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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
POLITICAL NOTES.

Up to date the Massachusetts Re-
publicans have not found the some
body to beat Butler.
MIR. Passmore wanted the Republi
can nomination for state treasurer of
Pennsylvania. He didn't get it. "A
prominent Republican journal pub
lished at POttsville, where Passmore
resides. now declares that the conven-
ton afforded an admirable specimen
of boss rule.
The Washington Post rises to en-
phasize the fact that the Democrats
are in no special need of carrying
Ohio. but the Republicans are painful
ly conscious of their need of electing
Foraker.
Iowa Republicans want depart
ment of industry. Anything to swell
the army of placeinen suits the aver
age Republican, but just now the peo-
pie are preparing to turn the raScals
out and will not be likely to put any
more in.
Gov. Foster was interviewed in
Washington on the German vote in
Ohio and delivered himself to the
effect that outside of Cincinnati and
Cleveland the Republicans never had
10 per cent of it. He said: "In those
two cities about one-third of the Ger
mans have voted with US sometimes.
A German Catholic Republican is a
great rarity. / do not know that l
ever saw one. The saloon-keeping
Germans have been against US for
years, and 1 believe we will get as
many votes from Germans who are
not in the liquor business as we have
in previous years. The Importance of
the German detection, by which term
it is described in Democratic papers,
is greatly exaggerated and overesti-
mated. The detection is imaginary
in great part. We didn't even have
the German vote to begin with, and
they can't take from us something we
didn't have"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

FROM sugar and molasses the reve-
nue. last year was $49.210,573, on val
uation of 1914, $40, 1863, or So per cent
duty. The incidental taxation of con-
sumers was about $6,0O0,OOO a year
under the old law. Under the new
law reducing the duty on sugar from
aboEs cents to about 2 cents per
Pound, this taxation will, of course
'be less, while the revenues of the
treasury will probably be increased.
The sugar duties are for revenue in
cidentally for protection, while the
duties on iron and steel, wooden and
cotton goods and earthenware are for
protection incidentally for revenue.
For long time the protectionists
have been looking askance at the
sugar duties. They produce too much
revenue, and if repealed, the protec-
tive duties would be more secure from
assault.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

THE Philadelphia Record says,
there is no obscurity about the issue
between protection and tariff reform.
1t is easy enough TO understand that
tariff could be framed that would
produce as much revenue rs is now
derived from imports with little or no
incidental protection; but such is not
the Immediate aim of the advocates
of tariff revision. A sudden with
drawal of all protective duties would
cause among some branches of manu-
facture serious mischief, that might
react upon the whole industrial sys-
tenn of the country. Wise statesmen
like wise physicians dealing with the
human body, proceed cautiously in
removing the disease engendered in
the political system by mischievous
policy. While the aim of the pro-
teetionists IS to nurse the disease 10y
maintaining the protective system in
its utmost rigor, the opposite aim of
the advocates of tariff reform is to
gradually reduce protective duties
until the plethoric and diseased con-
dition of the political body disappears.
A tariff for revenue taxes the people
only for support of the government.
This tariff for projections cunningly
devised so as to make the Taxpayers
put from 81 to So into pri-
-Tate pockets for every dollar
that goes into the treasury.
One of the first acts of the ways and
means committee of the next house
on its organization in December, says
the Record, .swill doubtless be bill to
reduce the enormous taxation that
brings small revenue to the govern
ment. When such bill is passed by
the house it will probably be accepted
by the senate, and the president is
committed to it. by his last message.
But should the senate reject the bill
it viii form clear and definite issue
before the country in the election of
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
A Possibility of the Future.
[St. James Gazette.

