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VOLUME XXX
HENDERSON- RUSK COUNTY. TEXAS- THURSDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1889-
NUMBER 49
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Inexhaustible Deposits
of Iron Ore in Rusk
County.
|' gullies washed through the superim- 12 or 14 miles in an air line from the j above mentioned, is in a direction
! posed soil- and sand, expose the ore; stinting point above mentioned, south of east from the mam knob of
3rd, in some few places the ore is i There are thousands of acres situated j iron mountain and about 4 or 5 miles
Also lignite. Limestone. Marl,
and Other Valuable Sub-
stances.
THOUSANDS OF ACR^S OF
LAND COVERED WITH
THE FINEST TIMBER,
CONSISTING OF
Pine, Hickory, Cypress. Wal-
nut, Ash, Sweet Gum,
Oak, Etc., Etc.
A Soil Well Adapted to the
Growth of Peaches, Pears,
Apples and Other* Fruits
Peculiar to this Climate.
A Graphic Letter by a Scientific
Man.
Gould, Texas,")
April 29, 1889,}
Jol. Jas. H. Jones,
Henderson, Texas,
Dear Sir:—Until recently the nat-
ural resources of East Texas attracted
but little attention. This was due in
part to the want of sufficient enter-
prise in our people, and in part to the
lack of reliable information concern-
ing this section of country.
The geological surveys of Texas
made in 1858-9 and in 1873-4 were
meager and superficial; but the pres-
ent survey, if continued a sufficient
length of time, promises a more thor-
ough geological reconnoisance of the
State. In 1888 Prof. Lawrence C.
Johnson, of the U. S. Geological Sur-
vey, visited this section and made *a
survey to determine the geological
horizon and geographical extent of
the iron ores of Eastern Texas. He
determined the extent of the iron
fields here to be from the Sabine
river and Louisiana line on the east
to Robertson county on the south-
west, and from the southern limit of
the red lands in Nacogdoches county
bared or denuded of its sandy cover-
ing and shows up as a pavement
spreading entirely across the top of
the mountain.
The iron bearing buttes of south-
ern Rusk county reach an elevation of
600 to 625 feet above tide water.
Those of Nacogdoches and Cherokee
appear to be about the same height.
They are terraced, or rather have a
series of benches which owe then-
origin, doubtless, to landslides. The
benches are covered to a greater or
less degree, with the same kind of
ore as that at the top; and fragments
are found in greater or less profusion,
scattered along down the mountain
sides to the valley below.
The principal deposit of iion ore in
Rusk county is at Iron mountain, 18
miles by road from Henderson (the
county seat) and 16 miles in an air
line towards the south-west. This
mountain is described by Prof. John-
son, and the following section given:
on the tops of the range of elevated 1 distant. Another bed of this lime-
plateaus just described, and besides j stone crops out some 2 or 3 miles
the ore being valuable both in quau- j miles north-east of the Doyle place,
tity and quality, it has a shallow cov-! and between there and Mt. Enter-
ering, probably not exceeding 4 or 5 j prise. It again makes its appear-
feet on large areas, thus making the ; ance at several places around Min-
easy
feet.
1.
2.
gray
and
3.
4.
5.
1 to 12
1 to 2
3
10 to 30
Loose sand,
yellow
Iron ore (brown limon-
ite from
Average
Reddish clay, no fossils,
Yellow indurated fer-
ruginous sand with in-
numerable fossils, low-
er beds green sand un-
altered, 10 to 100
Whitish water-bearing
sand, unknown depth, 10 to 100
It will be observed that No. 1 in
the above section is estimated „to be
only from 1 to 12 feet in depth,
which is a light covering as compared
with some other places in East Texas
where the ore is valuable and where
the covering, as estimated by Prof.
Johnson, is from 1 to 20, and 1 to 30
and 20 to 30 feet in depth.
