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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-12-16
Fishing Extraordinary.

Representative Flood of Virginia
tells a good story in which one Of
the characters was Gen. Reuben Lind.
say Walker of the confederate army.
On one occasion the general was wait
ing for his breakfast, and his faithful
negro servant had gone to catch some
fish for the feast When the serv-
ant was away an unusually long time
the general called to him impatiently:
why don't you come here with that
fish, SAM"
Sam in the meantime had caught
a founder, which is white on one side.
with a wilderness that loks like raw
fish meat
"All right, Massa Reuben!" called
out Sam. Use comm des ez soon
ez kotch de uvver hat o. dis here
fish. Washington Times.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-12-16
SAVE THIS RECIPE FOR COLDS

Mix half pint of good whiskey with
two ounces of glycerine and add one
half ounce Concentrated pine COM
pound The bottle is to be well shaken
each time and used in doses of tea
spoonful to tablespoonful every four
hours" Any druggist has these ingre-
dents or he will get them from his
wholesale house. The Concentrated
pine is special pine product and
comes only in half ounce bottles each
enclosed in an alright case, but be
sure 1t is labeled Concentrated" This
is one of the best and quickest reme-
dies known to science.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-12-16
HABITS CHAIN
Certain Habits unconsciously Formed
and Hard to Break.

An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces-
sary to break lifelong habit would,
If 1t could be transformed, lift weight
of many tons.
1t sometimes requires a higher de-
gree of heroism to break the chains of
pernicious habit than to lead for
lorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady
writes from an Indiana town:
From my earliest childhood was a
lover of coffee. Before was out of my
teens was a miserable dyspeptic, suf-
fering terribly at times with my stom.
ach.
Il was convinced that It was coffee
that was causing the trouble and yet
/ could not deny myself a cup for
breakfast. At the age of SO was in
very poor health, indeed. MY sister
told me l was in danger of becoming
coffee drunkard.
but never could give up drinking
coffee for breakfast, although it kept
me constantly i'll, until tried Postum.
| learned to make 1t properly according
to directions. and now we can hardly
do without Postum for breakfast, and
care nothing for coffee.
81 am no longer troubled with dys-
pepsia, do not have spells of suffering
with my stomach that used to trouble
me SO when l drank coffee"
Look in pkgs: for the little book, THE
Road to MELVILLE" There's a Reason
Ever read the above letter. new
nre genuine, true, and full OF human
interest. ta,l,7 n ~
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-12-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST
NEWS THAT is NEWS, WHEN 1T is
NEWS, FOR ALL.
DOINGS OF DAY AND WEEK
Happenings the Wide World over Of
important Events Condensed to
Good Reading.
WASHINGTON.

AS a promise of activity in the in
terest of legislation, senators Friday
introduced more than $50 bills and res
olutions COVERING variety of sub
lects. Many of these measures failed
OF passage during the last congress
and 80 per cent of them will receive
scant consideration this session. Many
are for pensions that could not be
granted under the general law.
Expedition and Dispatch" is the
watchword passed along in the matter
of appropriations at Wednesdays SEES
sion CT the appropriations committee
of the house, and already several of the
big bills which will carry millions of
dollars for the support of the govern
ment are under way.
AS Christmas falls on Saturday this
year. 1t is likely that congress will ad-
iourn the middle Of that week until
Jan. 3. So far Speaker Cannon has not
given the matter any consideration, so
far as the house Is concerned, but the
indications are that the adjournment
will be about Wednesday or Thurs
day OF Christmas week.
With the medical corps OF the navy
asking for hospital ships and the bu-
reau of construction and repair de-
monding repair ship, the bureau Of
ordinance has now come forth with a
duplication for an ammunition supply
ship. Admiral Mason. chief of ordi-
nance, in his annual report made pub
lie Wednesday, presents arguments to
show the need of such ship.
Tuesdays cabinet session lasted for
nearly three hours. The president dis
cussed various features of his forth
coming special message on amend
ments to the interstate commerce and
antitrust laws and the conservation
OF natural resources. A special mes
sage on Nicaragua may be sent to
congress within the next two weeks,
or may be delayed, according to de-
veiopments.
Representative Creager OF Oklaho-
ma introduced two bills Tuesday for
relief Of the Delaware Indians in Ok
lahoma. One bill is to permit the In
dams to press a number of claims
against the government in the court
OF claims. His other bill seeks to dis
tribute among the loyal Delawares in
Oklahoma 10000 acres of lands as
military bounty.
Senator Bailey introduced a bill
Tuesday asking for 5000 nm for fed
eral building at Amarillo.
Representative Smith introduced
bills to appropriate 100000 for a pub
lie building at Balinger and 100000
for building at Stamford.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-12-16
DOMESTIC.

