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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
PERSONAL.

jefferson Davis says John Quincy
Adams was one of the most genial
gentlemen he ever knew.
Gen. Diaz, when informed of the
arrangements tor his entertainment
heavens, if can only live through
it,"
Mr.. Tabor, the one-month senator,
said to reporter the other day: 81
never saw the like of some of these
newspaper men-telling how much a
man pays for his night-shirts and all
that sort of thing"
Reasonably well-to-do clergymen
were the late Rev. Sir Frederick Vim
cent, cannon of Chichester, and the
late Rev. Richard L. Lancaster, of
Cheltenham. Their wills, just proved,
dispose Of personalities amounting to
about 81, 10000 and $685,OOO respec-
lively.
President Arthur's portrait is now
nearly completed. 1t is a full-length
representation, and perfect in the
small details of costume, even the lit
tie red rosebud which daily adorns
the buttOnhole Of the presidents coat
being perpetuated. 1t will be placed
in the blue room of the executive
mansion.
Miss Susette Eakin, who died in
Rome in March of Roman fever, after
long illness. was the granddaughter
of Felix Grundy, the celebrated
statesman of Tennessee, the grand
daughter of the late Henry Ewing, of
Philadelphia. and the daughter of the
late Thomas Ealzin, of New York
She was lovely in person, and so
sweet, so unselfsh and so winning in
her character that she was beloved by
all who knew her.
The late widow OF Heine lived in
Paris during the Franco-Prussian
war. and was in terror lest the Ger
mans, on entering the city, should
pillage her house. Therefore she
wrote to her husbands brother, beg
ging advice as to what she should do
to prevent this. He sent her a plac-
ard bearing, in German, these words:
"Here dwells the widow of Germany's
great poet, Heine," and babe her post
it on her door as the most efficient
protection possible for herself and
hers.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

faith. Others have faith by trust,
while hope and love enter into the
composition of the faith of many.
THE most exalted form of imagin-
alton is that which works upward to-
ward God. There is great difference
between refined and unrefined people.
The refined man uses the same kind
of CLAW, only of finer quality, and
the picture of his Imagination is con-
structed out of finer pigment.
There are men who are continually
revolving around the vortex of their
own mouths. Il believe in facts,
says the OK, while eating grass, but
there are many men greener than the
grass eaten by the OK.
"Y gu hear men say, My child, you
should not read that book, for it is
nothing but novel May those men
have to read Newton's Calculus in
the next world. Children are not to
blame for their imaginative minds, -
said Mr.. Beecher. Il have great re-
spect for the Atlantic ocean, unless
I'm on it. l would have rejoiced to
go through the Garden of Eden, but
my imagination paints me picture
much finer than Eden.
Commerce would go to smash if
men were to stop work and go blow
ing soap-bubbles because they looked
beautiful.
When lived in Litchfield l used
to hoe potatoes" said Mr.. Beecher,
when it was hard work to import
enough earth from the corners of the
lot to cover them properly. AS l
sweat in the monday sun l looked
forward to the coming 4th of July
when could go a-fishing. l waded,
in imagination, in the brook and
bathed in its water. 1t was not a
very deep imagination, quite as
shallow as the brook, but deep enough
for boy who hoed potatoes.
ga man imprisoned will make friends
with a little mouse and a little shoot Of
grain which may spring up in crew
ice of the stone floors of his cell will
appear to him like an Amazon forest.
The dew on the hills of heaven is not
to be compared to the drops of water
on the outside of the pitcher standing
in the chamber of the fever patient.
May the doctors who in days gone by
tantalized their patients with the
bare sight of the pitcher have all the
water they want, when they are be-
ing punished for their cruel denial of
water, hereafter. Happy is the man
who can with the Apostles say, L
live not by sight, but by faith"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
Mr.. Beeeher Gives His Hearers His
Conception of Faith.

