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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18
How the Political Tide RIMS.

Every political canvass has its alter
nate waves of depression and eleva-
ton. In looking back over the presi-
Dental contests, from 1872 to the
present day, it is found that there has
in every one of them been an ebb and a
flow for the candidate who is finally
swept in upon the popular wave. The
change in current, too, seems to finally
shape results as to election or defeat.
In 1872 Horace Greely's nomination
was accepted as a thing to be fol-
lowed by certain success. Enthusiasm
ran high in his behalf, from one end
of the Union to the other, until the
delayed returns from North Carolina
produced a depression that was fatal
to his chances. Greedy went in on
full tide; he passed out with the land
it had occupied high and dry, a desert
bereft of all substenance. In 1876 the
republican nominee started out with
everything in his favor; all looked
fair in his behalf, but the popular
wave finally moved toward Tilden.
and he was elected by large popular
majority. of1the benefit of which he
was defrauded by the knavery of
men belonging to both parties.
Again in 1880, at one time a bet at
odds could not have been gotten that |
Hancock would not be elected. !
The whole country seemed to
be going for him, but !
q few fatal lines from his pen changed /
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

Gan unanimous vote of thanks), our
visitors slowly marched off to their
pasturage. 1t was quite clear to us
that the two first callers, gratified at
their friendly reception, had strolled
down to their sister gossips and dairy
companions, and had informed them
how l cannot say; can you?-of
their liberal entertainment, and then
had taken the very pardonable liberty
of inviting them up to our cottage
This morning we were again visited
by the first couple, bringing a stranger
with them; and / have no doubt these
morning calls will be regularly re-
peated. and afford my little household
fresh pleasure and amusement in ad-
ministering to their wants. The re-
markable thing to my mind was the
fact of the two first cows informing
the others, as most assuredly they did
of the treatment they had received
L state the simple facts. l have in my
time lived good deal in the country
but never remember anything like
this remarkable instance of the cows
intelligence.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18
PrOtecJlOn for DepOsitors.

Purely legitimate banking is altogeth-
er safe business for the stakeholder
of the bank as well as for the deposit
or. What is meant by legitimate
banking is when the capital of bank
and the money of depositors is applied
alone to recognized banking securities.
OF course there is no protection
against the thieving bank official, who
takes money and steals away with it,
except the very great certainty that
he will be overtaken and brought to
justice. But The losses of banks are
not often brought about by a literal
transfer of money from vaults to the
pockets of officials. Speculation. it is
proven, is the evil that lies at the bot
tom of nearly all bank failures. I'm
der the national banking system capt.
tai is certainly secure, but the security
rests in the government which holds
it for the redemption of notes of cir
culation, ultimately for the stockhold-
er. Therefore, for the depositor there
is no greater security in a national
bank than in private bank. This is
proven by the failure of number
of national banks. The bank at New
Brunswick was national bank, and
its deposltors are apparently hopeless
ly ruined. There is absolute demand
for better and safer security to deposit
tors than the honesty and fidelity of
bank officers. AS said, under the
national banking system the stock
holder is safe, but what the public
wants is safety to depositors.
There should be some device to COM
pei bank directors to be in fact what
they are intended in the eye of the
of the law to be. The plan of making
stockholders personally responsible for
the debts of the bank in which they |
own stock, not only to the extent of |
their stocks, but to the extent of |
their estates, seems to be the only
human device for compelling snch
vigilance as will prevent the robbery
of banking institutions by the persons
intrusted with their active manage
ment, If the directors of the national
bank at New Brunswick, N. j., had
exercised the function with which
they were clothed the defunct cashier
and president of that institution
would have had no opportun-
ity to rob its depositors. Notwith-
standing frequent lessons of late, these
New Brunswick bank directors took
no precaution. Banks that had en-
gagged in speculation, or whose officers
were using deposits for personal salts I
faction or speculation were failing all
about them, but they took no heed, /;
and the Wall street vampires were
sucking their bank dry, while deposit
tors were lulled into confidence. The {
game viii go on until men who go :
into the banking business are COM !
PEELED to put at least as great stake i
n it as the man who deposits his
money expecting to getit again when
called for. When there is no limit to :
he liability of stockholders a posi- :,
Die limit may be reached in the per- !.
recurring dishonesty and :
wholesale robberies which blot the 2 2
history of the banking business as :,
conducted in the United States. :
TIE result in Maine cuts no figure. Il
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18
Frost-proof Peach Trees.