The report of the bureau of statis-
tics of the agricultural department on
the winter wheat outlook gives for
Texas a contemplated acreage of
1,295,OO0 which is an increase OF 40
per cent over that of 1908. The con.
dition December l is stated at SO, the
ten-year average being 81. The con-
dition of the crop in the whole United
States is placed at S5.S, the ten-year
average being 91.5.
Following the posting of the cotton
crop report estimate of 10,0SS,OO0
bales on the cotton exchange in New
Orleans Friday, the future market
took jump which ranged from % to
40 points. May cotton went to Ice, es-
tablishing new high record for the
season. Estimates were 100000 bales
below the figures of the most san
guine bulls.
The department of agriculture for
the State of Texas on Friday issued
its ginners' report for November,
showing 2,0S4, 403 bales of cotton
ginned In Texas up to Dec. l this
year as compared with 1,s9S,946 bales
reported glnned up to the same time
last year.
The sudden disappearance of the
Bowers Southern Dredging Company's
tug Jimmie still remains mystery.
Up to short time after midnight Fri.
day nothing definitely had been
learned at Galveston which would
throw any light on the case.
Blood poisoning from the peck of a
turkey ON Thanksgiving Day has
caused the death at Sayville, N. Y, of
William Tucker, 81 years old. Mr..
Tuker settled there about sixty years
ago and the town was for many years
known as Tuckertown.
Lost in the terrific snow of Novem-
Der 81, the body Of uncle jack Leon
ard was found Friday near Amarillo,
frozen rigid. twelve miles from the
point where he left his wagon and
team. The old man doubtless wan
dered after leaving his wagon until
benumbed and sank to his death.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-12-16

George Crocker's gift to Columbia
University, to be used for the investi-
cation of cancer. OF which he died in
New York city on Sunday last, will
amount to S1,50O,000, according to the
terms of his will.
The temperature nearly all over In,
diana Wednesday made long drop to
zero. Telegraph and telephone wires
snapped and high winds threw down
the poles in many directions. Several
interurban railroads were impeded by
the snow.
The two children of the late Mary
Croker Burton Harrison, will inherit
nearly $2,OO0,0O0 each from the estate
left by their mother, according to the
account of the executors, which has
Just been approved by the New York
supreme court.
The police estimate that in the last
two years the pawnbrokers in Wash
ington have been fleeced of about ST.
900, probably more, by man who says
he is Frederick R. Rice of Chicago. He
is locked up charged with embezzle-
ment. Rices plan, the police say, was
to buy diamonds on credit and pawn
them.
The Phoenix Insurance Company of
Brooklyn is under investigation for IT.
regularities, which report has 1t have
impaired its surplus by at least $1,000
900.
Acting under instructions from
Judge Calhoun, the jury Tuesday rem
dered verdict acquitting Henry Clay
Pierce Of the charges of perjury and
false swearing made against him by
indictment In connection with the afr
davit which he made at the time the
Waters Pierce Oil Company was grant
ed permit to do business in Texas.
Bishop Danield A. Goodsell of the
Methodist Episcopal church is seri-
ously i'll at his home in New York
City, following an operation per
formed few days ago for the remov-
al of a growth on his neck.
The engagement of Miss Louise w.
Taft, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
w. Taft, of Seattle and niece of the
President of the United States, to
George H. Snowden of Seattle, Wash,
and of the class of 1907, Yale, has
been announced.
When hogs sold at $40 hundred
pounds at the stock yards in Kansas
City Tuesday record for twenty
seven years was established. In July,
1882, several carloads of hogs sold at
$3.50. This was due to cholera cpl
demic that had passed through the
country. The available supply of fat
hogs is the cause of the present high
price.
Henry e. Agar who was believed
to have been drowned in the Wabash
river in 1907 at Princeton, Ind, but
was found recently at San Benito,
Tex, was Tuesday denied new trial
on the charge of embezzlement, Of
which he was convicted few days
ago. Agar was given an indetermin-
ate sentence of from two to fourteen
years in the penitentiary and prob
ably will begin his term at Michigan
City this week.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-12-16
Duty Society owes to Unfortunates.