Mr.. Beecher presented his views of
faith, taking the familiar passages
from II. Corinthians as his text:
"For we walk by faith, not by sight.
While we look not at the things
which are seen, but at the things
which are not seen; for the things
which are seen are temporal, but the
things which are not seen are eter-
nal"
"Our religious life" remarked Mr..
Beecher, "does not depend to any great
extent upon the accuracy of our
knowledge, for there are many de-
vout and happy Christians in the
humber walks of life. But Chris
tian experience will be BROADER
edge. All theology is a system of
mental philosophy. What is faith !?
1t is that formation of Christian i'm
agination which the apostles walked
by. 1t covers a complex state of
mind. Imagination is the brains
great fashioner. 1t pencils pictures
and builds houses, taking the materi-
ais from the mind it puts them to-
gether for the construction of facts.
When the hand works in unison with
the Imagination, the man is an artist;
when the imagination works upon
sounds and can reproduce the score, a
musical artist is the result; when the
utterance can follow the direction of
the imagination, we find an orator.
The prime conception in a mans head
if at work upon his moral ideas, the
result is faith, and faith
is the real substance of things.
Noah was moved to build the ak
through fear, which is one kind of
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

carries with il its own comment
Nobody will argue that the govern
ment ought to pay out four hundred
dollars in salaries to collect one dollar
of taxes. In 1882 the receipts from
internal revenue taxes amounted to
S146, 497, 595. The expenses of collect
ing these taxes were 2.S0 per cent.
The receipts from customs revenue
were S220.410, 730, and the expenses of
collecting the same amounted to 2.95
per cent. The protective tariff is a
great thing for the army of custom
house officials, but it is hard on the
people in more ways than one. The
The pruning knife of the practical re-
former is sadly needed in every
branch of the Ubiquitous system.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
Islam, the Shadow of Judaism.

Edwin De Leon in Frank Leslie's Magazine
for May.l
Like Judaism, Islam is based on
pure Deisn, and the Allah of the
Moslem is but the Jehovah of the
Israelites, while Mohammed is only a
second Moses-claiming only divine
mission, but no divine nature. Their
religion is but an after-growth of the
old Hebrew faith, which even in its
sanitary precepts, as given by Moses,
was revived by the Arab Prophet to
bring back a rude pagan people to the
worship of the true God. The sensu-
Gus nature OF the Greek deified at Ath-
ems the operations of nature and make
Gods people the heavens, the air, the
water and the earth. The more material
Roman, sternly practical in life and
thought-the American of olden time
lowered the standard of divinity to
his own level; and his gods parodied
only the Greek creations, and were
animated by the passions and lusts of
men. But the imaginative nature of
the eastern man, even in his dense
ignorance and barbarism, craved
something more spiritual than even
Greek or Roman, in their highest
civilization, demanded.
In their wild hearts they erected an
altar to that unknown god" to whom
the tickle Athenians dedicated that
solitary one, seen by st. Paul on the
hill of the Areopagus, and made the
text of his wondrous preaching.
To prove the strong similarity of
these two faiths, apparently so antip-
odal, it is .ecessary only to quote a
few lines from the poet who, more
than Byron, and only less than
Goethe, ;.has drunk of purest East"
and poured it out in most melodious
verse. 1 refer to Monckton Mines,
whose palm Leaves contain the
thought. In his poem entitled MO
hammedanism," he thus clearly de-
fines the great point where the two
creeds converge, in my Judgment, and
where both diverge from Christianity
"One God the Arabian Prophet preached to
One God the Orient still
Adores, through many realm OF mighty
A God OF Power and Will
A God that, ShrOuded in HiS.lOnely light,
Dwells utterly apart
From all the vast creations of His might,
From nature, man and art.
"a Power, that at Its pleasure will create,
To save or to destroy;
And to eternal pain predestinate,
As to eternal Joy.
No prophet here by common essence bound
At once to God and man;
Author Himself, and part of the profound
And ProVidential plan.
Thus, in the faiths old Heathendom that
shock,
Were different powers at strife
ATnl NAU mn obi trIlthg q
Christ's, in Sacred Life
So in this picture, drawn so clearly,
and painted so brightly, we see that
Mohammedanism is but the reflex OF
Judaism; and it is probably owing to
the very fact of this religious identi-
ty with a people they despise that the
prophets followers contemn and re-
vile those of Moses.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26


