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The Navasota Tablet of last

The Navasota Tablet of last
week contains a lengthy article,
including liberal quotations
from the BANNER, concerning
the Santa Fe extension. The
survey from Quarry station to
Navasota has been completed
and is pronounced by chief en-
gineer Temple to be both FEAST
Bile and economical in an ingin-
eering point of view. Mr.. Tenn
pie informs the Tablet that in
all probability two or three
more lines would be surveyed;
he was indisposed to express
opinions as to the definite
course. The Tablet appears to
be inclined to jealousy to-
wards Brennan, and from
the tenor of its comments
it is evident that Brennan
is not the favorite place
for the extension to reach the
line. Brennan like every other
business city in the state wants
all the business she can get and
will use all honorable means to
get it, at the same time there is
no disposition on the part of our
business men to injure Navaso-
ia. As there seems to be plen-
tY of room for Houston and
Galveston, so is there for Bren-
ham and Navasota.
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Varieties.

Fair-haired girls calls the
electric the blonde light. This
is where they get the best of
brunettes.
Although this is 1882, it
ought by this time be familiar
to every one. Two years ago
was 1880 too,
About the last thing a man
thinks of giving to his girl is a
switch, and yet that is often
what she needs the most.
The reason why New Year
resolves are so soon forgotten
is because many who turn the
new eafforget to gum it down.
Mary Anderson, the actress,
sn't turned new leaf. She
will continue, as usual, this year
to celebrate her eighteenth
birth day.
A fashion writer says form
is more important in dress than
color. Organizers of female
burlesque troups have long ago
recognized this fact.
1t is said that the Mexican
ladiea, even among the wealth.
est families, make their own
dresses, almost as universal
thing.
An amateur journalist at Elk
hart, Ind, announces that the
purpose of his paper is "to re-
store to the public its wonted
grandeur and prosperity" Incl
dentallly, he will receive sub
scriptions at fifty cents a year.
Lloyds states that the wreck
age from the British steamer,
City of London, which sailed
from London, November 18th,
for New York, and has never
reached her destination, is con-
tinually washing upon the Irish
coast. A signal locker has been
found, bearing the name of the
vessel.
In the British House of Com
mons, the other day, General
Trevelyn, replying to Mr.. Max
well, said that American salt
beef had been used in the Brit
ish navy since 1870, and had
not been complained of. There
was a saving in its use over the
English beef equal to II per
cent, of the cost.
Miss Bette English, of Gin
cinnati, has brought a suit
against Mr.. Clement T. Eng
fish for defamation of character,
claiming $4,000 damages.
Miss English sets up that Mr..
English is her father, that she
was brought up in ignorance of
the fact by persons other than
her parents, Mr., English denies
that the plaintiff is his daughter
and asserts that her claim for
is for Matchmaking |
purposes.
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The Austin Statesman says
there will be a home market for
castor beans at Austin and that
all that can be raised in the
vicinity or within range ofrail-
road transportation there. Cas-
tor beans are very hardy, they
grow almost anywhere and it
apparently makes but little diff
ference whether the season be a
wet or dry one. They are plan
ted and cultivated exactly like
cotton and are worm proof. The
raising of castor beans is a
profitable crop in Arkansas and
Missouri and there is no appar-
ent reason why they should not
be raised pro6tably in this state
and made into oil by the oil
mills.
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Platform First Candidates Second.

Report comes from Houston
of a movement about to be in
augurated against the Roberts
regime, but there is mystery
Surrounding it. The movement
is not without merit, the object
being most praiseworthy; but
the means are doubtful. The
Galveston Journal, a paper that
has been fighting Roberts for
some time, suggests that the
young men, the pure, upright,
non-ofice seeking democrats,
will undertake the task of lift
ing the party out OF the mire
of Robertson and put in the
lead man of acknowledged
ability and character, and a
broad, liberal and progressive
platform on which all can stand,
there will be no reason why
they should fail. All good and
true men of the state, without
regard to sentiments on such
national questions as the tariff
and the finances, the only real
issues now before the people,
might support the movement.
The chronic office-seekers may
oppose the movement.