Consumption is primarily a poor
mans disease. DR.. Woods Hutchin-
son OF New York city says: Roughly
speaking, the incipient tuberculous pa
tient can buy as many chances Of
fresh air and cure as he has money"
The percentage OF deaths from con.
sumption among the poor is 100 per
cent, higher than among the well-to-do
and the rich. Sixty-five per cent Of
the consumptives in the United States
are too poor to provide proper means
for treatment. They must either be
placed in a sanitarium or a hospital
where they can be cured Of their dis
ease and where they will be removed
from the possibility of injecting other
members of their families, or the loss
resulting from neglect to care for
these poor consumptives will be twice
or three times as great as would be
the case If they are properly housed
in institutions.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-12-16

Newzance-Do you know, young
man, that five out of six people who
suffer from heart trouble have brought
1t upon themselves through the filthy
habit of smoking?
Karmley-Really! And possibly
you are aware that nine out Of ten
people who suffer from black eyes
can trace the complaint to habit
of not Winding their own business
Pearson's Weekly.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-04
ENDS COMPETITION IN
GAS AND ELECTRICITY
Merged Company to Assume Control
of Petroleum Product Field in
Exchange for LytIe Creek
Power Plant

SAN BERNARDINO, Sept. 3.-Com-
pleting the merger of the San Bernar-
dino Valley Gas company, which re-
Gently took over all Independent gas
plants in this county. 1t was reliably
announced today that. effective Octo-
ber /, that company will assume con-
troll of the entire gas field of this city
in exchange with the San Bernardino
Gas and Electric company for the
Lytle Creek Power company, the inde-
pendent lighting company recently
purchased by the Valley company.
The deal will give the Valley people
an exclusive gas business, while the
San Bernardino company will be with
out competition in the electric business.
There was but little doubt from the
time the Valley company took over the
Home company and the Lytle Creek
Power company that the competition
which for the past five years has given
the city the lowest rate in the state
was at an end.
The price of gas has already been
raised to 81 by the San Bernardino peo-
pie, to be followed, it is stated, by an
additional % cents. The Valley gas is
now 81 and, according to the president
of the company, will be increased to
$1.25.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-04
GAMUT CLUB HOLDS UP
HIGHEST CIVIC IDEALS

east is swept by wind and snow and
they will find a gay outdoor life where
other cities are stamped with the Crime
and rush of an earnestness that knows
not how to play. 1t is a beautiful, en-
Viable role. 1t involves outside drives
as well as those within the city, but
even the latter develop into an admir-
able system and at amazingly low cost.
Yet in all the development there will
be great gain if the city can obtain
that authority which the cities of
Pennsylvania and Ohio have already
secured, and by which the great mu-
nicipal improvements of Europe and
South America have been tinanced-the
right to acquire property on the edge
of a public Improvement in order to
protect that improvement, and to re-
coup the cost Of making it by the re-
sale Of the property at the enhanced
values which the Improvement bestows
1 refer you to the Philadelphia law in
particular. 1t would be we'll, too, for
the city to make such contracts with
the owners of property abutting on the
boulevards and parkwaYs as are made
by the city of Cleveland with such
owners.
"And there must not be fear that the
plans are too elaborate, that Los An
geles will be doing too much. AS this
Is WIlILtus L IGttlNGu Il report OIL lIG
work in Rio de Janeiro A loan of
1885, 600, 900 was negotiated in 1908 for
improvements; in the construction of
single central boulevard $50 buildings
were destroyed; twenty miles of other
streets were widened, and the parks
connected by a system of boulevards.
The redemption of Los Angeles, it's re-
building on splendid lines-which we
have seen can be so easily accom-
plished-would be a far better invest
ment than that 1t is estimated that
in Paris Americans alone spend $780,
100000 every year.
But there is higher than financial
argument for lettering the city which
is your home and which your children
will inherit. The one thing needed is
something which Los Angeles is said
to have. viz: That spirit which looks
ahead. which grasps big ideas, which
is ready to pull together for the city's
good"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-04
TO FORM SOUTHWEST
IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE
CITIZENS OF SECTION WILL
MEET TONIGHT
Prominent Men to Address Residents,
Who Probably Will Organize Per-
manent Association-Band
Concerts Popular