IT BEGINS to look as though the
ear is really going to be crowned
Serious troubles have, of course, been
anticipated, and an immense force OF
infantry, cavalry and police will be
concentrated at Moscow. livery Eu-
ropean government will be repre-
scented; and it is supposed that Ro-
man legate will De sent from the
Vatican. There cannot fail to be
much anxiety among these august
visitors in view of the threats of the
Nihilists. Not only have many army
officers been arrested recently, and a
large number of young women, but
it has actually been found that the
conspiracy extends to children. I'm
der such circumstances it is almost
impossible to provide against all like
nhood of a catastrophe.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

1T is admitted by the Republican
papers of New York that the party
in that state is in anything but ro-
bust condition. Discord has slapped
its strength. and prompt and skillful
treatment, it is conceded, only can
save it. Advice is being freely offered
by the political doctors, and some of
them suggest remedies of the heroic
order. The stalwart organs are of the
opinion that amputation is necessary;
that if the half-breed organs are
Topped off and cast aside the diseased
part of the organization will thus be
got rid of, and vigorous stalwart
blood will soon restore republicanism
to its former health. The half-breed
organs think the party is suffering
from foul excresences in the shape
of stalwart papers, and that these
should be pruned off in order to as
sure return of physical vigor.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

ATTENTION is being called to the
expense attached to collecting the in
ternal revenue. In the matter of col
lecting customs dues it is shown that
many an official position is main
tanned purely for the benefit of party
favorites, and that a great many po-
sitions could be abolished without
detriment to the government; in fact,
with credit to 1t. AS an illustration
of the extent to which this abuse ex-
lists, the collections and receipts at
some of the minor ports. in 1882, are
given. The figures show that at
fifteen of these ports the expenditures
for salaries vastly exceeded the re-
ceipts. At Petersburg, Virginia, the
receipts from customs amounted to
S57, while the expenditures for sala-
-ries footed up $500. AT George
town, South Carolina. the receipts
were s37, and the expenditures for
salaries S16S5. At Teche, Louisiana
the receipts were ST, and the ex-
penditures S7556. The enormous
disproportion between the receipts
from taxes and the expenditures for
their collections, In these instances,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
A MEMORIAL signed by influential

A MEMORIAL signed by influential
clergymen, including the Bishop of
Dover, the Bishop of Newcastle and
the Bishop of Truro, is to be pre-
scented to Mr.. Gladstone against the
affirmation bill. now before parlia-
ment, which will maintain "that the
deliberate removal of the name of
the Supreme Being from the form of
affirmation proposed in the bill, for
the purpose of admitting, as men,
Der of the legislature. by its respective
action, an open and avowed atheist
who has admitted that he has no relig-
ious scruples, is dishoncring to
Almighty God and contrary to the
spirit of our laws and constitution"
The mixing of church and state is
legitimate in Ireland, and that there
may be some color of right in the de-
mand of the bishops, but the oath is a
mere matter of form and amounts to
nothing. A witness whose purpose
is to lie will not be governed by the
oath.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
A Dream of Home.
[Dr Talmage in Frank Leslie's Magazine for
Mayl

May.l
One night, lying on my lounge when
very tired, my children all around
about me, in fill romp and hilarity
and laughter-on the lounge, half
awake and half asleep-I dreamed
this dream: / was in a far country. 1t
was not Persia. although more than
Oriental luXuriance crowned the
cities. 1t was MT the tropics, although
more than tropical fruitfulneSS filled
the gardens. 1t was not Italy, al
though more than italian softneSs
filled the air. And wandered around
looking for thorns and nettles,
but found that none of them grew
there; and saw the sun
rise, and l watched to see it set, but it
sank not. And l saw the people in
holiday attire. and said, When will
they put off this and put on work.
mems garb, and again delve in tue
mine, and swelter at the forge?" But
they never put off the holiday attire.
And l wandered in the suburbs OF
the city to find the place where the
dead sleep, and looked all along the
line of the beautiful hills, the place
where the dead might most blissfully
sleep, and l saw towers and castles,
and not mausoleum, or a monu
ment, or a white slab could | see.
And I went into the chapel of the
the poor worship? and where are
the hard benches on which they
sit? ?" and the answer was made me,
I'VE have no poor in this country"
And then l wandered out to find the
novels of the destitute, and i found
mansions of amber and ivory and
gold, but not tear could l see, not a
sigh could l hear. And / was be-
wildered, and | sat down under the
branches of great tree, and l said,
"Where am /? and whence comes all
this scene?" And then out from
among the leaves and up the tiowery
paths and across the broad streams
there came beautiful group Uhrong-
ing all about me, and as l saw them
come l thought l knew their step,
and as they shouted L thought l
knew their voices; but then they
were so gloriously arrayed in apparel
such as L had never before witness
ed that / bowed as stranger to
stranger. But when again they clap
ped their hands and shouted, "Wel-
come, welcome" the mystery van
ished, and | found that time had
gone and eternity had come, and we
were all together again in our new
home in heaven; and looked around
and [ said, "Are we all here?" and
the voices of many generations re-
sponded, "All here!'' And while tears
of gladness were running down our
cheeks, and the branches of the Leb-
anon cedars were clapping their
hands, and the towers of the great
city were Ginning their welcome, we
all together began to leap and shout
and sing, Home. home, home, homer'
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
SONGS OF THE SAN JACINTo.
Ely j. j. ANDERSON.
by Alamo's bloody altar.
La-Hsv. - TynaafA-ah

