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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
PERSONAL.

Caroline Lee Hentz's son is a doc
tor and an orange grower in Florida.
NJ. Pasteur, the French scientist.
proposes to investigate the cholera in
Egypt.
NJ. Edmond About is said to have
every chance of being elected to the
French academy.
Field Marshal Won Moltke travels
about incognito, and has been taken
for beggar and a tramp.
Ex-Gov. Stanford, of California.
owns one ranch at Vina, Tehama
county, covering $4,000 acres of land.
1t will be planted in grapes.
Mr.. Judah p Benjamin has been
offered 1000 guineas as fee on a
brief in Canadian appeal case, but
be declined it on the plea OF poor
health.
The daughter of an earl stopped
dancing with the prince of Wales
and openly refused to go on because
he was holding her too closely, and
otherwise misbehaving himself, in a
large ballroom. She left him in the
middle of the floor and asked an ac-
quaintance to take her to her mother.
DR.. Oliver 5. Taylor, of Auburn N.
Y, the one surviving member of
Dartmouth Colleges class of 1908, is
now in mis- Tooth year of life. and en-
Joys perfect health of mind and body.
he has never been sick but day and
a half, and has never had a headache.
The one slight attack of sickness oe-
CURED some Seventy-three years ago
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
THE TELEGRAPHERs' STRIKE.

The telegraphers asked an increase
in pay, a lessening of their hours of
work, extra pay for Sunday labor. and
equal pay for both sexes. 1t is esti-
mated that the annual increase in pay
in compliance with these demands,
would be $1,543,000 for the operators
and linemen engaged on commercial
duty. and $l,0l6,0O0 for the railway
telegraph employees, making in all
s.. 1858, 600. The unanimity with which
this demand was made would indicate
that it is just and yet it cannot be
stated as so. The increase covers an
enormous sum, and it is questionable
whether the telegraph company can
comply; in fact the indications are
that it will hold out against the oper-
ators. In the large cities good forces
are already engaged in place of the
striking operators. As rule, vast
number of intelligent men and wo-
men do not come to SO erious deter
mination Involving their employment,
without good ground for action, and
yet it has been repeatedly demonstra-
ted in these strikes. controlled BY COM
bination, that rash conclusions are
reached by the deliberate force of I'M
wise council. In such cases the con-
tentious and the turbulent go to the
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

number of farms onesqtiarter were
from 80 to 100 acres each, and two
fitths of them were from 100 to 500
acres in size. These farms were val
ued at twice as much as the railroads
of the country. The average value
of the farms, including lands,
fences and buildings thereon, was
$2540. The average amount spent
upon each farm for fences and repair
ing fences was less than $50. The
average amount spent in purchasing
fertilizers was only 81 for each farm.
The average value of products of each
sold, consumed and on hand for the
year 1879 was only $500 The value
of the agricultural implements and
machinery owned and in use that
year averaged only 500 each. The
average value of live stock was 1910
each.
At the time of taking the first CEN
suS, in 1890, Seven-eightS of the people
of Massachusetts were engaged in ag-
riculture, but in 1880 less than one
eleventh of them were occupied with
that industry. In the great states of
New York and Pennsylvania less
than One-fourth of the persons in all
occupations are engaged in farming,
and in Illinois. the greatest agricul-
tural state of the country, less than
One-half of the people are engag, in
agriculture. In Massachusetts six
times as many people are engaged in
manufacturing as in farming.
Let us observe what our farms and
farmers are annually producing for
every man, woman and child of the
country's population. The year 1880
produced for each person thirty
bushels Of corn, nine bushels of
wheat, eight bushels of oats, one
bushel of barley, two-fifths of Il
bushel of rye, one-tenth of a bale of
cotton, three pounds of wool, two
thirds of IA ton of hay, half a pound
of hops, two pounds of rice, ten
pounds of tobacco, three and half
bushels of Irish potatoes, and half a
! bushel OF sweet potatoes.
OF animals there was one hog for
every person, one horse for every five
persons, one mule for every twenty
eight persons, one mich COW for
every four persons, and two sheep for
every three persons. There were fiji
teen and half pounds of butter and
a half pound of cheese made for each
person, and the cows averaged sixty
two and half pounds of butter for
each year. Although our farm pro-
ducts seem immense in amount
it is an astonishing fact that
if every acre of Illinois was devoted
to wheat for one year, and the aver
age yield should be the moderate
amount of fifteen bushels to the acre,
the crop would exceed in amount the
entire wheat crop for last year. If
the state of Missouri was wholly
planted with corn. and should give a
moderate yield of fifty bushels to the
acre, the aggregate would equal the
entire corn crop of the country for
the year 1880. The state of Kansas
alone can raise beef enough to feed
the present population Of the coun-
try. When we have ten times our
present population, and when all our
lands are as well cultivated as the
valley of the Nile, the aggregate of
the farm products will be expressed
in figures difficult to comprehend.
Agriculture is becoming chemistry,
and husbandry is becoming mechan-
les, so that one good man to-day can
do as much work upon a farm as four
men did fifty years ago.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
Stories of Roses.