Prof. Johnson in speaking of the
ore at Rusk in Cherokee county, says:
"As the varieties of iron ore found in
this locality may be considered typ-
ical of all the iron ore found west of
the Sabine basin, I insert the analysis
made by Cheauvenet & Bro., St.
on the south, to Cass county on the ; Louis shown me by the officers of the
north. He found iron occurring in i penitentiary." We may, therefore,
the Counties of Cass, Morris, Camp, apply these analysis to the ores of
Upshur, Marion, Harrison, Gregg, j Rusk county, which are as follows:
Smith, Henderson, Cherokee, Rusk, analysis of ore.
Panola, Shelby, Nacogdoches, Ander- No. 1. brown solid or dark buff.
son, Houston, Leon and Robertson.!
In several of these counties he reports j \yaten
the stratum of ore thin, or of limited | Siliceous matter,
area, or in other respects unimpor- Sesquioxide of iron,
taut. He found the most valuable Phosphorus,
deposits, as regards both quality and P U1'
quantity, to be in Cherokee, Rusk Total,
and ^Nacogdoches counties on the Metalic Iron 45.17 per cent.
2." bluff crumbly ore.
PER CENT.
15.250
20.360
• 64.520
0.062
0.038
100.230
Bouth and west of the Sabine basin,
no-
15.760
23.840
0.315
0.010
59.040
Total, 98.956
Metalic iron 40.63 per cent.
no. 4. laminated brown ore.
Water, 13.710
Siliceous matter, 16.620
Sesquioxide of iron, 69,000
Phosphorous, 0.284
Sulphur, 0.027
and in Marion and Cass counties on } Water,
the north. In an article in the Gal-1 Sdex (siliceous matter?)
veston News reviewing the report of
the present State Geological Survey,j Sesquioxide 0f iron,
the iron region of East Texas is men
tioned as "the great iron fields of
Cherokee and Rusk counties."
Nearly all the ore found in this
section is the Brown limonite or bag
iron variety. It occurs principally
in three forms: the laminated, the
"bluff crumbly" or coarsely granular,
and the heavy compact or massive. Total, 99.641
The pot and fossiliferous ores are Metalic iron 48.31 per cent,
found in lower strata, and are very Dj-. Penrose, of the present survey,
well developed in some places. On j in hig report, says "the best grades
still lower levels, vast quantities of j Eastern Texas ores usually analyze
ferruginuus conglomerates are met from 40 to 50 per cent of metalic
with, in some localities. Ciay iron- jron The phosphorous and sulphur
stone, an impure carbonate of iron,: compose from 1-10 to 1-2 per cent of
occurs in some of die lower strata. ore. No other injurious ingredi-
The spathic ore, a comparatively I entg are found init
pure and crystallized carbonate of. Iron Mountain situated partly in
iron is required in the Bessemer pro- j southern Rusk county and partly in
and is much in demand. So far j north-western Nacogdoches, is com-
posed of several knobs or rather a
1 chain of knobs. The largest lies on
the north-western flank. The flat
removal of the ore for use an
and inexpensive matter.
These mountains are heavily wood-
ed with postoak, red oak, black jack,
hickory, and other varieties; and in
some places they are covered with
pine. The surrounding country is
densely timbered. The lignites are
found close at hand.
Something might be said of the
quality of iron made from the ore of
this section. Prof. Johnson in speak-
ing of the Car Wheel Foundry at
Marshall in Harrison county, says of
the East Texas iron:
made here have a high reputation." i
Prof. Durable, the present State geol-
den, which is about 5 miles west "of
north from Mt. Enterprise. It oc-
curs in several other places in Rusk
county. This limestone was used
here during the late war, for making
lime and smelting iron ore.