Peach trees to endure most cold,
says Pomologist Augur, of Connecti-
cut, in Rural New Yorker, should be
supplied with every element needed to
make a sound, healthy growth of
mature wood; we should surely see
that there is no lack of potash, and so
also with regard to phosphate of lime,
magnesia in form of kieserite, and
nitrogen in form of sulphate of
ammonia. A good standard Peruvian
guano is not only beneficial. but, in
moderate quantities, essential. Prof.
Penhallow's formula kieserite %
pounds, muriate of potash 100 to $50
pounds, dissolved bone black $50
pounds, to an acre of 20 to
100 trees, or 6 to 9 pounds to
tree, with 100 pounds of sui
plate of ammonia per acre added, for
bearing orchard-I consider good
one. While 1 regard annual cultiva-
ton as very important, it should not
be extended beyond July. Autumn
growth is Objectionable. For the
bad in its effects in extending late
growth; neither a diminutive nor an
eXuberant growth can stand severe
cold well. Between the two extremes
there lies golden mean, which is the
safest for a peach grower. Again,
give no pruning from June until
November, or till the trees are bare,
for two reasons: First, not to start a
second growth; second, when the ter
minal buds are formed and extension
ceases, every leaf is doing work in
storing up supplies for future de-
mandS
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18
DOMESTIC NOTES.

Condensed from TelegraphIc Dispatches
During the Week
Pierre, OAK, had a $4,000 fire on
the 18th.
Michigan crops are better than for
several years.
The tobacco crop is the best for
several years.
A Touring mill was destroyed by
lightning on the 18th.
The earninga of the Union Pacific
for July were 81 .383,343.
General Freight Agent Lilly, of the
Gould lines, has resigned.
A $4,000 fire occurred at Pine |
Brook mines, near Scranton, Pa.
There were 1872 business failures in |
the United States for the last week.
There was big democratic ratiflca-
ton meeting at Washington, on the
18th.
The steamer Wyoming arrived at
New York with 500 Mormons for
| Utah.
President Arthur is in good health
notwithstanding reports to the con-
trary.
A Prussian laborer was blown up
by a keg of powder at Somerset, Pa,
lase week.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge, 1. o. o.
F., of the world, has been in session
at Chicago.
Walker Blaine, son of James G..
claims Maine for the republicans by
1900 majority.
The democratic convention of Wis
consin, nominated n. D. Pratt, of Ra-
cine for governor.
Mr.. F. p. Killeen, long secretary
and assistant general manager of the
Santa Fe, has resigned.
Rev. L. T. Mckinney has been put
up for congress by the democrats of
the 1st Massachusetts, district.
At Anchorage Asylum, KY, Evans
Allnut, an inmate, was assaulted by
an atten liant and fatally beaten.
The government has formally COM
plimented consul Mason, who stood to
his post at Marseilles during the cpl
demic.
The daughter of Morisina, Jay
Gould's secretary, eloped with Ernest
Schelling, her fathers private sec
rotary.
Liz lOSS0S ny Guo uOOu Ill OulppoWe
river, Wis, last week, are estimated
$1,5000,O00. All the bridges were car
ried away.
A number of delegates in the Gal
weston county democratic convention
: bolted in favor of nominating
!, county officers.
F At Cleveland, o., James r. Shipperd
. a prominent business man, suicided Oh
= account of disgrace from exposure o
q nefarious TRANSACTIONS.
Bowser, convicted of murder in tn
Murraysville, Pa, riots, has been bail
ed out of the penitentiary on accoun
t of some legal formality.
Ben johnson, negro, was hanged a
s Cincinnati on the 18th, for murderin.
e an old negro and his wife to furnish
: subjects for a medical college.
The tragedian, John Mccullough
, l. has been undergoing mental excite
: ment, and is under the hallucinatiol
: that persons are following to kill him
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18
PERSONAL,
Lord Tennyson will publish new
DOem some time this autI1mn

