-11
Extinction Without Difference.

ro:any--Pop, what is the difference
bet Sean a hachlor girl and an old
ma,4 rommy's Pop--The only offer.
g.e 49, son. Is whether we are talk.
=. nef tetlnG her back or s.
-. :"hl'e1-!3..!: EsceTd.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-02-11
Rank.

Gunner-This cigar is named after
great author
dead.
How fortunate for the manufac.
turer of the cigar! Daily
News.
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Exactly.

Teacher-Now, Robert, do you know
what an isosceles triangle is?
Boy-Yes'm.
We'll, what is it,"
IT'S one Of dem things | gifts licked
fer not KNOWN wot it is."-Judge.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-02-23
HEREDITARY TENDENCIES Z:
OF WELL-BRED COLTS
Diseased, They Develop
of

such as colt distemper (strangles),
influenza, or weakness from worms
or malarial environment may bring 1t
into evidence. 1t is only by breeding
from stations and mares having per-
fectly sound eyes that we can reason
ably expect to produce horses Tree
from hereditary predisposition to eye
disease and therefore unlikely to sui
fer from such disease.
Carry out this idea as regards all
other diseases set down as hereditary.
The "spavined' sire or dam does not
necessarily produce offspring actually
affected with SPAWN but susceptibility
to the trouble is inherited or there is
a weakness of the hook joint, or a GER
tain imperfect formation of the hind
leg and hook that induces SPAWN
when the parts are exposed to any
undue strain. So is it with 'bog
SPAWN and curb" and thoro'pin;"
with "ringbones," and sidebones;"
with navicular disease and ''chorea."
The actual diseases are not trans
mitted but the offspring of sire or
dam affected with a hereditary dis
ease is rendered liable to contract the
same disease under conditions favor
ing it's development.
1t is as necessary, therefore, that
the brood mares should be sound as
that the soundness of the breeding
stations should be made imperative.
indeed we never can expect to have
sound breeding stock while either side
# the breeding equation is unsound.
1t takes like" to produce like" as
general proposition, and when the
mares are unsound the sound stall
lions will be unable to offset the I'M
Soundness.
The stallion owner could, if he
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therefore, considerably below what it
might be, had the animal been fed
longer. The shape of the rib shows
that it was not we'll sprung as COM
pared with that of the Angus steer
On the other hand the rib from the
Angus steer is of prime quality,
choicely finished. There is a large
amount of lean meat and at the same
time, sufficient quantity of fat, we'll
distributed SO as to give cuts the high
quality. The flesh is we'll marbled and
the we'll sprung rib gives deep flesh
near the central body line.
In the opinion of Farm and Home
the dressing-out Of these carcasses
should be more carefully studied by
feeders. Far more of the success in
the profitable feeding of steers de-
ponds upon the selection of the proper
ly formed animal and the finishing
than have ever been supposed How.
ever careful the stockman is to use
the proper feeds, deficiencies in these
two points cannon be made up.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-02-23
IN BOTH BIG EARTHQUAKES.

Crew Of Steamer Uarda Experiences
Frisco and Valparaiso Horrors.
The captain and crew of the Ham,
burg steamer Uarda had the uncovet-
ed privilege of experiencing both the
San Francisco and the Valparaiso
earthquakes.
On April IS, about in the morning,
as the ship was approaching the Gold
en- Gate, it was suddenly shaken vio-
lently. The captain Immediately or
dered the engines reversed, but the
ship continued to culver. While ev-
cry one was wondering what the ship
had run against the pilot came on
board and told of the great earth
quake. Soon the clouds of smoke also
spoke of the fires raging in the
doomed city. The next day fugitives
began to come on board and during
the following ten days about $50 per-
sons were daily fed. Then the steam
er started homeward.
On Aug. Is she was anchored in the
harbor of Valparaiso. 1t was after
supper and the captain lay on his sofa
reading, when suddenly the ship was
shaken so violently that the captain
was tossed up and glasses fell from
the cupboards to be- shattered on the
floor. The first officer was shouting:
Earthquake! Another earthquake!"
The ship continued to move up and
down so violently that one could not
stand. Then there was pause, fol-
lowed by other earthquakes.
presented itself. The city was in
ruins and the cries of the people,
mingled with the dismal howlings of
the dogs, lent additional terror to the
sight of the city burning in twenty
places at once
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-02-23
Comparison Of Beef Ste ers and Cuts of Meat