by Alamo's bloody altar.
Fannin's HecatO:nb
Charge, my braves. the foe, nor falter-
Ills his day OF doom.
Yeomen of the woods and prairie,
Brothers from affair,
Cheered their chieftain bold and wary,
= Saw that lonely star.
Justice ev'ry rifle pointed;
Vengeance drew the sword;
Each with freedom cause Amounted
Swift obeyed the word.
How they swOOped with fearless valor
Down upon the fOei
How the tyrant quakes with pallor
At his overthrow.
Freedom scanned the book of ages
Through the heavy past,
Wrote this fms in its pages:
mot the least, but last"
Then he canoniZed with honor
Houston and his band,
Waved on high the Lone Star banner
Der glorious band.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

WHILE opinion seems to be crys-
talizing into a unit as to the standing
of the states chief executive, there
appears to be no division of adverse
sentiment as to the standing of the
states supreme court. Without dis
paragement to the able jurists who
have preceded them on the supreme
bench, it may safely be asserted that
our supreme court is one of which
any state might feel proud. They are
all in the prime of life. and each mem
Der stood in the front rank of his pro-
fession before his election. Each has
grown ap during the last thirty
years with our system of Jur-
isprudence. and the court thus
constituted seems to fully meet
the expectations of the bar. The
vast accumulation of business on the
dockets, both at Austin and Calves
ton. is unfortunate, but it is believed
that in another year, with the aid of
the able members of the commission
OF appeals, the dockets viii be so re-
duced as to give more time for care
full preparation of opinions. and this
viii render their labors less arduous.
We trust the time win soon come
when an enlightened public opinion
win demand change in the constitu-
ton giving to judges in our courts of
last resort a salary more commensu-
rate with the vast labor and response
sfiities of their position.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

THIS is the way the Washington
Star writes about the Williams Ranch
aerolite:
1.-The earth seems to he travelling
through meteoric field just now.
From Rome the report comes that on
the 10Th of February some peasants
working in field near BreScia were
startled by hearing a loud report like
thunder. Looking up they saw the
clouds torn open, and a large body
followed by IA train of blush smoke
hurting through the air over their
heads, with the noise of an express
train. The aerolite buried itself In
an adjoining field, the fall causing a
shock like that of an earthquake. 1t
was felt ten kilometres away,
while the report was heard at Verona
and PlacenZa, many miles distant.
When they had recovered from their
fright the peasants hurried TO the
spot and found a clean hole about
three feet deep, running in an obllque
direction from north-northeaSt; and
on digging down they came toa solid
block, in the form of truncated cone
weighing from 400 to 500 pounds.
This was Il baby meteor compared to
the Texas stone, which covers an
acre, buried itself 100 feet below
ground and rises seventy-iive feet
above the surface.
BY this time the Star, and the
numerous other papers that discoursed
on the great aerolite so earnestly
| have found out that in the light OF
explosive things nothing has ever
| euualed the Texas aerolite.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

THE gossiping world remembers
the marriage, few years ago, of the
daughter of Gov. Hubbard, of Con-
necticut, to her fathers coachman.
The father disowned the girl, and
love ensued for a time. Then came,
ME part of the wife, fondness for
congenial social entertainment, and
the wife became what is termed
"fast," and now there is divorce and
all that belongs to its conditions un-
der such circumstances. A member
of congress and one or two other
prominent men are mixed up in
scandals attaching to the affair.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
Female Education.