A Turk can by no means endure to
see the leaves of roses fall to the
ground, because some believe that the
first rose was made from a drop of
Venus blood, and others that it came
from the sweat of Mohammed The
GheberS believe that when Abraham,
their first great prophet, was thrown
into the fire bY order of Nimrod, the
flame turned into a bed of roses, upon
which the child Slumbered sweetly.
This is alluded to in "Lalla ROokh,"
by the lines:
when plying heaven to roses turned
The death-fiames that beneath him burned. -
HeTodotus writes of roses in the
garden of Midas, the son of Gordus, in
Phrygia, that had sixty leaves, grow
ing with little trouble, and more ira
grant than all the rest. LuculluS,
the Roman general spent fabulous
sums in order to be able to have them
at all seasons; and in the time of the
Roman republic the people used not
to be satisfied unless their cups of
Falernian wine were swimming with
roses. At the regatta of Baix the
whole surface of the Lucrine sea used
to be strewn with this flower. At the
grand banquetS which Nero
gave, he caused showers of roses
to be rained down on his
guests from an aperture in the cell
ing. HeliogabaluS carried this to
such an insane length as to cause the
suffOcation of several of his guests,
who could not eXtricate themselves
from the heap of flowers. And Anti
Ochus, even in winter, slept in a tent
of gold and silk and on bed of roses.
| Cleopatra, when she entertained An
tony, covered the floor of the ban
quoting room tC the depth of an ell.
and Heliogabalus was not content
with drinking a certain kind of wine
made of roses, but was eXtravagant
enough to battle in the wine of
rose.'
To dream of roses denotes happy
love, but not unmiXed with sorrow
from others. 1t typilies an artist and.
is the emblem of love. The rose as a
symbol of silence gave rise to the
phrase Under the rose" from the
circumstance of the pope's presenting
cOnsecrated roses which were placed
| over confessionals to denote secrecy.
1t is also said that the phrase is Of
Greek origin, originating from the
old custom of SuSpendlng rose over
the guest table as an emblem that the
| conversations should not be repeated
elsewhere. Cultivated roses were
first planted in England in 1922, the
damask rose being introduced from
the south of France some time prior
| to a. ID. 1903, the moss rose in 1124
and the China rose about 1887.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
Hannibal Hamlin's Story About
Webster.
Cincinnati Enquirer.