The BANNER has, all along,
contended that there is no ques-
ton of national politics at issue
in the coming election for state
officers. 1t is an off year in
national politics, and the mat
ter that now concerns the peo-
pie is, the election of a state
administration that will be fully
abreast Of the times. We need
a more comprehensive and eff
Gent system OF public education,
reformation in the judiciary sys-
tenn by which more speedy
justice may be administered to
criminals, and an abolition of
the cash balance; it is useless
to collect taxes simply that
the money withdrawn from the
business of the state may lie
idly in the treasury. Penitentia-
ry convicts should be kept with
in the walls of the penitentiary
and more ample provision
made for the lunatics. State
taxes should be reduced and
provision made for counties to
levy such tax for county pur-
posesas their several necessi-
ties may demand. In order to
effect some of these changes
constitutional amendments will
be necessary. All these mat
tiers are in the hands of the peo-
pie and they should speak out
in their primary meetings, The
selection of candidates for the
various state Offices could very
well be left to the wisdom of
the state convention; all sec
tives of the state will be fully
represented and the representa-
tons fresh from the people can
harmonic, and as there is
plenty of good material from
which to select a democratic
ticket it would perhaps be well
to trust the convention, which
having first made a broad and
liberal platform can then NOM
mate candidates fully pledged
to abide by and carry it out.
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A Gradual Change.

The Beaumont Enterprise has
a leading editorial under the
caption Independentism in
which it takes the ground that
an independent is the cheapest
political monster or nondescript
in existence, and it says that
while it is not independent of
party, but democratic and does
not propose to vote against
democratic principles, it does
not intend to let two or three or
half a dozen men tell it what
democracy is, or to wear any
individuals collar. This is all
very well, but the Enterprise
goes still further and says that
the convention system, if fairly
carried out, is the very best
system for trying the strength
of political parties who are OPP
posed, one to the other. But if
a handful of men meet in
rural courthouse and "resolute"
that such and such shall be,
without consulting the voters
about it, we do not feel that we
are bound by our democratic
principles to vote for the nomi-
nee of that convention. We do
not propose to bind ourselves
to support the nominee of a
packed convention.
In the above outspoken de-
claration of principles the En-
terprise is not alone; many
other democratic papers in
Texas have expressed similar
views, but it seems to be a lit
tie mixed in its views of the IN
dependent, if it refers to the in
dependent voter, because pack
ed conventions are in a great
measure responsible for indie
pendent voters. There is hard
ly a man of mature years who
has not some settled political
convictions, and in presidential
elections he is always found
voting with the political party
he has faith in, and in the choice
of state officers and members OF
congress, the same ruling holds
good, but should the masses of
either the democratic or the
republican party come to the
deliberate conclusion that the
state conventions have been
packed, they will bolt the nomi-
nees with as little conjunction
as they ego back" on county
nominations. 1t has not been
so in the past, because the poll
ticians have had. control. IN
der the outspoken declarations
of the press the people, or rath-
er the masses, are thinking and
talking among themselves, and
hereafter nominating conven-
tons will necessarily have to be
more circumspect. If the COM
ing democratic state convention
would retain the public conf
dence it will first make a liberal
platform and afterwards nomi-
nate its candidates who will be
pledged to live up to the plat
form. County conventions have
been manipulated to such an ex-
tent that they are of little value,
and many vote Unfortunately
for men of both parties; some
on the ground of personal pref
erence and others because they
believe they are voting for the
best and most competent men
for office.
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No danger of republican rep
resentatives in congress from
western Texas. The San An
tonic Times says: "The peo-
pie of western Texas want hon.
enst representation, and would
never expect to receive it from
a republican source. So far as
protective tariff is concerned,
there is not even a respectable
minority of the voters who de-
sire to perpetuate the robbery
of the many for the benefit of
the few. Besides a protective
tariff is opposed to the best in
terest it of the state"
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The Galveston Journal ad-
vises the @Sifkins, published
at Austin, to writeits jokes with
scissors and paste. We like the
Journal, and like the Siftings !;
we dislike to give any advice to
cur contemporaries, taking it
for granted that they under
stand their own business; bnt
we think we run no risk in say
ing that, as a general thing, one
paper does not like to be ad-
vised by another. If Siftings
is not run to suit the Galveston
Journal, and the Journal can
succeed in correcting the mis-
take, tits matter that concerns
them alone. If there is any
quarreling 70 be done the BAN
HER prefers to be a.s.silent spec
tator.
