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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10
CARES FoRNorHING.
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| Who cares for nothing alone is free
Sit down, good fellow, and drink with me.
With careless heart and merry eve,
He laughs at the world az the world goes by.
He laughs at power, and wealth, and fame;
He laughs at virtue, he laughs at shame;
He laughs at hope and he laughs at fear;
AT memory'S dead leaves crisp and sere;
He laughs at the future, cold and dim
Nor earth, nor Heaven is dear to him.
o, that is comrade fit for me!
He cares for nothing, his soul is free.
Free as the soul of the fragrant wine
Sit down, good fellow, my heart is thine.
For l heed not custom, creed nor law;
| care for nothing that ever saw.
In every city my cups quaff,
And over the chalice riot and laugh.
laugh like the cruel and turbulent wave;
laugh at the church and laugh at The grave
laugh at joy, and well know
Ihat merrily, merrily, laugh at woe.
And he cares for nothing, King is he
Come on, old fellow, and drink with me-
With you will drink to the solemn past.
Though the cup drain shall be my last
l will drink to the phantoms of love and truth
To ruined hopes and a wasted youth.
1 will drink to the woman who wrought my
woe,
In the diamond morning of long ago.
l will drink to the thought of better time:
To innocence gone, like death-bell chime.
| will drink to the shadow of coming doom,
To the phantoms that wait in my lonely tomb
will drink to my soul, in its terrible mood,
Dimly and Solemnly understood.
And, last of all, the monarch of sin,
Who conquered that palace and reignS within
My sight is fading-it dies away
cannot tell is it night or day.
Through awful chasms plunge and fall
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GENERAL LAWS.
CHAPTER XLVII.

An act to regulate the condemnation
of property in cities and towns for
the purpose of opening, widening
or changing public Streets avenues
or alleys, or for water mains, or-
sewers.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the
legislature of the state of Texas,
That whenever the city council of
any incorporated city or town shall
deem it necessary to take private
property in order to open, change or
widen any public street, avenue or
alley, or for the construction of water
mains, or sewers within or without
the limits of such city or town, such
property may be taken for such pur-
pose by making just compensation to
the owner thereof. Ii the amount
of such compensation cannot be
agreed upon it shall be the duty of
such city council to cause to be
stated in writing the real estate or
property sought to be taken, the
name of the owner thereof and his
residence if known, and file such
statement with the county Judge of
the county in which said property is
situated.
Sec 2. Upon the filing OF such
statement it shall be the duty Of said
judge in term time or vacation to
appoint three disinterested free
holders and qualified voters of the
county us special commissioners to
assess the damages to accrue 20 tsRc'
owner by reason of such proposed
condemnation.
Sec. 3. The commissioners so APP
pointed shall in their proceedings be
governed and controlled by the laws
in force in reference to the condem-
nation of the right of way for railroad
companies and the assessment of the
damages thereof, the city OF town
occupying the position of the
railroad company and all laws in
reference to applications for the con-
demnation of the right-of-way for
railroad companies including the
measure Of damages. the right of APP
peal and the like shall apply to an ap-
plication by city or town under this
act for the condemnation of property
for the purpose of opening, changing
or widening streets, avenues or alleys,
or for the construction of water
mains or sewers, the city or town to
occupy the position of the railroad
company.
Sec. 4. Article 478 of the revised
statutes be and the same is hereby re-
pealed.
Sec. 5. The crowded condition of
the business on hand and the near APP
proach f the close of the session Gre
ates an imperative public necessity
authorizing the suspension of the
constitutional rule requiring bills to
be read on three several days and said
rule is hereby suspended.
Approved March %, 1888.
Takes effect ninety days after adj
jnurnment. 90
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