What public man, Mr.. Hamlin,
was the ablest that you ever found ~
Daniel Webster lowered Il head
and shoulders above any of them.
He was one of those men who be-
came greater as you approached
him. That can be said of few
men III this world. The near
er YOU came to Webster the more
you saw and acknowledged his
greatness. | can remember little
speech he made which has never been
referred to in print, and as both the
parties are now dead do not object
to telling you about it. You remem-
Der James M. Mason, of Virginia,
what patrOniZing, supercilioGs man
he was. He had no love for Webster,
and on one occasion he arose in his
place with little pamphlet which
ascribed to Mr.. Webster certain Ian
guage, and on that Mason proceeded
to make speech. Webster was
drunk. He listened as well as he
could to what Mason was saying, and
then he got up, so unsteady at first
that he held to his desk with both
hands, but, as he proceeded and be-
came more luminous and clear, he
raised first one hand and after while
he raised both hands, and he made
such a speech IS [ think Inever heard
to peel an opponent all to pieces. He
called for the pamphlet after a
while. and Mason sent it over to
him. He held it up with look of
contempt on his great rugged coun-
tepance, and turned it over and said,
No title page, anonymous. No au-
thor, the poor thing is fatherless,
motherless. This you call a docu-
ment.' Mason watched him with APP
prehension. Then Webster address ed
himself to the language ascribed to
him IN the pamphlet, and it had
seemed to us senators who heard
Mason that the language was capable
of the Interpretation he had given it.
Indeed, there seemed no other inter
probation. But Webster, with that
logical, legal mind he had, in very
few minutes convinced everybody
present, Mason included, that the lam
guage not only did not mean what
Mason read, but that it meant the
very opposite. AS soon as he brought
this out Mason wanted to apologize,
but Webster, towering up, told him
to take his seat. We saw by MaSOn'S
face that he felt he had got himself
into place that would do him no
credit. Then Webster continued, and
the eXcoriation was something indie
scribable, yet all the while severely
contemptuous; just in the manner to
cut Mason to pieces and make him
feel it, for you know he was nothing
if not a lord over somebody.
AT the end of the speech one of the
senators said to Webster, You have
used him all up; letit not be printed
in the public debates Very WE'LL
said Mr. Webster, let the dog 60 T"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

tive department of the Western
Union was early on hand to-day and
full of business. Not a small part OF
their occupation was the reading of
congratulations and encouraging tele-
grams from various officers and SUI
perintendents of the company. The
most noteworthy of these was that
from General Superintendent R. G.
Clowry, sent last night from Chicago.
His is the largest and most important
district in the country, covering the
entire West as far as the Pacific coast.
He reports as follows: The situation
is improving rapidly. st. Louis has a
full force and the Southwest is loyal
At the principal points in Texas, Ar
kansas and Louisiana nobody has left.
The whole force has returned TO
work at st. Joseph, Mo-, saying
they had been deceived. Five of
them will return at Evansville, and
five or six will go back in the morn
ing. All the force at Columbus,
| o., are in the union. but refused
to strike. Superintendent Miller. at
| Cincinnati, reports business clear last
night, except for Memphis. He says
everything is up at Cleveland and
Detroit. Superintendent Wallack, of
the Indiana district. is very solid.
Business is up in his district. Su-
perintendent Dickey, at Omaha, re-
ports that his offices are well manned.
Superintendent Clowry adds: I'VE
have more men in Chicago tonight
than we can use, and they are pour
ing in" The following has been is
sued 10y the Western Union telegraph
| pnmnanU n nfiioialS.
Five hundred dollars reward
will be paid for the arrest
and conviction of any person
or unlawfully or maliciously injuring,
molesting or destroying any of the
property, lines, posts, wires or cables
of this company, or in any way OBJ
structing or interfering with the
sending of its messages by injury to,
or interference with, the wires, bat
teries, currents or instruments on the
lines of this company.
! THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRPH
Co, by THOMAS ECKERT, Acting
President.
n. 1.-THE full penalty of impris-
onment and fine provided by law for
the above named offenses will lie en-
| forced in all cases.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
The Efficacy of Vaccination,


In the last century, before vac
cination was discovered. the mortality
from smallpox was 1900 per million.
With voluntary vaccination the pro-
portion was reduced to 600 per mil
lion, state-aided vaccination reduced
it to 305, and compulsory vaccination
brought it down to 146. 1t is not
necessary to attribute this vast and
beneficent reduction in the virulence
of a loathsome and dreaded disease
entirely to vaccination. Sanitation
may be credited with its fair share,
but it's share is limited, and can, as
Sir Lyon Playfair showed, be deter
mined with reasonable precision;
while the reduction in the prevalence
of smallpox concurrently with sue
cessive increase in the stringency
with which vaccination has been
enforced establishes a presump-
ton in favor OF vaccination so
strong as to the amount in the minds
of reasonable men to practical GER
tainty. So much for the argument
that vaccination is no protection
against smallpox. As for the state
ment that vaccination maT in certain
cases induce other diseases, it must
be admitted that the rare and excep-
tio1al cases such communication has
taken place. But the evil effects due
to this cause ca-not for a moment be
compared to the infinitely greater
beneficial effects due to vaccination
when unaccompanied by any such eff
fects. Where 1900 persons in 1000
600 woul have died of smallpox in
the last century, only 1876 out of
100000 will die in the present day.
and probably not one out of 100000
of vaccinated persons ever suffers
any evil effects from imprudent or
infected vaccination. Even if the
proportion can be shown to be far
greater, that is only reason for
greater care and caution in the pra
tice of vaccination, and affords nc
ground whatever for abandoning the
practice altogether.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
Value Of Cotton.Seed Meal.