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Wasting Time.

There is but one legislative
body in Great Britain-Parlia-
which has to attend to
all the legislation for nearly
three hundred million people
six times the population of the
United States and covering i
territory upon which the sun
never sets, yet ParlIment gets
through with its business in far
less time than congress.
The New Orleans Times
Democrat, referring to the sub
ject, says a good average for
congress and the state legisla-
lures is 100000 bills introduced
a year and 5000 passed. If
the British Parliament attempt
ed anything like this, the lords
and members of Parliament
would never have an hour for
sleep or rest; and although
Parliament legislates for six
times as many people as con-
gress does, and without any as
sistance from state legislatures,
the British Parliament does not
see one-twentieth as many bills
introduced a year as congress,
does not pass half as many acts
and is a much shorter time in
session.
A review of the proceedings
of congress last week shows
how its time is wasted. Take
Friday for instance. 1t was a
busy day in the house and three
bills were passed, as follows
For the retirement of somebody
from the rank of Major and
somebody else from the rank of
Captain, and granting arrears
of pension to somebody else's
widow. The senate consumed
its time celebrating over the
restoration of Mark Walter to
his rank in the army, he having
been discharged for drunken
ness. All of this, says the
Times-Democrat, is. legitimate
business and within the juris-
diction of congress, but it asks,
could we not make some ar
rangement by which the time of
the national legislature would
not be consumed in those tri-
fies, while really great interests
are neglected.
The Legislature referred to is
undoubtedly OF special char
acter, inasmuch as it concerns
only the individuals for whose
benefit the acts were passed
the general public have no
more interest in it than they
have in the advertisement oil a
runaway negro twenty-five years
ago. 1t is safe to say that
about three-quarters of the time
of congress is taken up by legis-
lation of a similar character to
that cited above. In the state
legislature similar state of af-
fairs exist ; it is considered to
be the first duty of a member
of a state legislature or of con-
gress to introduce one or more
bills; it matters but little what
the subject matter of the bill
may be, so that it is introduced
its purpose is subserved. The
legislature and congress should
devise some means by which
the introduction of frivolous
and useless bills could be en-
tirely done away with and no
legislation attempted except of
a nature calculated to subserve
the public interest alone.
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The Galveston Civilians very
skeptical; it absolutely refuses
to believe that there is any viz
tue in cotton seed oil, and says
as soon as the prejudice is re-
moved and we all get to eating
oil, in Laplander style, won't
we be a greasy and oily tom
gued race OF bipeds here in the
south" The Civilian may
"kick" against cotton seed oil,
but It will supercede lard in the
kitchen for all that.
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A DALLAS special to the Lit
tie Rock Gazette says that E.
G. Bower, late chairman of the
State Democratic executive
committee has returned from a
pilgrimage through the state.
MI. Bower says that he is salts
fed from the non-committal
manner ia which Gov. Roberts
speaks, and the tone of his con-
hdential friepds, that Governor
Roberts will be a candidate for
athird term, and also go be-
ore the legislature for United
States senator to succeed Coke.
Its also stated in the special
that Bower is a friend, admirer
and supporter of Roberts.
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MAcLElN. the man who fired

MAcLEAN, the man who fired
at Queen Victoria, says he did
not wish to harm her majesty
and that he fired at her carriage
wheels. He is a Chartist and
desired to draw attention to the
gulf that exists between the
aristooraoy Of England and the
masses Of the people. He is
pronounced to be a crank.
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The Tyler Courier does not
lay claim to being a strict Bour-
bon, as defined by the inde-
pendent press, but it is demo-
cratic TO the core. 1t believes
that the majority should rule,
but objects to a bolt from the
expressed will of a minority of
the voters of the democratic
party. The politicians have
been in the habit of expressing
the viii OF the people and that
IS what the papers, classed by
the Courier as the independent
press, are trying to circumvent.