On more than one occasion during
the last three thousand years the bar
barrie hordes of the East have over
flowed their boundaries and have
swept westward, overwhelming the
literating nearly all the landmarks OF
Western art and pragress; and at the
present time, if we may credit the
Pekin correspondent of one of the
Calcutta papers, there is in China a
powerful and rapidly growing party
that advocates the making of yet an
other gigantic excursion toward the
land of the setting sun. The Celestial
Empire is, no doubt, immensely over
populated, and will probably ere long
seek some new outlet for her surplus
citizens; but is difficult to believe that
she will attempt, save by peaceful
means, to attain the desired result
The great unknown country has been
quiescent for so long that it is almost
impossible for a European to con-
template the sleeping myriads should
ever again put forth their herculean
strength. Yet, if China were to
awake; if she were to look westward
with covetous glance, and were once
more to burst her bounds in response
to that mysterious impulse which in
the East occasionally seizes upon a
whole people, how could SIZE be re-
sisted? According to the last edition
of the Revolkerung der Erde she has
population of 434,OO0OO0; and, sup
posing that estimate-for it is only
an estimate-to be even approximate
ly correct, China could put into the
field more soldiers than there are souls
in Germany; and, if she so willed,
could, with a host of 100000 tram
pie all the civilization of Europe be-
meath her feet.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
An Eelskin Bathing Dress.
Correspondence Chicago Tribune. j


But Intakes an actress to keep con.
spicuously ahead of the styles in any
department of dress. Etelka Borry,
of the German theatres, and whose
venture in English as Camille, at the
Fifth Avenue, was an event in last
winters dramatic season in New
York, has audaciously outstripped all
competition on the Long Branch
beach. beg you itolbelieve that am
accurate in describing her attire, be-
cause had ample time to note it at
nv leisure. To begin with, Mime.
Borry is as beautiful in form as she
is ugly in features. She, therefore
shrewdlv shaded der face from the
searchi ~ glare by means of a hat
with a wide brim tied down, while
barring her arms their entire length
to the sun Her body was snugly
incased in, bright blue, of a woven
fabric, and red belt girded her slen-
der waist. There was not a square
inch of skirt, but short blue trunks
instead. Red stockings of the finest
silk, embroidered in black, completed
the costume. No eel was ever more
closely fitted by its /, skin than this
woman by her single thickness of
clinging materials. Thus attired,
Nine. Borry emerged from the West
End bath houses, sauntered into a
throng of not less than 200 men and
women, airily carrying red velvet
parasol over her head. Throwing
aside her parasol, she plunged into an
incoming wave, came up beyond 1t
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

The Irish churches hold their an
nual meetings a little later than the
churches in England, Scotland and
the United States. The synod of the
Episcopal church, the assembly of the
Presbyterian church and the confer
ence of the Methodist church have all
been held since the assemblies and
conferences in the countries referred
to. The Irish meetings, spite of the
trouble through which the country
has passed, have been wonderfully
successful of them reporting gen.
eral progress. In the general assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian church reso-
luton was passed to the effect that
the friendly relations which have ex-
listed for so many years between the
Presbyterian church in Ireland and
the Free church of Scotland be ex-
tended to the Established church and
the United Presbyterian church.
Since the times of the disruption the
Irish assembly has been strongly af-
fiIiated with the Free church of Scot
land. The new movement shows a
desire for larger union, for a more
generous and extended fellowship. 1t
is a move in the right direction. The
old cause for quarrel is no more.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09


UNDER the protective system
through which the treasury obtained
$2OO.00O,000 of revenue last year, more
than $55O,OO0,Oo0 besides was drained
from the taxpayers of the country. If
none of this $55O,OO0,OOO went into
the treasury it was not the less surely
paid in the enhanced cost of domestic
products through the protective tariff.
1t has been shown that for the $780,
358,936 Of revenue last year from du-
ties on foreign metals the consumers
paid 20,910,692 us bounty to manu-
facturers on the domestic metals that
they used. For every dollar of rev.
enue from iron and steel that went
into the treasury four dollars besides
were wrenched from the people by the
protective screw.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
HISTORICAL.