A mass meeting of citizens of the
southwest section of the city will be
held this evening at Washington and
Cimarron. The meeting will be ad-
dressed by Joseph Scott, Niles Pease,
Stanley Fisher, Andrew G. Park, j.
Lamb Doty and others. Matters of in
terest to the entire southwestern sec
tion will be discussed by these gentle
men. And if sufficient interest is
aroused an Improvement association
will be organized
Some weeks ago a number of citi-
zens of the heights districts got to-
gether and decided to attemptsto arouse
a sentiment which would unite the
people in a movement for better things.
There Is a crying need of more schools
for all of the district from Wiltshire
to Jefferson. This is imperative. Many
of the children cannot be accommo-
dated in anything like a reasonable
distance from their homes, in these
newer sections. Something must be
done. There is a great need of better
fire protection. There should be bet
ter police protection. Many of the
people want parks, and this question
will be discussed. Branches of the pub
lie library should be placed at con-
venient places. There is need of bet
ter streets. In fact, the great new
west and southwest need things, want
things and must have things.
In starting this movement it was
thought best to arouse some local in
terest by a series of band concerts. Ac-
cordingly, Cramer's band was engaged
and has given concerts Saturday even
ings for a month past. The concerts
have proved very popular. and it Is
probable that thew will be continued as
long as the weather will permit. Aside
from the pleasure of hearing the music,
the people find them of social ad
vantage Neighbors and friends meet
in a way that is otherwise impossible.
Men of the neighborhood get together
and discuss the needs of the com
as they do not in any other
way. So popular have these concerts
grown that there is little doubt of their
becoming a permanent feature of the
summer life Of the locality. The
speaking tonight will be preceded by
the usual band concert beginning at
7 80 o'clock.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-04
Education Important Part
Reosnt Patents Granted

Brooks and Ladders, patent attorneys of Los
Angeles, report that Southern California in
ventors recently were granted United States
patents follows
Los Angeles-J. A. Bowden. for tire; E. F.
Busse, for gold separator; H. B. Cary, for
fruit szer; c. a. Hammel for combined steam
generator and superheater; c. w. Hicks. Tor
wave motor; S. n. Holly, for turbine and for
rotary motor; E. D. Hough and E. p. VIII
son, for fruit drying apparatus; j. M. Low
for portable placer mining apparatus; r. 9.
McCiay, for headlight: c. w. Sirch. for recti-
fer: A. Wagniere. for pencil vending ma
chine; H. NJ. Wood. for saw clamp.
Hermosa Beaeh--H. Morris, for flushing ap-
santa Monica-J. NJ Teach, for clothes dry
ing device.
s.Pasadena-E. NJ. Turner, for internal COM
bustion, engine.
tachment.
San Diego-P H. Goodwin, for life saving
and signal rocket.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-04
MRS. ANNIE BESANT MAKES
ADDRESS ON REINCARNATION
President of Theosophist Society Says
Religious Awakening Will Check
Tendency Toward Individuallsm

Mrs. Annie Besant spoke last night
at the Majestic theater on "Reincar-
nation" and tonight will deliver her
lecture on signs of the Coming Age
at the same place. She will give a
series of lectures beginning next
Wednesday evening at the rooms of
the Theosophical society.
In her lecture last night, Mrs. Besant
reviewed the indications showing in her
opinion the tendency toward individu-
alism, which, if continued, she thought
would destroy civilization, would be-
arrested by counteracting movement
toward a great religious awakening.
She declared the mysticism evidencing
itself in all religions was an outcrop-
ping of theosophy.
The lecturer said first of all must
come a great religious movement, and
that after this would appear the poll
tical and economic movements, all
three making for the cooperative COM
mOnWealth.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-04
ADVANCE PLANNING OF OUTLYING
RESIDENT REGIONS NECESSARY TO
ATTAINMENT OF CITY BEAUTIFUL