We may now give the coal ques-
tion some consideration. About all
that can be said of bitumenous coal
is, that it has not been discovered in
this section of country. A careful
scientific search for it has not been
made. By bearing down a sufficient
depth it may be found. The strata
"Thecar wheels ' "l this region, have been so little dis-
turbed by volcanic action, that it is
is difficult to determine certainly what
ogist, says: "The iron from these may 'je f°lm^ below the exposed
ores is unexcelled for many grades of strata, without boaring dowru "We
castings, such as car wheels, agricul- - have a vast amount of lignite of
cultural implements, etc., on account various qualities. That found best
of its chilling properties." The Age| protected and in the lower strata is
of Steel, in an article on the iron en | vei7 g00^-
terprises at Rusk, Cherokee county
says; "The results obtained at the
Rusk penitentiary demonstrate that
the ores obtained from the district un-
der consideration produce an iron em-
inently adapted for foundry purposes,
having tenacity, fluidity and chilling
properties. Immediately joining the
State furnace is a pipe foundry, where
cast iron water pipes are made from
iron run direct from the blast fur
nace into a receiving ladle. As these
pipes to meet the requirements of
engineer's specifications must be cast
thin, and subjected to a hydraulic
test, under a pressure of 300 pounds
per square inc h, some of the quali-
ties of the iron are exhibited in their
manufacture. An examination of
broken pieces of pipe or casting-
showed a very satisfactory fracture."
It further states that "the Helmback-
er Forge & Rolling Mill Co.," of St.
Louis, made the following test: A
bar (of East Texas Iron) § inch
square, separated under a tensile
strain of 53.200 pounds." And again,
"It is a further remarkable fact that
thisjore is used in the furnace without
any mixture whatever, the furnace at
Rusk being run for months at a time
from a single bench. A large share
of the iron produced at the Rusk fur-
nace is consumed in the pipe and
general foundry connected therewith,
and they have never used a ton of
foreign iron as a mixture. This can-
not be said of the product of any
other furnace in the coiintry. All
the gas and water pipe is cast direct
from the smelting furnace." The Age
of Steel further says: "The car
wheel works at Marshall, Texas, have
been in operation for nearly ten years
and during that time they have used
iron from this field exclusively and
with the most magnificent results. |
Then- wheels have a record of over
100,000 miles, and according to rail-
road managers this is far in excess of
the ayerage life of ordinary wheels."
This section of country is of the
Tertiary formation, or rather belongs
t j that period. 'The Tertiary period,
as it occurs in Eastern Texas, com-1
prises four groups or epochs: the j
White Limestone, the Mansfield, the
If it underlies the lime-
stone formations above described, it
will be of good quality and can be
easily mined. If the limestone is on
its original level as compared with the
surrounding country, it probably
covers lignite, for the coal is found on
lower levels in the vicinity of the
lime deposits. The lignite is by far
the largest coal field in Texas. It
begins on the east of the Sabine river
and extends across the State to the
Rio Graude. It includes 54 counties.
Four; possibly five, strata of lignite
have been recognized, some of which
to 20 feet in thick-
the others being from a few in-
average from 18
in injUUCU IU mc '
cess,
* I
as I know this ore has not been dis-
covered in Eastern Texas; but it may
be found here in connection with the !
clay ironstone. top 0f tiie hill is over a mile in length
The pot and fossiliferous are the from north to south and some less
fossil bearing ores of this section, j than half a mile in breadth; and at
The fossiliferous consists of a massj the northwest it turns towards the
of shells, mostly bivalves, petrified east or north-east, the flat top of
about a mile in length
and
ness,
ches to 5 feet. The article in the
Galveston News above cited, says of
the uses of lignite coal: "In Europe,
where fuel is scarcer than here, lig-
nites of much poorer quality than
ours are principally used, not only as
fuel for domestic purposes, but also
for smelting furnaces. Furnaces of
simple construction have been. con-
j trived where lignite has been made to
do full duty as fuel for any puipose.
In addition to this they are also re-
duced to powder and compressed into
briquettes which have a cementiing
of asphaltum. This class of fuel is
used almost exclusively on the French
railroads." " The finding of asphal-
tum so plentifully in Texas makes
this plan of utilization an easy ac-
complishment, and compressed bricks
made from Texas lignite and Texas
asphaltum can be made equal to any
coal now brought into the State for
steam and domestic use, and at a
price below the cheapest of them.
Ail this we have said about coal is a
little else than a verbatim transcript
of Mr. Dumble's report." The
amount of sulphur contained in these
lignites is variable. Prof. Durable
says; "In some places we have a
good clean lignite, almost if not en-
tirely free from sulphur."