orally at leading stock shows and ex-
pertinent stations.
A comparison of the live animal
with cuts of meat subsequently taken
from it, and shown as finished ready
for the retail trade, gives in a strik-
ing fashion, the relative success of
the feeding. In the illustrations shown
herewith, the difference between the
two animals before and after killing
is easily seen.
The first steer of common breeding
is lacking in the development of the
parts which make up the highest
priced cuts. The loin is not we'll filled
out and the rib is poorly fattened,
neither is the shank we'll covered.
This animal also has poor form for
feeding and is much under fattened.
He represents class, many of which
are being produced, yet net their feed
ers no profit.
The comparison of the form of the
grade Angus steer with the common
steer shows at once the superiority of
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In breeding animals certain diseases
are termed "herditary' in that ex-
perience has proved. that the sire or
dam affected with any one of such dis
eases is liable to transmit or convey
to the offspring a tendency, suscepti-
bility or predisposition to contract or
develop Il like disease. The foal Of
unsound parentage may not come into
the world diseased, but it inherits a
plrdisposilion to disease which will
be likely to appear as an actually
whom the animal, at any age or stage
VI its existence, is exposed to inf1u-
.'nctS. circumstances or conditions IA
vur;ihle TO the development or cause
of such a disease
For example the colt from a heavy"
mare does not come into the world
>tllcted with "heaves' but it inherits
he gluttOnous appetite characteristic
N animals affected with this disease
and. in addition, a possible weakness
VI The digestive organs and lungs due
10 like weakness of those organs in
the affected parent. If a horse, with
such ii hereditary predisposition is al
lowed TO eat all the coarse, bulky, in
nutritious or dusty hay or fodder it
cares for and at the same time, is
made to work hard, while it's organs
are distended abnormally, it will be
likely in time to develop heaves.
\ horse not born with the predispo-
>ition referred to may, possibly be ex-
posed to exactly the same conditions
yet not develop heaves. One is
taken and the other left" In a stable
containing large number of horses
one or two may develop heaves while
the others escape, although fed and
worked in the same way. We should
avoid producing horses having such
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-02-23
ORIGIN or NURSERY RHYMES.
Some Very Familiar Lines Are Gen.
turtles Old.

Slang phrases, in course of time, be-
come absorbed into the vernacular,
just in the same way that nonsense
rhymes and nursery verses become in
stitutions, says the London Chronicle.
Take the following examples. The
famous lines
Mother may go out to swim?
Yes, my darling daughter;
Hang your clothes on hickory limb,
And don't go near the water"
are at least 1900 years old, being
found in the book of jests OF the sixth
century, compiled by Hierocles.
"Humpty Dumpty sat on a WALL"
etc., has come down to us from the
days of King John. 1.-The Babes in the
Wood" dates from the fifteenth CEN
tuly, being founded upon facts, an old
house near Wayland Wood, Norfolk,
having the whole story in carvings on
a mantelpiece. Little Jack Horner,"
little Miss Muffett," "Old Mother
Hubbard" Mother Goose and
"Goosey, Goosey, Gander" are each
traceable to the sixteenth century.
PUSSY Cat, Pussy Cat, where have
you been?" belongs to the reign Of
Queen Elizabeth. Three Blind Mice"
first appeared in a music book dated
1909. "A Froggie Would a-Wooing
Co. was licensed to be. sung as far
back as 1850. Boys and Girls, Come
Out to Play" and Lucy Locket Lost
Her Pocket" both hail from the period
of Charles II. And last of all, 'Cin-
derella,' Jack the Giant Killer"
"Bluebeard'' and "Tom Thumb" were
published by their author, Charles
Perrault, in the year 1897.
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WHAT A RACE SINGS ABOUT.
Each Nationality Has Its Own Range
of Favorite Ballads.