The Inauguration of Constantine
pie as the capital of the Roman en-
pire took place $50.
Under the old English law Judge
could carry a jury with him on cir
cult until it agreed or until he
reached the borders of the country.
So great was civic disorder in the
reign OF Edward II. that for a whole
year the mayor of London did not
dare hold its hustings.
The first in France to employ COM
pressed air for glass-blowing was
probably workman named Baccarat,
who, in 1924. invented small me-
chanical blower.
Mary Stuart planted trees about
all her residences, and taught her
son the same habit, which descended
to his daughter Elizabeth, and his
granddaughter, Sophia. p
The reason that Kent, Cornwall,
Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk Cumberland,
and several other divisions of Eng
land do not have the termination
shire is that they are ancient king
domS, and never were ''sheared" off
from Il greater whole.
After the battle of Lutzen Wallen-
stein distributed 85,210 gulden among
officers who had behaved well; but
he executed as towards eleven off,
GERS by the sword, he han ed others,
some had their swords broken by the
hangman under the gallows, and the
names of many were nailed in infamy
on the gibbet.
Henry the Third began to rebuild
Westminster Abbey in 1915; his work
ends with the first pillar of the choir.
Edward the First's closes with the
first pillar of the nave, which was
first used for the TeDeum in honor of
Henry the Fifth's victory at Asincour.
The west window was built in the
reign of Henry the Seventh.
The navigation of the air was a
thing to which men aspired long be-
fore the days of the Montgoliers.
Simon Magnus, according to Sueto-
MUS, met his death in Rome during
the reign of Nero, in an attempt to
fly from one house to another. Roger
Bacon had some idea of flying ma
chine worked by wings, and in the
latter part of the fifteenth century
Dante, a mathematician of Perugia,
is said to have risen above Lake
Thrasimena, by means of artificial
wings attached to his body.
The coronation hall which narrowly
escaped destruction when part of the
Hotel de Vile AK la Chapelle was
burned last month is 1872 feet long,
sixty feet wide, and twenty-eigh and
a half feet high. In it thirty-two
kings and twelve queens have feasted
during their coronation festivities.
The principal objects of interest in
this hall are the frescoes of Alfred
Rethel, which were executed between
the years 1886 and 1853, and take first
rank in the lresco art of the German
Empire. They portray eight of the
most famous incidents in the life of
Charlemagne. Fortunately this room
is protected by an arched iron roof
which withstood the shock of falling
debris, and thereby saved the frescoes
from the fate which seemed inevita-
BILE
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
THE cOwRoy.s BoNE.ANxA.
lay T. D, ~ NEW xoRK srAn

The cowboy mounted his mustang
And DER the prairieS rode.
Away in the wffds of Texas.
Remote from hlman abode.
Through jungles and tangled briarS,
And grasses that dripped with dew,
The cowboy and mustang flew.
But why hath the mustang halted?
And why doth he SILVER and shake?
Aud why doth he rear on his hinder legs
And shudder and tremble and quake?
For conduct so strange and unequine
Some cause there surely must be.
But what is the matter with Hannah?
What doth the mustang see?
He sees, and so doth the cowboy,
A sight most uncommonly rare:
He sees five skeletons sitting
Upright i'll a carriage there!
Five skeletons solemn and silent,
Their bones bleached in the sun
A sort of skeleton family
Rusticating alone.
He sees two skeleton horses
Standing silent and glum,
Like couple of megatherlums
In the British Museum;
Two stately skeleton horses
Under big oak tree,
Standing erect and defiant
As skeleton horses can be.
And going over to them,
Begins in coroner fashion
To hold post n Or-tem.
He enters the skeletons carriage,
And there. with his skeleton KEYS,
COntriveS TO open the rusty lock
OF the skeletons big valise.
What treasures the cowboy found there
The telegram does not say,
For cowboys are not the sort of boys
For giving such things away
But he saw how bolt of thunder
Had riven the giant oak,
And SurmiSed that the whole caboOdle
Had been stunned by the one fierce stroke
And this is the tale of the cowboy,
And cowboys are not marines,
Although you may think that this story
A little bit that way leans.
And when Barnum comes here next winter
You'll all have a chance to see
The skeleton team and carriage,
And the skeleton family.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
Against the Farmers.
philadelphia Record.l