This entire section of country is
well timbered. Thousands of acres
are covered in fine pineries in the
counties of Rusk, Panola, Shelby and
Nacogdoches. The pines are tall and
well bodied. White oak and hickory
of fine quality abound in the bottoms.
Post oak, red oak, black jack and
! other varieties of oak, and rough hick-
the greensaud.
seen, the bivalves occur in greater
abundance than the univalves.
Some of the upper strata of this for-
mation are more or less altered, oc-
curring as a.yellowish, soft, fossili-
ferous rock, but still retaining much
of thei;- fertilizing properties. In
some places the greensand is indura-
ted, fofirling a more or less hard
rock, '-Jiicli seems to weather badlv,
especially When" constantly exposed
to the action of wajUii-. It is lieed-
and casts,* with the intervening! Negroes Bound for the Happy
spaces filled with glanconitic mate- i Land—All Aboard tor
rial. In some localities the fossils j Lioeria.
are arranged in strata, while in oth-j Memphis Avalauclie.
ers they are thoroughly mixed with ; Those members of the negro race
So far as I have j who consider themselves down-trod-
den and oppressed in the South and
who long for the land of their fa-
thers, have glowing inducements
7 O O
held out to them by the United
States and Congo National Emigra-
tion Steamship Company, which is
at present flooding the country with
circulars giving all the necessary
info mation. The "offer is made,"
the company declares, "to expedite
the friendly separation of the races
now confronting each ether at the
our domes-
tic complications into commercial
relations with the Blackmail's Re-
public ot Liberia." This is indeed a
cheerful prospect, and we urge the
down-trodden man and brother to
consider it seriously and ask himself
if the opportunity thus offered is one
to be neglected. The company
states that "passengers will be re-
ceived on cantonments in the healthy
back country, and will obtain al-
ready secured from the Black Man's
Government of Liberia, homesteads
on the most fertile land on earth,
abounding in fruits and vegetables,
where they can raise with little ef-
fort two crops of cotton, sugar, rice
or coffee, besides the great ^ereals.
Ten acres to the single and twenty
acres to the married bona fide emi-
grant await their arrival. They
will not be exposed to miasmatic in-
fluences but conveyed inland, on ar-
rival."
Nothing is said about a mule, and
we are afraid there will not be an
overplus of passenger coaches, hotels
and theaters m the promised land to
dispute possession of with the
whites.
But then there is the Black Man's
Government to think about. It can
never be had in this country, and if
nothing else will make the darkies
happy they should accept the offers
of cheap passage before the rates are
raised, something the company
threatens to do "unless a subsidy
shall be approximated by Congress
to aid the exodus." We regret to
be obliged to say that in our opinion
Congress will do nothing of the
kind.
less to mention the fertilizing quali- South and to transmute
ties of greensand, for these are too
well known. This fertilizer' ijeeds
no acid or alkaline treatment; it
only requires to be spread on the
land and nature prepares it for plant
food. It. will, no doubt, give more
speedy returns if crushed or ground
before applying to the soil. In this
section of country greensand is one
of the greatest natural fertilizers.
To it our red lands, valleys and bot-
toms owe much of their fertility.
Much more might be said of the
glanconitic morals of the Eocene.
There are several Varieties of soil
here: the gray, the dark, and the
"mulatto" or red, sandy loams, and
the red lands, which are more or
less stiff. The bottoms have very
nearly the same varieties, only the
soil is generally somewhat stiffer
and darker. Black lands of a stiff
quality, but not sticky or waxy,
occurs m some localities, especially
in the bottoms. The soil ranges
from six inches to three feet or
more in depth, and generally fertile.
The country presents an undulating
surface. There are very few plains
of much extent, and no high moun-
tains, the iron-bearing buttes being
the most elevated portions of land
in this section. These lands are
well adapted to the growth of corn,
cotton, fruits, vegetables, potatoes,
mellons, berries, etc., and other
products of this climate. Ribbon
cane flourishes on our bottom
lands.