Each Nationality Has Its Own Range
of Favorite Ballads.
ct may or may not be the case that
a races temperament can be judged
from it's folk SONGS" said traveller on
transatlantic liner the other day,
"but it is interesting to note the dit
ference of subject matter in the songs
O. various peoples.
"The Irishman, for instance, seems
to sing for the most part about his
lacy love. Hardly any of his songs
are not addressed to his Somebody
Mavourneen.'
THE Scot, on the other hand, sings
about his country and it's history, as a
rule Scots Wha Hae,' *Ye Banks and
Braes O. Bonnie DOOM Loeb Lomond'
and so on might be taken as examples.
THE Englishman, it is interesting
to note, sings about himself all the
time. His songs are about his own
glory, his ships, his men, his power.
He refers occasionally to old England,
but only as place to be made famous
by his own prowess. Unlike the Irish
and the Scot, he sings little of his
women and his country's beauties.
"What about the Americana" asked
a New Yorker who was present.
"The new American, as far as have
Observed" replied the traveller, "sings
the songs of the country he was born
in. The old American, with all re-
spect to you, sir, seems to sing almost
exclusively of the things he hates
most-th> nigger:,r-New York Times.
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il hereditary predisposition as this
$50 that it is wise to retire from
breeding all stations or mares af
taicted with diseases such as "roar-
ing "broken wind" asthma" or
"'heaves'
Many farmers have enormously
been informed that wolf teeth" cause
eye trouble in horses. The wolf
teeth usually are discovered about
the time the colt commences to de-
velop periodic ophthalmia' or moon
blindness and are blamed for the
trouble. There is not vestige in this
belief. The wolf teeth" are insight
cant, rudimentary teeth (relics of the
seventh molars of the prehistoric
horse) and may be shed by the time
the horse is seven or eight years Old
They have no connection with the
sudden appearance of eye disease, but
the latter is due to hereditary predispo-
.sition acquired from affected parents
or ancestry and aggravated into actual
disease by irritation and inf1amma-
;tion or unsanitary surroundings and
influences.
The eye trouble usually appears
when the colt is rising three" and is
aggravated into existence by the cut
ting through Of 16 molar teeth and the
shedding OF IL molars. If the heredi-
:tary predisposltion to control eye dis
ease is absent the tooth-cutting irri-
tation and Inflammation do not affect
the eyes but, if the predisposition is
present, dentitiop irritation, the de-
bilitating effects of some disease,
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the latter. He is we'll developed at
points where the high priced cuts
grow and is finished just right for
market. He is not excessively fat or
lumpy, and has been produced in a
reasonably short period of fattening.
The comparison OF the rib cuts from
these two animals is even more valu
able. That from the common steer is
too light, rather short and thin and
lacking in quantity and distribution
of fat. The quality of the meat is,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-02-23
BETTER FARM MANAGEMENT ON
$ HIGH PRICED LAND
How Some Might Made to
the Investment.

of live stock, machinery, and other
capital and labor. All these are cor
ollaries of crop rotation, and the re-
suit of systematic crop rotation must
always be increasing profits due to
greater productiveness in the soil,
more effective employment of capital
and labor, and sounder business meth
DDS. The intensive systems of farm
ing practiced near the great cities of
the eastern part of the United States,
where grain and mill feeds are
shipped from the west, can not be ex-
tended to majority of the farms in
the United States. Such systems of
farming can only be practiced at the
expense of the fertility of other agri.
cultural regions from which concen-
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remodel his business to meet the new
and changed conditions. 1t is not
idle prophecy to sound this warning,
that, unless the next generation which
tills the soils of the middle west puts
the fields under systems of farm man
agement, fertilizer problems such as
now: confront the east and south will
have to be met before many decades,
On the other hand, if the proper
physical conditions for soil sdecompo-
sition are maintained by. systematic
crop rotations and intelligent methods
of farm management, the, producing
capacity. Of the prairie soils can be
maintained indefinitely. u Land on
which crops are rotated scientifically
demands more intelligent methods 81
Geld management; more elligent. use