| wish to relate an experiment made
by Il neighbor in feeding cotton-seed
meal to cows, which, although small
one, yet, owing to it's having been
made with perfect accuracy, just as
valuable as if on ever so large scale.
He has but little land, and only keeps
three cows. He was in the habit of
giving one-third of quart night and
morning of cOtton-seed meal to each
COW. For a few weeks he got out of
this. when the COWS Immediately fell
off one and a half pounds of butter
per week, and fully one quart per day
in milk. He then began feeding cot
ton seed meal again, when they i'm
nediately came back to the old yield
Of milk and butter. The price he gets
for this extra pound and half, sold
in the village near by, is a little more
than the cost of the ration of cotton
seed meal he feeds. But this is telling
only half the story, for he gains quite
as much in flesh of the cows. 1t also
keeps them in finer general condition.
and it enables them to better digest
their other food. In addition their is
the gain of the quart of milk per day.
So small a ration of cotton seed meal
does not effect the taste of butter at
all if it did, my neighDor could not
get the families he supplies to take it,
Tor they are ry fastidious as to the
taste and aroma of their butter. Cot
ton-seed meal may be safely fed to
dairy COWS, from half pint to a quart
night and morning, according to their
size and the other food given them.
But more than this | would not re-
commend, as it might affect their be-
coming pregnant Steers may be fed
twice this quantity without danger OF
injuring the taste of their beef-Cor.
Life Stock Journal.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
Why Texvs Should Have Cotton
Manufactures.

a North Carolina correspondent of
the New York Tribune says the
Southern cotton manufacturing in
dustry has taken so strong hold
upon the Southern capitalist, or at
tracing so many capitalists from the
North as to promise to revolutionize
the runious system of farming that
has so long prevailed, and the Southern
farmer may after while be able to
work his farm on a cash basis, in
stead of having his crop mOrtgaged
before it is planted. One of the
Southern manufacturers advantages
lies in his ability to take the product
almost from the field, needing scarcely
any transportation until it has reached
the condensed form of the manufac-
tured article, to the value of which
freight charges bear small proper
ton to that of the bales of
raw cotton. He has the further
advantage of buying his cotton
at half cent per pound less than his
Northern competitor pays. He saves
further IN using uncompTeSSed cotton
and has another advantage in buying
cotton of merchants near home when
if bale does not prove equal to the
sample he stuff rs no loss. But the
chief advantage of the Southern man
ufacturer lies in the fact that he can
use the uncompressed cotton, thus in
surfing muslin of far superior wear
ing qualities to that made of the COM
pressed cotton. This advantage alone
will close out Old England and New
England competition whenever south
ern manufactures are fairly estab-
lished. The only limit to Southern
cotton manufacturing is lack CT cap
ital. The correspondent says: No
expression is more common in south
ern business circles and even among
politicians than that the Northern
capitalist is not only welcome, but is
eagerly desired, and further. that
Northern capital is coming not only
where it will do the most good. but
where it will multiply itself most
| speedily and surely.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
Sweet Corn and SORGHUM.