Streets Improved by Realty Dealers, Garish Houses
and Ramshackle Bungalows Prevent Carrying
Out Artistic Plans for CenterS and Ra-
dating Avenues, Flanked by Green
Trees and by Lakes and Parks
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-04

kkn NE HUNDRED per cent ef-
ficiency of the buildings,
" parks and streets of Los An
geles' is a slogan rof the Gamut club.
In the east winter snows and weather
may reduce efficient use of out-of- doors
to less than 80 per cent, but In Los
Angeles there is NO reason why this
efficiency should not be made full
measure.
The ideals to vFh ich Los Angeles
should look and mentioned by Charles
Mulford Robinson in his report on the
city beautiful emphasize this condi-
ton. ''rhe ideal to be kept in mind in
developing Los Angeles" he says
while the municipality must have an
individuality of its own, ought to be
much nearer that of a continental city
in Europe than of the typical American
city.
LAS in foreign capitals there should
be provision for a large class of pleas
ure seekers of moderate means, and for
enjoyment of the sunshine and fresh
air.
I'm other words, there should be
AMPLE FACILITIES FOR SITTING
OUT OF DOORS"
And agoin in his summing up, Mr..
Robinson says:
"All through the report 1 have tried
to show what 1 thought should be the
municipal ideal toward which Los An
geles should develop--the point of view
that should be taken. Not to be simply
big, but to be beautiful as well. Not
TO be content with narrow, crowded
streets, with meanness of aspect and
a modelling after cities where lives must
be spent indoors, but to be spacious,
handsome, as a capital city, the streets
Turing one out of doors, and offering
so many drives and giving one so much
to do that tourists will not pass
through Los Angeles.
"They will stay here, in real Paris
of America'-a summer city, when the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-04
Expert Urges Decorative Art Commission

to make reasonable provision for ten
ants. and in training the people to
make the most of their surroundings
We have had unique housing conditions
in what we call our house courts. 10
the investigation and correction OF this
phase Of the city's home life the hous-
ing commission gave its first energies
a very encouraging beginning has been
made, but number of other helus nave
not yet been touched.
step by step we are determined to
go until the housing conditions of our
iowliest citizens are improved to the
point where a real home is possible. We
hope to see the day when every man
within our boundaries shall have
chance to live like a man and so to be
a man and vote like a free man."
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-04
BY NICHOLAS A. KARPATY

I ingless and hideous things together
are termed bungalows.
Some Good Bungalows
There is no excuse whatever for these
monstrosities. Miss Beckley showed us
remarkably well in her critique on
churches that Just as much damning
decoration can be produced with a lit
tie money as with a great deal" OF
course, some of our bungalows are lit
orally a good Mission Renaissance type
from threshold to the ceiling, and we
have also a number of other we'll
planned houses but these few eXcep-
tions do not make a city beautiful.
Miss Beckley is in the right when she
says: "A church is not only a church
but an architectural expression that
should stimulate the neighborhood to
a consistent and methodical expansion
of adjoining estates, so may we hope
for the city beautiful l claim that
a residence may not be the mere prop
erty of a certain individual who for
some reason or another may transform
his or her estate as he or she may
choose. Municipal and state prOYis-
ions should be secured against the
erection of irrational forms and in
artistic expressions in buildings. Every
property owner should have a right
of protection as to the kind of build
district, and the assurance that the
owner will not have the value of his
property destroyed by the erection of
a mOnstrosity next door.
Wants Advisory Board
There should be a decorative ad
visOry board appointed for this city,
where contemplating builders should
receive professional advice pertaining
to their prospective buildings, free of
charge to them, 1t will then be i'm
possible for every quack to material
ize his or her nonsensical scheme 1t
would provide public protection
against so-called experts in their spe-
cial crafts, who sometimes are illit-
crate on their own subject; thus pro-
ceeding to spoil the appearance of the
city with their freakish ideas. Such
guiding ideas certainly would prevent
the "dwarfing of the columns on which
the city's newest and most perfect ar
chitectural dome is placed-an effect
created simply because its so-called
decorator was color blind
The space for this article does not
permit me to go into further details
of city planning about the necessity
of a premeditated fixing of compar-
ative width, straightness and types of
streets beautiful" in the expanding of
new quarters of the city and the me-
thodical improvement of the old ones
But we venture to say that no one
should ever be able to obtain a build
ing permit until proper plans have
been provided for the future of the
whole district in question
1t is the city governments luty to
stipulate plans for a coherent exterior
as well as interior Identification, to
which all buildings must conform.
Decoration to be good must be con-
sistent, to be valuable 1t must be his
toric. Results that are harmonious
are those that are orderly, and every
one seeking true decorative effects
must steer clear of the shoals of an
achronism. But little as the theory
may appeal to some minds, we ven
ture to say that convention and pro-
priety are the attributes necessary to
any correct form of the arts decora-
tive