This section of country claims at-
tention as a fruit growing region.
For peaches and pears it is unex-
celled. On the more elevated sandy
lands the peach hits a crop almost
every year, and the fruit is well-
grown and of excellent flavor. The
pear does well on almost any of our
lands, but flourishes on the loose,
richer soils. This country is also
specially adapted to the growth of
the grape. Apples do well, as do
also many other fruits of this
climate.
are abundant
both
Sweet
o
the
up-
^ and sugar tree are plentiful;
maple
Claiborne, and the Lignite. The
last three groups are met with in j 01T
Rusk county. I am of the opinion: lands and bottom
that the Cretaceous formation is at black gum, ash, block walnut
no great depth m this region, at least
in some localities. The geological
position of the lacrustine ores of this
section is immediately above the yel- ■ finely bodied tree. Cypress is plen-
low marls of the Claiborne group ot tiful in some places, especially in the
the Eocene Tertiary, from which they
m tact
sweet gum occurs in great abun-
dance in the bottoms, and it is a tall,
into limcnite, with a soft, yellow ■ which is
clayey matrix or material filling the j some less than a half mile in breadth,
spaces between the shells in some j A smaller prolongation extends from
specimens, while in others the clayey the inside angle towards the south
filling is more or less impregnated • east, the flat top of which is about
with, or replac id by, brown limonite. j half a mile in breadth. The inter-
The three principal forms of ore, as : vening area between the several pro-
they occur in this section, occupy a j longations of this butte is, in a great
stratum or strata at or near the tops ! measure, made up of benches bearing
of the iron bearingbuts, or mountains,' ore. 'Towards the south-west a chain
as they are here called. These of the iron-bearing kuobs extend to a
.buttes or elevated plateaus form a distance of 3^ or 4 miles, and the
marked feature of this section of flat tops of which are from ^ to a
country, They were carved by com- mile in breadth. To the north-east-
para tively recent den undat ion from an ward the principal knob, above de-
cider plain. The limonite ore beds scribed, is connected by a chain of
are separated by a stratum of red and
peculiarly mottled clay. Cretaceous
islands are found in Anderson, Cher-
okee, Smith and Van Zandt counties.
Limestone of vital importance for a
use as a flux in smeltinj
Sabine bottom. Beach and birch are
also met with in greater or less abun-
dance in some localities. There are
several other varieties of timber and
wood here, of less importance than
those mentioned.
Eastern Texas has valuable de-
Rusk county has an abundance of
good water, furnished by both
wells and springs. It is watered by
the Sabine river and its tributaries
on the north, and the numerous
tributaries of the Angelina on the
south and southwest. It has quite
a number of mineral springs, prin-
cipally ferruginans. The climate is
mild and healthful.
With the extensive and abundant
deposits of iron ore of superior qual-
ity, the limestone, the coal, the
great abundance of wood, the ex-
tensive forests of fine timber, the
building stones and fire clays, the
vast deposits of greensand, and the
fertile lands adapted to the growth
of the various products of this
climate, together with the abundant
water supply and the mild and
healthful climate, the outlook is
certainly good for an early, steady
and progressive industrial develop-
ment of this section of country.
Yours very truly,
W. 1). IIOLLEMAN.
in
the
The Farm.
Dallas News.
Col. Daniel Dennett says
New Orleans Picayune:
"Any one who this year has had
crops on land well plowed and deep-
ly pulverized, and crops on land
plowed shallow, must have been
pressed with the difference of the
crops on land well and badly plowed.
In drouths the roots must have plen-
ty of room in a deep, mellow, rich
soil, or short crops and failures may
be expected. - Subsoil deep and cul-
tiyate shallow."
Shallow cultivation gains nv>re
friends as it is better understood. It
is Jeff Welborn's method, and by it
ho makes corn and cotton hump
themselves to beat the drouth.
Shallow cultivation should, of course,
be preceded by deep plowing.