Between the virtues of women and
the cultivated intellect of man the
race continues to progress, nothwith-
standing many hindering causes. We
must put up the bars against hobbies
and fanaticism in every direction. 1t
is only truth to say-and we should
be cautious never to weaken our
selves by declaring otherwise-thata
little whisky or little tobacco, used
at intervals of eight hours each day,
would neither lengthen nor shorten
life. But it is safe to assert if the
habits OF women were as defective in
the unnerving abuses of whisky and
tobacco as those of men, few centu-
ries would well nigh wreck the race.
Women are naturally better than men.
1t is the descent of their virtues,
through heredity, from generation to
generation, despite the sins and wick
edness of men, that preserves the
equilibrium of excellence and thus
perpetuates the health, power, intel
tect and character of the human spe-
ties. We find continued compensa-
ton in the conserving power of wo-
man. Everything is inherited that
goes to make up the human being,
from the color of the hair to the struc-
ture of the finger nails. The most en-
couraging fact in connection with
the improvement of the race is that
acquired capacities are capable Of
transmission. Education is the meas
ure of progress. Endowments follow
training and culture. How import
ant, then, that women should receive
the highest brain culture attainablei
The span of life is short. 1t is i'm
portant that people should be born
with more intellect, loftier natures
and greater tendency to occupy u
higher moral plateau. Education is
the chief factor of evolution. We
blot out half the resources of the hui
man race, at least, when we fail to
confer upon woman facilities for the
highest intellectual training. A man
with weak-minded mother is but
half-born.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
PROBABLY A FALSE REPORT.

New YORK, April 23-At the Office
of the Northern Pacific railway
statement was made this evening that
they have no adyices tending 70 indi-
cate the existence of dangerous foods
along the line Of road, as Iciuit.ai
this mornings dispatches. In fact.
the track, which was reported to have
been under water between Steele and
Bismark, is on high plateau, and
they have never heard of its being
flooded. jamestown is on bluff, and
not subject to floods. The company
is unadyised of washouts along the
road, though they are in daily commu-.
nication with their general manager.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

DALLAS, April 23.-The Retail jew
elers' Protective association of Texas
met in annual convention in this city
to-day. The meeting is largely at
tended, delegates being present from
all parts of the state. Reports OF COM
mittees were received and general Pre-
liminaries disposed of. The conven-
ton will be in session two days and
close tomorrow night with BAN
quet.
The citizens meeting to-day to con-
slider street paving was largely at
tended, and satisfactory in its results.
a committee of five was appointed to
act with the mayor and the COM
mittee of the council on streets
and bridges, and report to the city
council next Saturday night. The
different kinds of paving material will
be thoroughly discussed, and after the
report is made the council will I'M
doubtedly advertise for bids and start
the work of paving at once.
The business mems meeting, to ar
range for renewal of the Texas and
st. Louis narrow gauge subsidy notes
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
A Marked difference.
IFree Press.J

AS to Russell, he seems to have
been made victim, while men no
better than himself go scot free. He
like Ochiltree, was a candidate for
congress last year, but unlike him was
defeated. If he had been successful,
does any one suppose he would now
be under sentence to the peniten-
tiary, or that the prosecution against
him would ever have been heard from
again? We confess we are unable to
see any substantial difference between
the positions and characters of the
two men. Yet one is a member of
congress, while the other is booked
fer the penitentiary.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

A PROMINENT and successful mer-
chant says that when he is tired and
wants rest he does not go off on a
tour and spend money. but he just
takes his advertisement out of the
paper. 1t has about the same effect
as a pest flag hung in front of his
place of business,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

THE Bolton Journal did not under
stand the influences that control
executive favor when it endorsed ex-
Comptroller Brown so unqualiiiedly
for the financial agency of the peni'
fonf;oriou