THE total property of the United
States in 1880 was $35, 0O0,OO0,OO0. In
the decade ending in 1860 the total
property increased 1876 per cent, and
was in round numbers ST., OO0,OO0,OOO.
At the same rate of increase the GEN.
sus of 1870 would have returned
$3S, 420,0O0,OOO. The largest estimate
ever made of the losses caused by the
civil war was $1O,OOO,0OO,OOO. De-
Quoting this there would remain
$28, 420,OO0,OOO, which was about what
the census made it in currency. At
the same percentage of increase the
census of 1880 would have
returned $64,229,OOO,OOO in round
numbers. This shows d reduc-
ton of productive forces
amounting to over $29,OOO.0OO,OOO. In
contemplating the figures questions
relating to the cause Of the decline in
productive forces naturally come to
the front for solution, and it is plainly
enough found in taxation, not neces
sary, honest taxation, but such bur-
dens as a protective tariff imposes
upon the wealth creating classes,
the working people of the coun-
try. The many have been
taxed into a condition that forever
keeps them face to face with penury,
and the many are beginning to COM
prehend the maXims that when each
branch of industry supports itself, all
add their gains to the wealth, and
that "when one industry supports
another, the contribution is so much
deducted from the aggregate gain. !"
In the one case you have an equitable
distribution of wealth in the other,
you have private opulence and pub
lie poverty. Protective taxation
builds up monopolies and impover-
ishes labor.
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Preserving Pretty Faces.

The desire to improve the appear
ance or preserve her beauty is i'm
planted in every woman's heart.
Nothing can be said against the de-
sire; it is perfectly legitimate. But
very much can be said against the
wished-for end. A moderate use of
simple violet powder for the bath or
used lightly on the face is not injuri-
Gus to The skin. 1t has a pleasant
feeling and takes away the glossy
look from some faces; but chalk and
paste that are too frequently used
give the skin an unnatural and panty
appearance, and when the folly OF
using rouge on the cheeks is added
pretty face is vulgarized. Many
ladies have an indicate manner of
powdering in public, and if you
are careful observer you will
frequently see young woman on
boat or train, or in a waiting room,
take out a handkerchief with powder
on one corner and deliberately chalk
her face, very often before men who
are standing about. One of the most
beautiful blondes / ever saw con-
tracted the habit of powdering to ex-
cess. Her natural complexion was
exquisite and she had no need of arti-
fetal aid, but she thought it added to
her appearance, and SO she powdered
to such an extent that every one no
ticed it and gave her no credit for
what nature had really done for her.
A proper care of health and diet will
add the most of anything to ones ap-
pearance, and the laws of health are
entirely opposed to filling the pores
of the skin with chalk and
paint that are frequently composed
of poisonous ingredients. which
a not only dangerous but vulgar.
Mr.. Labouchere'S advice to ladies is
to wash their face in very hot water
if they wish a beautiful skin and no
wrinkles has been widely read and
adopted by many women. The COM
pIexiOn, because it is one of the first
and foremost attributes of feminine
beauty, is more tempered with, more
subjected to every conceivable style
of treatment than the care of the hair,
teeth, eyebrows, laShes, nails and hands
would amount to altogether, if
summed up in one. Such various
treatments of the skin often result in
doing it more harm than good. Wash
ing in hot water is undoubtedly bene-
fetal for the skin in certain cases,
but with all due respect to Mr.. La
bouchere, it is not to be recommended
universally. 1t is self-evident that
each type requires a treatment partic-
ularly adapted to its own needs. and
women must exercise their own judg
ment in such matters and study what
sort of skin they really have.
It is not well to use much soap, not
withstanding some women preach an
other gospel in reference to this; but
if you have very fresh, tough skin
you may be able to stand frequent
gatherings for few years and inn
agine you owe your freshness of col
oring to that, but you viii soon see the
folly.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

THE assets of Cornell university,
New York, are about 100000, and
the present annual income is about
$275,00O. 1t has been recommended
that the salaries of the full professors
should be raised to at least $500, the
amount received by the professors at
Harvard and Yale. This increase is
urged to prevent the drawing away
of the professors to other institutions
where their abilities are recog-
nized and greater compensation
offered. 1t may be seen from this
how the university must har-
binger it's means if it would
compete with the other great institu-
tions of America. Hence, it cannot
afford to part with the title to its
lands. They must be preserved for
their wealth in future years, and the
money deriyable from leases must be
used for the annual expenses of the
institution. Harvard has fund of
between twelve and fourteen millions,
and this is being largely added to
every year through private contribu-
tionS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