A correspondent of the St. Louis
Journal of Agriculture declares that
farmers' lack of prosperity is their
own fault. He says:
"Yes, sir, your selfish nature and
prejudices keep you in the rut and
you vote and work own interests.
You are envious of your neighbor's
prosperity and would rather hear of
his downfall, though it profit you
not a cent, than to learn of his .pros-
perity. Will you deny that in your
dealings with neighbors same as Mr.
Monopoly that it is a regular
scheming process? Yerily, are a
great many screws loose, and until
you are willing to practice right
measures you have no right to cen-
sure others for not doing it. We
view matters and motiyes of the
masses j ust about as they existed at
Jerusalem wThen the Savior in his
exhortation warned the people of
the dangers arising from their wick-
edness."
This is putting the case too strong.
It is probable that prejudice has
something to do with farmers' hap-
piness and possibly with their pros-
perity, but this is due more to the
persistent cotldling of demagogue
politicians than to the farmer's natu-
ral meanness. The charge that far-
mers rejoice in a neighbor's down-
fall is absolutely untrue and un-
founded. Farmers may not be bet-
ter than other people, but they are
no worse. Reputable papers ought
not to publish such silly letters.
Sun Scintillations.
Broker Bond—What's the differ-
ence between President Harrison
and me?
Broker Stocks—I give it up.
Broker Bond—The President is
after ducks and I am after ducats.
"The Prohibitionists will never
gam the ascendancy "
"Think not?"
"No. Isn't the rainbow a remind-
er of the promise that man will nev-
er again be overwhelmed by water?'.
"Well, Tom, do you ever write to
your financee?"
"Oh, yes, three times a
only see her on Monday,
day, Friday and Sunday."
"There are five of the guests un-
der the table and I can't move 'em."
"Get old Col. Blowhard to make
a speech and they'll get up and leave wait until next year
j of their own accord."
I
j "Do you take after your father?"
| "Yes, these trousers were liis'n
i before I got 'em. Yer see he's big-
ger'n me."
week. I
Wednes-
curs in the Cretaceous islands in the i posits of brick and fire clays, glass
Mansfield beds. There is a limestone sands, and building stones, which
formation, oi the Mansfield series,
cropping out at several places around
the Doyle old mill and southward and
south-westward from there. This
limestone was examined in 1858-9
"The human race is a great
one,
was
by the State geologist, who pro-
nounced it a good variety of hydraul-
ic cement lime. I have not tested it,
to find out whether or not it belongs
to the "water lime" group, It has a
yellowish, dirty-cream color on the
exposed surface, and a deep gray hue
or strata were formed in that older
epoch, at the bottoms of the bogs,
lakes and bays into which flowed the
streams laden with ferrous oxide.
The lacrustrine ores extend from side
to side or entirely through the moun-
tains. The facts upon which this
with a yellowish tinge within; and an
ore bearing buttes with Mt. Entei- eXpOSUie 0f ;l fi-esh surface, for a time
prise 8 miles distant. About a mile j the yelk).v eolor sil0,vs iuueh better
east of the main knob, the chain is ^ian when the stone i s first broken,
about 2£ miles in breadth. From the jn some places this limestone is full
of crocks or veins, which are filled
calcite. The lime-
main knob a chain'of the iron-bearing
k-
^-1 *
mountains entends south-ward across
: the East Angelina river into Nacogd- j w-^n a pale yellow
opinion rests are as follows: 1st, in oches county, thence in a southerly! stone *s extremely hard, and so far
digging wells on top of these buttes j turning to a southeasterly and east- j as I have examined it, is destitute of
or hills, the ore is always struck; 2nd,1 erlv direction to a distance of about visible shells. The, Do vie old mill.
combine variety and beauty with
strength and durability, and bulir-
stone. Rusk county has its share of
these materials, but space
their consideration here.
'The green sand of this section of
country is now attracting some at-
tention, both as regards the quality
and quantity. It is here, a forma-
tion of considerable extent, and
probably from 5 or 10 to 100 teet in
thickness. It generally contains
more or less fossils, both bivalves
and univalves. A common fossd of
the green sand, the exogyra eostata,
is found in some strata; at least
this is my opinion drawn from an
examination of quite a number of
fragments of casts and impressions.