Lord Tennyson will publish new
poem some time this autumn.
Archbishop Ryan preached his first
sermon in Philadelphia at the late
mass at the cathedral last Sunday.
Young Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt
pooh-poohs the story that he recently
lost 100000 in stock speculation.
Mr.. Talmage returns to his Brook.
lyn pulpit proud of having shaken
hands with $4,000 sinners out west.
Muley Hassam, the emperor of
Morocco, can read and write, and is
the only subscriber to newspaper in
the empire.
Prime Minister Depretis has gone
to Monza, nsar Milan, to receive in
structions regarding King Humbert's
contemplated visit to Naples.
Queen Victoria has pretty well re-
covered from the accident to her knee,
although she cannot walk as she did.
and the loss for SO long a time of her
usual active exercises has had an un-
favorable influence on her health.
The venerable Simon Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, is more than midway
past his 85th year, but his mental
powers are undated. He has been
greatly bent in form during the last
year by the accident resulting in a
fall in his house some months ago.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18
Feeding Hens,

London Live Stock Journal in an
article on the above subject has some
good hints for poultry keepers. Speak
ing of overlooking it says:
If they begin to lay before they get
very fat, the service of egg produc-
ton calls for nutrition, and the food
is diverted in that direction, conse-
quently the young hen will not fatten
SO easily after she begins to lay as
though she had not commenced, but
should she become over fat without
laying it is puzzling matter to the
breeder how to reduce her in flesh
again without injury. An over-fat
fowl is nuisance, for should it lay
at all the eggs rarely hatch, and if
few chicks come from them they will
be weak and hard to raise. The hen
herself becomes diseased, soon breaks
down and is an eyesore to the whole
flock. The cocks are not exempt.
When too fat they are unserviceable,
and sterile, and might
as well be cooped up for
all they are worth. In fact.
they really do damage by injur-
ing the hens, and in no manner are
they profitable except for market.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

AN independent German club of
Cleveland, o., 1900 strong, has just
declared for Cleveland and Hendricks.
Little things like this have de-
cided the Republican managers that
it is necessary for both Blame and
Logan to stump Ohio in person.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

THE Post asked, the other day, not
pertinently, but impertinently in the
connection in which the inquiry was
made, if fair was really going to be
held this year in TexasY The fair
association at Houston died many
years ago, but that is no reason why
the one at Austin should follow suit.
Lack of generosity, such as was shown
by the Post in the inquiry referred to
above, is what killed the Houston as
ISOLATION. 1t is wei t.,A s., influences
are not so ungenerous as the Post, or
the Austin association would not ex-
list to-day to contemplate holding its
tenth regular annual fair.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

THERE seems to be a general de-
sire in and out of the United States to
hold fairs. The Capital State fair is
The only organization of its sort left in
Texas, and it is hoped the energies of
our citizens viii be bent in the direc-
ton of its hearty support.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

BEAR it in mind, the university
S.ad might have been made $4,000
instead of $4,000. which last sum it
was without an effort beyond legis-
lative adjustment of its monied annu-
ifv.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

BEEoHER viii take the stump for
Cleveland. The democratic nominee
win have to look out about this pro-
miscuous endorsement. 1t may be the
ruin of him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

SHOULD G. w. Jones and Web
Flanagan take the stump the papers
win stop talking about politics being
dry. They are two OF the ablest
stump orators in Texas, and both are
fearless as canvassers.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

It is not economy to moke garden
too many years in one place. The soil
becomes exhausted for one kind of
crop growing, and insects become
abundant. We have known farmers
to spend twice the time fighting in
sects than their more enterprising
neighbors did, and because they per-
sisted in keeping the garden in the
same old place: The same is true in
regard 60 weeds. Insects and weeds
can as often be fought by stratagem
as by direct charge. Plant the old
garden to corn or seed it down. Ma
nure it well, allow nature to restore
its diminished wealth, and in five or
six years the garden may resume its
old position. No doubt seeds raised
year after year from plants grown on
the same soil, lose much of their vir-
tue and strength. 1t is well known
that rotation should be practised in
the wheat field; why not in the gar
den?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18
MESQUITE, Trx., October %, 188s.

MESQUITE, Ten, October %, 1888.
Messrs. Morley Bros, Austin, Texas:
Gentlemen-I feel grateful to you for the
good Morley's Blackberry Balsam has done
complaint and teething. tried the best doc
tor in our town and everything could hear
of, but all in vain. 1 gave my baby up as
your Blackberry Balsam. The one bottle
cured it, and now it is as fat as a pig. ] can
cheerfully recommend Morley's blackberry
Bal m to all mothers, and am very gratefully
j. ID. BROW Err,
OF Messrs. Browder & Paschal.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

JUDGE RECTOR took the cake at
San Antonio, but he will never eat it
in the halls of congress.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18
Climbing The Spiral Stairs.
Invisible Architecture in a New
England Parsonage.