Nineteenth Century!
Women, especially those of the up
per classes, who are not obliged to
keep themselves in condition to work,
lose after middle age sometimes
earlier) a considerable amount of
their height, not by STOPPING, as men
do, but by actual collapse, sinking
down, mainly to be attributed to the
perishing of the muscles that support
the frame, in consequence of habitual
and constant pressure of stays, and
dependence upon the artificial sup
port by them afforded. Every girl
who wears stays that press upon these
muscles, and restrict the free develop
ment of the fibres that folm
them, relieving them from so do
ing, may feel sure she is preparing
herself to be dumpy woman. A
great pityl Failure of health among
women when the vigor of youth
passes away is but too patent, and
but too commonly caused by this
practice. Let the man who admires
the piece of pipe that does duty for
human body picture to himself the
wasted form and scanned skin. Most
women, fl ON long custom of wearing
these stays, are really unaware how
much they are hampered and restrict
ed. A girl of twenty, intended by ma
ture to be one of her finest specimens,
gravely assures one that her stays are
not tight, being exactly the same size
as those she was first put into, not
perceiving her condemnation in the
fact that she has grown five inches in
height and two in Shoulder-b breath.
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the constant pressure has prevented
lung space. The dainty waists of the
poets is precisely that flexible slim
ness that is destroyed by stays. The
form resulting from them is not
slim, but piece of pipe, and as in
flexible. But while endeavoring to
make clear the outrage upon prac-
tical good sense and sense of
beauty, it is necessary to understand
and admit the whole state of the case.
A reason, if not necessity. for some
sort OF corset may be found when the
forms is very redundant; this, how
ever, cannot be with the very young
and slight, but all that necessity could
demand, and that practical good sense
and fitness would concede, could be
found IN strong elastic kind OF Jer-
sey, sufficiently strong, and even stiff
under the bust to support it, and suffi-
GENTLY classic at the sides and back
to injure no organs and impede
no functions. Even in the case
of the young and slight an
elastic band under the false
ribs would not be injurious, but sper-
haps the contrary, serving as a con-
slant hint to keep the chest well for
ward and the shoulders back; but
every stiff, unyielding machine, crush
ing the ribs and destroying the fibre
of the muscle, will be fatal to health,
to freedom of movement, and to beau
ty; it is scarcely too much to say that
the wearing of such amounts to stu
pidity in those who do not know the
consequences (for over and over again
warning has been given) and to wick
edness in those who do.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10
HOME, FARM AND RANCH.

| EFFECTS OF EXTERNAL TEMPERA-
TURE UPON THE BODY HEAT DIR
NaSaroff has been experimenting up.
on rabbits to determine the effects OF
| sudden elevation and lowering of
| temperature. The animals were first
placed in a room the temperature of
| which varied from 100 to 100 degrees
Partly grown or fasting rabbits re-
sponded more quickly to the influence
of the hot air than did full grown ami
mails or those that had Just eaten.
The body temperature. rose at first
slowly, but when ITO degrees was
reached the increase was more rapid
about 80 degrees in ten minutes. If
the animal were removed quickly
from the chamber when tempera-
ture of Ill degrees was reached, it re-
covered promptly. The only results
of such an elevation were momen-
tary sinking of the temperature
below the normal and a
temporary albuminuria. In cases
of death the striated mus
cular tissue as well as the liver and
kindeyS were seen to be darker than
normal. There was also stasis in
the capillarieS. In experiments upon
the abstraction of heat, young and
fasting animals responded more
quickly. They were placed in water
of 32.5 degrees to $50 degrees, and re-
covered after lowering of the body
heat to 81 degrees, but temperature
of 90 degrees was fatal. After num-
erouS repetitions the animals acquired
an increased heat-forming power and
were less readily affected by the sur
rounding temperature. Nasaroff
states that the effects upon the inter
nal organs of sudden change of tenn
perature are too insignificant to ac-
count for disease from catching
cold"
DR.. Richet and Rondeau have also
been conducting somewhat similar
Investigations to determine the mode
of death by freezing. The first change
was noticed in the respiration, which
became at first shallow and then II
regular. Life could be preserved
longer if artificial respiration were
practiSed. Next the heart was affect
ed, the pulsations becoming markedly
slowed. When the temperature fell
below 62 degrees the nervous system
became affected. The loss of the
power of voluntary movements pre-
ceded that of reflex movements.
The corneal reflex was lost be-
fore the muscular refleXes of
the lower extremities. Sensibility
of pain and electrical irritability
were also lost although the animal
was apparently dead, it could often
be resuscitated 10y warmth and arti-
fetal respiration. The pulse returns
first, then reflex movements; respira-
ton is next established, and last of
all to return is the power of voluntary
movements. The practical value of
these experiments lies in the demon
,stration of the possibility of recovery
in apparent death from cold by means
of warmth and artificial respiration.
-Centralblatt fun Kiln. Medicin, JAN
uary q, 1883.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