In some places this formation is very
| fossiliferous, being composed of a
mass of shells, or shell impressions
Minority Rule in Kansas.
Waco Day.
The State of Kansas has outgrown
its constitution, which was adopted
in 1861. The objectionable feature,
which it seems cannot be easily got
rid of, is that clause which provides
that each county shall have at least
one representative in the lower
house and that the total number
forbids j shalt always be limited to 125 mem-
| bers. There are now 110 members,
and as the sparsely settled counties
in the western part of the State are
each entitled to one member there
are fifteen extra to be divided anion"
said he.
"Yes,"' said the widow, to whom
he was engaged; "I am now on the
second lap."
"What do you think of that crazy
quilt?"
"Perfect. You should send it to
the asylum."
"Pop, what does non compos
mentis mean?
"That, my son, is a mind without
B. W. Perkins, who represents
the Third Kansas District in Con-
gress, will attempt to wrest the Sen-
atorial nomination from Ingalls. The
fact that the cause of prohibition is
weakening may be gathered from
the position he has taken on the
question. "I think," he said the
other day, "the Republican party is
in danger if it doesn't take hold of
the resubmission question and allow
the people to vote. I think if the
question should be ypted on today
prohibition would be lost. There
has been a wonderful change in sen-
timent on that question in the last
year. I doubt if the State adminis-
tration will call an extra session of
tiie Legislature to consider the ques-
tion. The question would receive
less liberal treatment by the present
Legislature, anyhow, than with the
one elected on that issue. Let them
and let the
! question come up in electing a Leg-
j lslature and something can be done."
| It is a good sign of the times when
Ivansas, the hotbed of sham and
| hypocrisy and fraud, shows signs of
j discontent with the cause which
j combines all of those three qualities.
—Memphis Avalanche.
Talmage m Athens.
AxiiErs, Nov. 22.—Rev. De Witt
Talmage and his party are in this
city. Dr. Talmage has secured a
corner stone for his new church in
Brooklyn from Mars Hill, where St.
Paul preached to the Athenians.
The Reason Why They Have
Bad Health.
Memphis Avalanche.
"1 am surprised to see so few la-
dies in the house," remarked a tlieat-
; leal man a few nights ago, when a
strong attraction was presented at
M Ins Theater. The night
u as dai k and_ the air heavy with
mist.
"The weather keeps them at
home," was suggested.
"The weather! Why, up North
ladies think nothing of goins; out a
night like this," said the first speak-
er. "They put on their thick shoes
and water-proofs and skip right
along.) I notice another difference
"i customs. The ladies who passed
iu tonight all wore white skirts.
Our Yankee girls wear colored skirts
in wet weather, and it strikes me
they have the call on their Southern
sisters there."
The visiting thespian might have
gone farther and said that Southern
women dress with a surprissing dis-
regard for their health. The shoes
they wear in the streets in the cold-
est and most disagreeable weather
are nothing less than open bids for
pneumonia and consumption. The
soles are scarce thick enough to wear
indoors, and afford but little more
protection to their feet than a sheet
of letter paper wTould. Of five la-
dies who waited for a street car on a
prominent corner yesterday but one
wore rubbers and the other four had
on thin-soled shoes, such as Northern
and English women would consider
hardly sufficient in June.
There must be a special providence
for the protection of the health of
our fair dames and damosels. Oth-
erwise few of them would reach
middle age.
Correct.
Greenville Herald.
Do not jest with your wife upon a
subject in which there is danger of
wounding her feelings. Remember
that she treasures every word you
utter, tliouph you never think of it
again. Do not speak of some virtue
in another man's wife to remind your
own of a fault. Do not reproach
your wife with personal defect, for,
if she has sensibility, you inflict a
wound difficult to heal. Do not
treat your wife with inattention in
company. Do not upbraid her in
in the presence of a third person, nor
entertain her with praising the beau-
ty and accomplishments of other
women. Do not be stern and silent
in your house, and remarkable for
sociability elsewhere. Remember,
that your wife has as much need of
recreation as yourself, and devote a
portion of at least your leisure hours
to such society and amusements as
she may join. By so doing you will
secure her smiles and increase her
affection.
