The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-30

SHADES and MAnsfeld's specialties can new
ermore have the slightest confidence N COM
municatiOns brought by these good men
from the departed of the other world.
Children in Texas will never see ghosts.
The Giddings Tribune thinks Governor
Coke the equal of Thomas Jefferson as a
writer, and that if he were in the Senate.
there are not three members who would be
his peers. He would give Texas as proud a
position in the upper as our present strong
delegation has given it in the lower house.
The people have endorsed him. By ma
jority of one hundred thousand they have
placed the seal of their appreciation on his
past conduct, and shown their willingness
TO trust him in the future. Therefore let
us send the peoples man to the Senate
Somebody ought to make Hieronymus
eat the circular saw that does service as a
gong at the fashionable hotel at Hampstead
His paper says that the CONSTITUTION was
adopted by nearly so, 900 majority, and it
is useless to hope that the Legislature will
have the moral courage to amend it. All,
WE'LL such is life. 1t is better than the old
at any rate" People everywhere were told
by the press and orators that the new, in
some respects, was better than the old !;
with which it might be amended, and half
the people who voted for the new Constitu-
tjan hoped, by SO doing, to get rid finally
both of this and of the Davis and Candy
code. Tell the story as it is and was, and
let the Legislature discharge its duty wisely
and literally.
A Chinese gentleman, like the Nsics,
thinks it beneath his dignity to manufacture
his own witticisms. He appreciates wit,
and he is fond of tea, but he would as soon
grow his own tea as make his own jokes.
When he goes into society, he carries IN his
pocket a package of prepared Witticisms
and repartees, which he has purchased at
the nearest joke-slsop. When conversation
flags, and he perceives an opportunity for
saying something brilliant, he draws hu-
morous remark from the top of his pack
age, and gravely hands 1t to his neighbor.
| The latter as gravely reads it, and, select
ing from his bundle of repartees the one
which is appropriate, returns it, with bow,
to the original joker. The two then
solemnly smile in courteous and undemon-
strative way, resume their CONVEX sation,
feeling that they have acquitted themselves
with conspicuous brllliancy.
When we said that what was modesty
two years ago is modesty no longer, and
that newspapers everywhere gave all the
foul details of the Beecher trial, and when
we said that the Christian press dared not
ignore the universally of vices among the
young, against which the Woodruff in
weighed, the Sulphur Springs Gazette, hav-
ing its secondhand notions of the Wood
hull philosophy, says: ''If this is not a
positive endorsement of Mrs. Woodhull's
code of ethics, that is, the absolute free
dom to both sexes to adjust their love re-
lations' to suit their individual whims, we
must confess that we fail to understand the
force of language" We only approved
1 what the Woodruff said here, and she never
uttered in this city the sentiment here as
cribed to her. She expressly approved the
institution of marriage as divine, and only
condemned the foul mockeries of marriage,
] effected for money in fashionable life. She
would have women taught to take care OF
themselves, and made self-reliant and in
telligent. The Sulphur Springs paper,
copied by the Shreveport Times, should cor
rect its error.