Mr.. a. b. Allen writes to the New
York Tribune as follows about sweet
corn and sorghum cane for summer
feed for COWS:
Il found last season that sorghum
cane of the amber var;ety-the earli-
est | know and as sweet as any have
tried-endured drought better than
corn, but that my stock preferred the
latter, which was contrary to the ex-
perience of friend, and was doubt
less SO because of the fact that L
choose for feeding green the best
sorts of sweet corn, sow it not over
thick in drills three feet apart, and
cut the stalks from the time they be-
gin to silk till the grain is in the milk !;
never let it pass this stage. The
stalks do not grow over half to
three-fourths of an inch in diameter
at the butt; they are consequently
tender and sweet their whole length,
and thus are greedily eaten up from
one end to the other. There is one
advantage of growing amber cane
over corn in the latitude of 80 degrees
and lower-we can get two crops of
it from the same sowing in one sea-
son, provided it be fair average one
and no unusual late frost in May or
an early one in October. Prepare the
land as for corn; strike out shallow
drills with the pillow three feet apart.
and drop the seed sufficiently close to
have the stalks stand about an inch
apart in the drills. A hand seed
sower may be used for this purpose.
Some say that it is not so hardy as
corn, and it should not, therefore, be
sowed so early Others say the
growth for the first few weeks is very
slow l find, thus far, neither of
these assertions true. l sowed at the
same time as corn; it came up quickly
and grew right OF, rapidly. / earn
estly advise my fellow-farmers to ex-
pertinent with this plant for forage"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

Gen. John B. Gordon assigns as his
reason for resigning the presid ency of
the Georgia Paci fic railroad, a desire
to Civ e his undivi ded attention to his
railroad and other schemes in Florida.
The Georgia Pacific road is practically
completed, and il is claimed that Gen.
Gordon has redeemed every pledge
made when he assumed control OF
that unpromising enterprise.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
The Proposed Judicial Amendment


This brings US to the last proposed
aflendment-that of having but four
terms a year of the county court fol
civil ard criminal business instead OF
as now having six of each with separ-
ate terms. Our first objection is that
trials under the proposed amendments
both civil and criminal. may be de
layed third logger than under the
constitution as it now Stands. To
illustrate: BY the change a person
may lay in Jail. at the expense of the
county, for three months, whereas
without it he would remain in jail
but two months. In civil cases the
burden of delay falls on individuals;
and the delay in either case is alike
Objectionable. We have too much
delay already. Another objection is
that the proposed change gives but
one term quarterly for civil and
criminal business, while we favor
separation of the civil and criminal
causes by separate terms.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
THE New York Sun says:

Mr.. Hoadly favors a system of per-
manent tenure of office. We do not
believe in any such system. We agree
rather with a distinguished Republic
can who lately returned from a pro-
tracted sojourn in the city of Wash
ington: Il have seen good deal Of
the different. departments this win
ter" he said, land tell you the at
nUsphSre is bad, thoroughly bad.
Eight years is as long as any man
ought to stay there in Office"
A system of permanent tenure
would produce evils more serious than
any that now exist.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
Shows the wisdom.

The firm of Handy & Allen, of
Tennessee, bid $4,000 per annum for
the hire of convicts of the state for
six years. This shows the wisdom of
the legislature in annulling the lease
made by the penitentiary board of the
Roberts administration, for $4,000
per annum for fifteen years. The
stale will ger under under this bid
$4,000 more for two-ffths the time,
than they would under the abrog,sted
lease for fifteen years.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

Mr.. ARTHUR is considered one of
the very strongest of the Republican
candidates for the presidential nomi-
nation. lie has less enmities than
any other leading candidate, and
would probably be the strongest that
could be named. If nominated, he
would like to have Judge Gresham
given the second place on the ticket.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

AN article on the crown prince of
Prussia, written by Herr George Won
Bunsen, is attracting "a good deal of
attention. He predicts that when
the crown prince comes to the throne
he will abandon his fathers policy
and place Germany in the line Of mod
ern democracy.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

AS USUAL the authorities are per-
suading the public that the case of
cholera in London was sporadic and
not Asiastic. 1t would probably take
fifty death IA day in London from
Asiatic cholera to cause the authori-
ties to admit the presence of the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

THE American rifle team, thanks to
the generosity Of James Gordon Ben
net in sending them across the waters
are keeping up the credit of Ameri-
can gunners. Such work is great
deal nicer than hunting wild Apaches
in Mexico.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazett

The Cincinnati COMMERCIAL Gazette
rs anxious that "Dorsey's private let
tiers should be dumped upon the
country" 1t will be interesting to
note the comments of the Commercial
Gazette when Dorsey has dumped the
letters. 1t is probable that Dorsey
will be persuaded to save the g. o. r.
p, and that the dumping will not oc-
cur. Otherwise let the country pre-
pare to hold it's nose.