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The Denison Democrat is
making a lively war on the pro-
hibitionists. Here is a speci-
men Of the squibs it is fixing at
them. "The man who votes
for prohibition proclaims him
self incapable to control his ami
NAL passions. He may be a
harmless fellow, but he is not a
man. It may be doubted
whether all able-bodied prohi-
bitionist win scare at such a
bugaboo.
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The ultra OF stalwart demo-
Gratis are the irstto rase the cry
that the conservative element
are IN search of all the offices
Of honor and trust; ney want
all the Offices themselves and
also want to dictate who the of
Ace holders shall be. Are par
ties invented for Office holders
or are the people themselves to
say who shall be their public
servants.
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A PROSPECTUS IS out for the
Rio Grande and Pecos railway.
The incorporates are Gov. A.
c. Hunt. ]. w. Throckmorton
and A. w. Wilcox. The road
is to commence at Brownsville
and run up the Rio Grande val
leyto Eagle Pass and to the
mouth of Pecos, thence up the
valley OF that river and to the
Panhandle country.
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TIE Flatonia Argus says that
the farmers in its section of
Fayette county, know the indi-
viduals who are stealing their
stock, and if they don't take
matters into their own hands
and stop it, they deserve to
lose every animal they possess.
There is only one effectual
remedy for theiving. The Ar
gus neglects to state the rene
dy, but there is a very strong
conviction that a stock thief
once hanged never steals again.
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A GREAT deal has been said
in the papers about the arrest
and Imprisonment ola young
woman in New York for the
ofiense Of wearing male attire
in public. The Dallas Herald
takes up the cudgel in defense
of woman's rights to the extent
Of saying that the young women
certainly has right to wear
male attire if she sees proper.
In the case mentioned the girl
was simply innocently circum-
venting an unjust discrimina-
ton of the age against her sex.
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THE North American Indian
or Noble Red Man is a very ex-
pensive luxury. The present
congress has appropriated So
100000 for maintaining In
dams and it win require about
halfas much more to pay the
soldiers that are required to
make the Indians behave them
selves, aud they don't more
than half behave at that.
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The San Antonio Express
has a good word in favor OF cal
isthenics in the public schools /;
a healthy body is as important
as a healthy mind.
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Scientific Miscellany.

A year or more ago a gate
post which had been painted
with so called zinc-white, was
noticed to appear black all day,
gray in the twilight and white
during the night, changing to
black again very soon after
sunrise. MIR. T. L. Phipson was
led to investigate this singular
chameleon property of the
paint, and after much research
has shown the cause to exist in
a new material, which has been
named actinum on account Of
its peculiar actinic effects. 1t
is found in zinc ores, and re-
sembles zinc.
In an experiment by M. Paul
Bert upon a live crocodile, the
animal being made to fcrcibly
close its mouth eXerted a pull
ing force of 3oS pounds upon a
rope attached to the end of its
upper jaw. The extremity of
the jaw being the end of a long
lever, the real power exerted
by the muscles was much great
er, and was computed to be
I,54o pounds. This expert
ment was made upon croco-
die already weakened by cold
and fatigue.
A schoolmaster of Nice has
formed among his pupils a So
ciety for the projection of vege-
tation. The members are to
destroy injurious larval and pro-
tect harmless birds. Their in
terest in the work is kept up by
the election of laureates and the
.aYSzarsGsges. In four months
aildren destroyed
moth moth-e s{
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| III OasN ~.
the witnesses
case are getting re-
BRENNAN in the servi,
country regardless of
expense.
"A Houston candidate for
city marshal is described as a
fair square man and the Age
says he will go fairlyand square
ly before the democrotic con-
vention.
Navarro county has sold
one half of her school lands, re-
alizing therefrom s3c, 900 in
cash. 1t is thought that nearly
500, 900 will be realized from
this source.
= Huntsville has a Kanga-
roo court and the Item says
that any deficiency in the way
of attendance at its sessions is
fully atoned for by the surplus
of fines imposed.
= A farmer in Clay county
has 5000 acre wheat farm,
and expects to break 1000
acres more this year, and 5000
next year, which will make
wheat patch OF 1900 acres.