Here is a ticket that is worthy of
consideration by the people, though
not in any sense a combination slate:
for governor, J. W. Throckmorton,
of Collin; for lieutenant-governor,
S. C. Upshaw, of IIill; for comp-
troller, Ed Linn, of Victoria; for
treasurer, W. B. Wortham, of Trav-
is; for land-commissioner, R. M. Hall,
of Grayson; for attorney-general, J.
S. Hogg, of Smith; for superintend-
ent of public instruction, O. II.
Cooper, of Rusk. A majority if not
all of the gentlemen named will have
strong support in the Democratic
convention as candidates for the po-
sitions in connection with which
their names are aboye given. Mr.
Hogg may decline to stand for at-
torney-general, .but the Reflector
hopes not.—Ilillsboro Reflector.
Christianity not a Failure.
Hillsboro lieflector.
Christianity a failure! Then man
is a failure. Then the race is a fail-
Attend to Business.
Nothing but ultimate ruin stares
that farmer in the face who doesn't
pay personal attention to all the
most minute details of his farm.
There are a thousand small leaks
j about the management of an ordi-
I nary farm, that if not closely attend-
' ed to will surely bring the most
\ hard working farmer to ruin and
I the populous districts in the eastern j bankruptcy. Nine-tenths of the
I half of the State. Ttie result is that . thinking farmers can attribute their
! the west, with only one-third of the present distress to no other cause
| poople but a majority of counties - t^ian a c^ose attention to the
the house. The of tlie farm; a closer super-
be ehancred be- vision of machinery and tools, the
for
! Dr. Talmage preached there yester- j ure. Then the government of God
day to many people, taking as his j is a failure. The man whose face
i text Act xviii. 22, "then Paul stood
I m the midst of Mars Hill and said,
| ye men of Athens, I perceive that
i in all things ye are too supersti-
| tious."
Later in the day Mr. Talmage had
j an interview with Premier Tncoupis.
Yesterday he had an audience with
Queen Olga and ex-Empress Vic-
| toria of Germany.
actually controls
constitution cannot
cause the western fellows know-
good thing when they have it
hand, and naturally object to any
change that will deprive them of
power by equalizing the representa-
tion.
stock and their food, a place
and everything
rtcELREE'S WINE OF CABOUI loi Weak Serve*
| everything ana everything in
place. No one is as much interested
in attending to these details as the
boss. Such a course will, in a few
months, a year or two at most,
enable many farmers who are now
on the down grade, to again begin
to ascend.—Ex.
The ISIew York Mirror says: "We
| hear that a certain stock-theater
manager of this city, embittered by ;s a failure?
| the accurate description of one of
| his recent failures, which was pub-
lished in the Herald, sent to Mi-
Bennett a peremptory demand that
; his dramatic critic should be dis-
charged immediately- Mr. Bennett
audaciously refused to comply with
this modest request on the extraordi- j C£
nary grounds that the critic told the j eyeg t0 bome tremendous facts, and
truth, and that was just what he em-1 who is smitten with the notion that
is
seamed and ridged all over with the
fruits of vice says virtue is a failure.
The bloated, besotted, driveling ine-
briate says temperance is a failure.
The highwayman and the murderer
say the lawr is a failure. The reck-
less yiolator of the law of health
says the science of medicine is a
failure. Pope Pius IX said the civ-
| llization of the nineteenth century
| is a failure. The owl says light is a
j failure. Is it any wonder that men
j may be heard to say that Christiani-
It's an old cry; ev-
I ery single century since Christ it
! has been sounded out. But some-
! how this thing wve call Christianity
' does not fail. And the charges
against Christianity never seemed
j quite so absurd as in the evening of
this nineteenth century. He only
in make the charge who shuts his
ployed him to do.''
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