The vast majority of the American
people are engaged in farming, and
the farmers export wheat, corn, sheep
cattle, butter and chit ese. The prices
at what the farmers sell at home and
what they send abroad are regulated
by the prices in the Liverpool, Ant
werp and Havre markets. There are
protective" duties, it is true, on
wheat, corn and other agricultural
products, but these duties are inoper-
alive. They are put into the tariff for
a mere blind to persuade the farmers
of the country that they, too, are in
the protected ring. 1t would make
no practical difference to the farmers
of the United States if the duties on
their wheat or corn were one dollar or
one cent bushel. heduty, whether
high or low, can obviously
have no effect on the for
eign demand by which the
prices are governed. But it does
make a great deal of difference To the
farmer whether or not he shall pay
high protective taxes on his clothing,
blankets, salt, iron, nails, grain liags
and farm implements. Under this
protective system he, must pay. not
only high taxes on nearly everything
that he is obliged to import from
abroad but high taxes on domestic
products. enhanced in toys by the
tariff In tue former case the taxes
go into the treasury for support OF
government; in the latter into the
pockets of other people, a chosen few,
who enjoy the especial favor of the
state. Since the farmer must sell his
grain and cattle in Liverpool, or must
take Liverpool prices for what he
sells at home, why should he not have
the right to buy his clothes, his salt
and his farm implements at Liver.
pool prices? The enormous incident
al taxation of the people through the
tariff system must be reduced.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
OUR DoCTOR,s ADVICE.
Don't.


Don't go to bed with cold feet.
Don't sleep in the same under gar
ments that are worn during the day.
Don't sleep in room that is not well
ventilated. Don't sit or sleep in a
draught. Don't lie on the left side too
much. Don't lie on the back, to keep
from snoring. Don't try to get along
with less than seven or eight hours
sleep out of twentv-four. Don't jump
out of bed Immediately on awaking
Yourself well all over with d crash
towel or hands before dressing. Don't
forget TO take a drink of pure water
before breakfast. Don't take long
walks when the stomach is entirely
empty. Don't start to do days
work without eating a good
breakfast. Do not eat anything but
well-cooked foods. Do not eat what
you do not want just to save it. Do
not eat between meals, nor enough to
cause uneaSinesS at meal-time. Do
not eat the smallest mOrSel unless
hungry, if well. Do not try to keep
up on coffee or alcoholic stImulants,
when nature is calling you to sleep.
Do not stand over hot-air registers.
Do not inhale hot air, or fumes of any
acids. Do not fill the cash with SCOT,
sugar, or anything else to arrest the
| hemOrrhage when you cut yourself,
but bring the parts together with
strips of adhesive plaster. Do not wear
thin hose or light-Soled shoes in cold
weather. Do not strain your eyes by
reading on an empty stomach or when
i'll. Do not ruin your eyes by reading
or sewing at dusk, by a dim light,
or Pickering candle, or when very
tired. Don't sing or hOlloe when
your throat is sore or you are hoarse.
Don't drink ice water when you are
very warm, and never a glassful at a
time, but simply sip it slowly Don't
take some other persons medicine be-
cause you are similarly afflicted.
Don't battle in less than two hours
after eating. Don't eat in less than
two hours after bathing. Don't call
so frequently on your sick friend as
to make your company and CONVEX
sation a bore. Don't make practice
of relating scandal or stories calcu-
lated to depress the spirits of the sick.
Don't forget to cheer and gently
amuSe invalids when visiting them.
| Don't call on your sick friend and adj
| wise him to take some other medicine,
get another doctor, eat more, eat less,
sit up longer, go out more frequently,
stay a week, or talk him to death be-
fore you think of leaving.
In walking or other exercise, learn
to keep the mouth firmly closed, and to
breathe entirely through the nose.
| You can walk as far again with less
fatigue and without getting out of
breath than when you breathe through
the mouth. Try it.
Stomach ache, from indigestion,
may generally be relieved by lying on
the back and rubbing the abdomen
with the hands, pressing and rubbing
| downward.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