Mr. PARNELL must certainly ex-
perience great satisfaction at the con-
sentative course pursued by the Irish
men in convention at Philadelphia.
To him, as the leader of the Irish
people in their pending struggle for
political freedom, the action of that
convention was matter of the great
est magnitude. He was so placed as
to fully realize the good or evil it
might do. Had the convention COM
mitted itself to the policy of the ex-
tremists it would have politically sew
cred the Irish of America from their
friends in Ireland and England.
Nothing could have more embarrassed
Mr.. Parnell, and have SO effectually
paralyzed his efforts, as for that con-
vention to have formally approved
what is called the dynamite policy
1t would have been said that in de-
claring for that policy the Irish here
spoke not only for themselves: but
also for the Immediate followers O.
Parnell.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10
CHAPTER XIV.

An act to amend article 4724, chapter
3, title 90 of the revised statutes. 4
fix and equalize the compensation
of assessors of taxes.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the
legislature of the state of Texas,
That article 4724, chapter 3, title 90
shall hereafter read as follows:
Article 4724. Each assessor OF taxes
shall receive the following c0mpensar
ton for his services which shall be
estimated upon the total values o
the property assessed, as follows: FOli
assessing the state and county tax, on
all sums of two millions of dollars or
less, five cents for each one hundred
dollars of property assessed, and
all sums over two millions andTleSs
than five millions OF dollars two
and one-half cents on each one hun
dred dollars. and all sums over five
millions Of dollars, two cents on each
one hundred dollars. Two-thirds of
the above fees shall. be paid by the
state, and one-third- By the county,
and for assessing the poll taa, five
cents for each poll which shall be paid
by the state.
Sec. 2. The near approach of the
close Of the session creates an emer-
gency requiring the suspension of the
constitutional rule requiring bills to
be read on three several days, and
said rule is hereby suspended.
Approved March %, 1888.
Takes effect ninety days after adj
journment.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

NJ. DELEssEPs has four great canal
schemes on hand. There seems no
doubt now that he will connect the
two oceans at Panama, and the next
most gigantic thing he proposes to do
is to make great inland sea in cen
trail Africa, whereby the aridness of
that region will be destroyed. The
project is described as a canal
twelve meters deep and fifty
meters wide from the mouth of
the Oued-Melah which empties into
the gulf of Gabes down into four
large depressions which are below the
sea level. This canal will be over
one hundred miles long, but as the
soil is chiefly sand it is estimated that
the work can be done in the "maxi-
mum period" of five years at cost of
about one hundred and fifty million
francs. Among the advantages that
are presented as an encouragement
to embark in the enterprise
are the restoration to fertility of
a now immense barren tract of coun-
try which formerly was an important
granary of ancient Rome, and the
formation for France of barrier on
the frontiers of Algeria and Tunis
against the invasions of Tripoltan
Bedouins and other fierce tribes, thus
permitting the exercise of as strong
an authority on the south border OF
Algeria as is now possessed over the
Mediterranean coasts. A few years
ago it was customary to consider all
such projects visionary; but with the
successful completion of the
Suez canal and the subsequent
demonstration of its ability to pay
excellent dividends on the capital in
vested, it is not safe now to dismiss
any new project of the great French
engineer calling for an immense
work and outlay of money as the
emanations of an enthusiast. And If
he shall make the deserts Of Africa
once more into fertile fields he will
have accomplished work that will
rank as high as even the project now
well under of cutting the isthmus
and joining the waters of the oceans,
which will pass the worlds COM
merce.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

