Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-09-16


not end as happily as the designers
Of them expected.
Such of the crops as were waiting
for rain may now proceed with their
unfinished business.
The airship man declines to be
called chauffeur. He claims to be
a professor of aviation.
That swimmer who failed to swim
the English channel after the seventh
trial should get an airship.
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One nice thing about Minister WI
was the fact that It was almost impos.
sible to misspell his name.
There is always SO much trouble
about moving the crops that the farm
ers ought to put casters on them.
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Sweden has added its name to the
long list OF foreign lands that are hav-
ing heap OF trouble this summer.
One of the best signs of good times
rs the activity in the repair shops Of
the railroads. Talk of another car
shortage ia about due.
The African Diamond Trust has put
up prices Here is where the heart
less monopolies take advantage again
of the necessity of the poor.
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The fool who rocks the boat has
not been heard from frequently this
summer, but victims of carelessness
have increased to a lamentable extent.
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It's windy day when no one beats
the record with an aeroplane. The
heroplane and the art of managing
1t are undergoing steady improve.
ment
Labor troubles in this country are
not numerous at the present time, and
there would be fewer of them were 1t
not for the professional agitators who
make It business to stir up these
troubles.
The Connecticut angler who has
met with great success through sink-
shing alongside the he glass ls4 prison s,s a for
the hungry big fish that become an
gered by humping their noses against
1t, has given fresh excuse for includ-
ing the bottle in fishing outfits.
Now tnat Minister WI Ting Fang is
returning to China again, they are
telling stories about him. Here is
one: A few years ago in New York.
he was met by Tammany politician
What is your Christian name, sir?"
the politician asked. At once the dip
lomat's oriental calm stiffened into
dignity. my surname is Wu."
A decree has been published in
Spain suppressing the privilege of
purchase OF immunity from military
service. All will now have to serve
in the army rich and poor alike. This
is first fruit of the popular uprising
and is encouraging, as 1t shows that
the Spanish government is willing to
listen to the voice of the people.
W.. a.f tsa
An unusual example of loyalty is
given by the petition of woman in
Seattle for divorce because her Eng
, lish husband will not allow her to
shoot off firecrackers and display the
American flag on the Fourth of July.
She should. however, assert her inde-
pendence in better way by defyins
her marital tyrant and periodically
shooting off the fireworks anyway.
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If you have an idea 1t is hot and
humid, read this news item: bal
loon which made an ascension from
St Louis landed in Illinois after sail
ing all night through cold rain and
sleet and through heavy snowstorm
for about an hour. Is not this sugges-
tive of the coming time when 1t will
be possible, with the aid OF flying ma
chimes, to find any sort of climatic
conditions desired? M
Naval officers in Charlestown have
warrant for being incensed at the ac-
ton OF Boston Judge, who gave a
youth brought before him the alterna-
tive of enlisting in the navy or going
TO Jail, says the Baltimore American.
Navy service is an honorable one, and
the stand taken that 1t lowers 1t In the
eyes Of the public to attempt to make
it Of reformatory character for en-
bryo criminals is one which popular
opinion should not approve. ~
The killing of three German bal
loonists by Russian guards on the Dor
ders Of the cars dominions gives the
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