= At GatesvilIe Robert Lev
erett and his two sons, charged
with lynching Deerlng, had a
preliminary examination and
were put under a nominal bond
to appear before the district
court.
AT San Antonio Jack Har-
ris, variety theater man, was
fined S. for assaulting a news
paper reporter who had criti-
cised the show. The Times
thinks the fine was most ridicu-
lousy low.
A cotton seed oil mill, 500
feet long, is to be built at Pales-
tine at once. A site for it has
been purchased. Cotton seed
oil mills in the interior are null
tiplying and the inference is,
that they are a paying invest
ment.
Simon Said, a nineteen
year old negro boy, is in jail at
Dallas. suspected of implica-
ton in one of the most scienti-
fc and successful burglaries
ever perpetrated in Dallas. 1t
is supposed that Simon had
some assistance.
: Saturday night the house
of J. V. Childers in Dallars was
visited by burglars and the en-
tire family chloroformed. The
burglars then ransacked the
beaurreaus, Wardrobes. ETC., and
got away with about 500
worth of watches and jeI
They had something
about at Palestine od
Mr.. d. Mcleod, age
Miss Lewis, aged
from Willis, and w
The groom has
married three time
for San Antonio
tour.
Sheriff Lew
county arrived z
Saturday night 1s,.
;. : 3: !: ]. !. !.
full Indian ta Rns
with him or
whom he SUD
ing and who is
for stealing {
county seven
AT Triui |
Saturday eyl ID
men well he |
office Of the he |
Trinity and Ind
tied Murphy! And
FIVE men Wit In
ordered Nj e
safe; at t 70
could be- away
and gave The rob-
bers irea e fleeing
darkey horses
and G -
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The Dallas Times says the
people of Texas don't want
their territory squandered or
misappropriated, and that em-
bryo statesmen had better not
forget it.
THE Fort Worth. Democrat
Advance says the governor
does not have any particular
use for the newspapers. Honors
are easy. A good many of the
papers have no use for the Gov
ernor.
The cattle driven from West
ern Texas this spring will
amount to about $4,000 head,
and the cattle are in better con-
dition and better grade than
previous years. Grass has been
good all the winter.
The surveying corps of the
G, c. and S. F. railway have
commenced another survey
from Navasota to the main line,
this survey will, it is thought at
Navasota, cross the Brazos
above the mouth OF the Xsgua.!
II is reported that :
water from the ~
river extends up w
Clarendon, Arlss
I35 miles; the g
under water to g
water is two feed
The San Ante.
says it is its pal
read the Dallas III
the Democratic party
tor, Capt. w. G. Steri.s
cipated in a black
meeting to nominate
ticket for city officers
Work on the eXcavs
the foundation of the nd
toll, proceeds with co
liberation, says theE
cal to the Calves
We take it that 1
way of saying that W
ing on exceedingly slS ..,.,,.,,s..,i-,
IT is said that Mad
wants a newspaper. z
sofa Tablet remarks t
al attemps have been
establish a paper at
vile, but that town, II
others, has no use foI
after it has been starte
THE first number of,
as Railway Review haS
its appearance. 1t is de- +
to the interest of railways
Southwestern enterprises an
published monthly by w. IN
Coyle, Houston, w. T. Harden
brook editor and manager. :
The Castroville Quill is
ahead of all its contemporaries
in publishing Skobeloff7s speech {
on the proposed alliance of ]
Russia and France against {
Germany. The speech is very {
interesting and looks as though
the devil had set up several
handfuls of pied Italics.
BLANToN DUNCAN is either a $
very prominent or very I'M |
fortunate man. He has a point, +,
and it seems impossible for him
to write and point anything that
is not adversely criticised. .
However, this has the advan- :
tage of keeping the irrepressi- !
BILE Blauton before the public. !
The Galveston Journal names
several Texas papers which :
have much of the spice of :
humor; but, says the Journal, :
ga distinctly humorous paper, {
one that would be creditable to =
the state, Texas can not boast"
Is this intended as covert at
tack on certain paper pub /
lished at Austin.