AN Iowa paper says it will be
many years before the people under
stand fully the corruption of one
who, as it says, lately disgraced the
high position of speaker of the house;
that he was made speaker by jobbing
Republicans in the interest of iniqui-
tous schemes of plumber. A late
noted case has just been made public.
On the sixth of January, Congress
man KlotZ, of Pennsylvania, made
serious charges against the Washing
ton gas company and Bailey. chief
clerk of the house of representatives,
one of the chief stockholders and
managers of the monopoly which by
peculiar methods has been able to
defeat since 1864 forty bills to char
ter new companies or reduce the
price of gas. A resolution was passed
ordering committee to investigate
the charges, and Keifer, in violation of
accepted practice, refused to appoint
on this committee either the men,
Der who made the charge, the one who
Offered the resolution, or those who
spoke in favor of it. The character
of the committee may well be guessed,
and the result was just what was ex-
pected. Mr.. Klotz now publishes a
speech which he would have delivered
in the house bad he not been gagged
by Keifer. Concerning this Mr.. KlotZ
says:
1.-The report OF the select committee
was finished on the 10Th of February,
but was withheld by the chairman
(Mr' Crowley until Sunday morning,
March 4, when it was presented to
the house, together with he minority
report at half-paSt three in the morn
ing:
"From the time of the presenta-
ttion of the report up to within
fifteen minutes of the close of the
forty-seventh congress l endeav-
ored with persistence to be heard on
this subject, as | certainly had a right
to be heard. To my surprise, some
members of the committee, who
knew all the facts Of the case, OBJ
jected.
81 next endeavored to obtain per-
mission to print the subjoined re-
marks in the Congressional Record
and went personally three several
times to the speaker for that privil-
| eye. Two gentlemen, distinguished
members of the house, also besought
the privilege for me. but that func-
tionary refused to give his consent.
"Three times ! asked permission of
the house to print my statement, and
in each instance Messrs. HaZleton,
Pettibone and Bisbee objected.
Immediately after the adjourn.
ment of congress, the eX-speaker, Mr..
Keifer, sought out one of the clerks
and notified him to remember that
Mr.. Klotz had no right to print in the
Record any speech in reference to the
gas company"
Keifer's official acts cannot be over
hauled nor can Mr.. Klotz's charges
be Investigated by the next congress
But the gas monopoly can be investi-
gated and the relations of Keifer and
the other Republican statesman to
that corrupt institution can be ex-
posed. The country would like to
know the true inwardness of the cor
poration which had the influence to
have the embarrassing report of the
committee withheld until the closing
minutes of the last congress, so as to
prevent any discussion, ard such
power over Keifer as to have him gag
the opposition.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10
THE growth of telegraph business

THE growth of telegraph business
in England since the state has ac-
quired control of the lines is said to
have been enormous. The number of
messages per week have grown from
10000 to 603,00O. In 1873 the aver
age number of messages per mile of
wire was lat; now it is 256. In press
messages 5000 words per diem have
grown already to 1874, 154 per day. The
telegraphs in use on railways have
grown from $4,000 miles of wire in
1859 to $4,000 in 1882, and the instru-
ments from 1923 to 1902. In Japan
last year 2,22S.2l4 messages were dis
patched, of which SO per cent were in
the native tongue.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

A CONVENTION of colored people
has been called to meet in Washing.
ton city on the oath of September
next for the consideration of the
present and future condition of said
people in this country. Under the
call Texas will be entitled to elect g
delegates, Louisiana 20, Mississippi
rs, Alabama "a. Florida 3 and Ar
kansas 9.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

GOLD certificates are fast coming
into popular use, and will in a short
time take the position for which they
were originally destined; namely, the
settlement of clearing house bal
ances. The Boston, New York and
Philadelphia clearing house asssoci-
ations have already discontinued the
use of certificates of their own and
employed the governments gold GER
tificates instead.