1t was for many centuries the pop.
ular belief among the Jewish people
themselves that they should be gath
cred out of all lands and taken back
to the land which Joshua conquered
for them, and which had been prom
ised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 1t
cannot be said that this belieI and
hope is yet wholly abandoned. 1t is
generally admitted, however, that the
land of Palestine would require to
undergo some very radical changes
before it could be regarded as a
tempting or desirable home for the
now scattered race. According to
our authority, the Jews are to become
masters of the world, and Palestine is
to become co-extensive with the
lobe. They are declared to be the
most vital of the races. They can
live in all chimes and in all ATTITUDES
Their energy is irrepressible. Their
faculty for money making is un-
equalled. They are the great bankers
of the world. During the last ten
years the Rothschilds alone have fur
nished loans to the amount of 50O,-
100000. 1t is claimed that they in.
crease faster than Christians, and
that of every 100000 persons the jew
ish death rate is 80, the Christians 143
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
If the clergy and the religious press

If the clergy and the religious press
could give the doctrine of future pro-
baton rest for little while. and
devote themselves to a consideration
of these more practical questions:
What is the Sabbath? What ought
it to be? How shall we preserve it I?
the change would be grateful to the
great body Of the laity. Nothing is
more certain than that a definite doc
trine is essential TO a wholesome
practice; and respecting the Sabbath
there is in America no definite doc
trine. The Puritan conception has
been definitely, and, in our opinion,
finally, abandoned. BY the Puritan
conception we mean the doctrine as
defined in the Westminster Confess
sion of Faith, that the Sabbath is to
be taken up, the whole time, in the
public and private exercises of His
Gods worship, and in the duties OF
necessity and mercy" This concep,
ton was never truly realized; hut
there was an honest endeav.r to real
ize it.-Christian Union.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

president and congress. There can be
none of the misconstruction of such
measure that would be made of
loose and general declaration in a
party platform. The bill will speak
for itself. 1t will then be for the peo-
pie to determine whether the enor-
nous incidental taxation which OPP
presses them shall be reduced, or
whether the cost of living shall be
maintained. If they decide adversely
they will go on bearing their burdens
awhile longer, and a few thousand
Democrats, more or less. will miss
what chance of Office the new civil
service system has left them. That is
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09


THE Abyssians have a tradition.
showing how mentally deficient was
our common ancestor. They say that
when Adam found the body of the
murdered Abel he carried it about on
his shoulders for twenty days, not
knowing how to dispose of it. The
Almighty took pity on him and sent
forth a crow with a dead young one on
its back. The crow flew before Adam
until it came to tract of sandy
ground, in which it dug hole with
its feet and there buried its young
one. When Adam saw this he dug a
grave in the sand and buried his dead
boy in it. And that was the institu-
ton of the grave.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

THE president of the United States,
the secretary of the treasury, the sec
rotary of war, the postmaster-general
and the acknowledgement of the army
were all present at the opening of
the Louisville Southern Exposition.
Mr.. Author pulled the chord that
opened the throttles of all the engines
and thus inaugurated the great expo
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

THE conviction of innocent men
upon charges of crime has been OF
such frequent occurrence OF late i'll
Germany that the press is calling ear
nestly for the passage of law to
secure decentralization at the hands
of the government in such cases.
There is nothing more than supreme
justice in such proposition. The in
Identification should not be partial
but full and complete.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
anne BrutaIIzing system.
[MemphIs Ayalanche.l

The custom of farming out con-
yicts is too brutalizing to be called
barbarous. Uncivilized people have
too much humanity aud common
sense to thus deal with their crimi-
mails. 1t is only enlightened people
who hand over their criminals to the
sconrge of cupidity, the most cruel
and remorseless of tyrants. The hui
name people should be aroused to the
iniquities OF this degrading convict
farming system, and they should
make their influence felt in our state
legislatures. The recent horrible af-
fair in Desha county. Ark, furnishes
an illustration of the abuses prac-
ticed under this odious system.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

ONTARIO pays $4,000 year for a
school for the practical education of
farmers. Quebec pays 5000. The
state of Texas pays more than Onta-
rio for an agricultural college and
does not turn out IA single practical or
theoretical farmer.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

THERE is yet hope for some of Aus
tins old inveterates. Steve Holcomb,
one of the Oldest gamblers in Louis
vile, has reformed, and is now a
Jealous city missionary. At least one
of our city wards needs resident
missionary, who knows the ropes.