YES" she said, our children are married
and gone, and my husband and / sit before
ourWlnter fire much as we did before the lit
tie ones came to widen the circle. Life is
something like spiral staircase: we are all
the time coming around over the spot we
started from, only one degree further up the
STAIRS"
THAT is a pretty illustration remarked
her friend, musingly, gazing into the glowing
Goals which radiated pleasant heat from the
-windowed stove. "You know we cam
not stop teiling up the hill. thought
surely we cannot, and for myself / don't
find fault with that necessity provided the
advance in life is not attended with Calamity
or suffering for have had my share of thar.
Not loug since my health utterly broke down.
My system was full of malaria. My digestion
became thoroughly disordefed and my nerves
were in wretched state was languid. ate
little and that without enjoying it, aud had no
strength or ambition to perform even my light
household duties. Medical treatment failed to
reach the seat of the trouble. The disease
winch seemed to be weakness of all the vital
until / had several attacks
Wnlrh my physicians pronounced to be acute |
congestion OF the stomach. j he last OF these |
was desperate struggle and was given up 10 |
Ole. AS the crisis had partially passed my |
husband heard of the merits OF PAHKER'S
TONIC as an inVigOranti in just such cases as |
mine. took it and felt its good effects at |
once. 1t appeared to peryade my body, as !
though the blessi' g OF new life had come to
me. Taking no other medicine / continued to |
improve, and am now in better 1ealth than / /
have been for long time
EXTRACT from interview with the wife of |
Rev. P. Perry Pastor, Pastor of Baptis5 /
church COldbroOk. Mass.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

MELVILLE is crazy to go on an arctic
exploration, He is perfectly satisfied
he can make his way to the north pole
by way of Franz Josef land.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

CoPIoUs rains have fallen in all the
country west of the Pecos river and
it is said grass is superb and water
plenty.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

a statement, appearing elsewhere,
appears to fasten the responsibility for
the publication of the Cleveland
scandal on the republican nominee for
the presidency.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

Hon. RICHARD CROWLEY is spoken
of as Mr.. Folger's probable successor
In the state department.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

G. w. JONES presents his issues to
the public. His letter of announce
ment will be found in the telegraphic
columns.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

THE machinery that Icould be
moved by natural forces, at Austin,
would give employment to ten or fif-
teen thousand operatives.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18
THE STATESMAN.
AUSTIN. TEXAS.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION:
Important Notice

THE STATESMAN. will pay no bills con-
tracted by any employe of this Office except
upon order signed by The business manager.
Ne pay our men every Monday, in cash, and
merchants and others extending credit must
lot expect US to be responsible except under
conditions as above.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

MAJ. SAVERS has sure enough po-
litical thunder laid up behind the Ned
Robinson letter.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

WASH JONES does not wholly base
his declarations on truth; hence the
address is vicious.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

JONES manifesto is in the ma
ture of general political essay; it
is consequently weak.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

If Blame started the Cleveland
scandal he deserves defeat for that
alone.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

The Dallas Herald asserts that ''ev-
cry single democrat with state rep
utation was understood to favor the
ratification" of the lease of penitentia-
ries and convicts, as presented to the
last legislature; and still this lease
was abrogated. How would it do for
the people to drop democrats with
estate reputation" if what the Herald
states is true?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

THE Plumed Knight has become
the knight of the soiled plume.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

A PRIVATE company has been con-
tracted with to raise the steamer Tai
ispoosa and pull her to the Brooklyn
navy yard for the snug little sum Of
$4,000. There is some sense in the
matter, however secretary Chandler
wants his wines and LIQUORS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

Prof. Dow, an English authority,
says that boiled potatoes, mixed with
cut straw or hay, may be given to
horses of every kind, even when on
the hardest work; and this forms a
species OF food both wholesome and
economical.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18
THURSDAY, September IA, 1884.

THE wave that started in for Blaine
is receding.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

WHAT about $4,000 promised to
a Houston organ?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

Breed well, feed well, and then sell
well; there is profit in SO doing, there
is loss in the reverse.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

IT MAY be accepted as a fact that
China is in earnest in repelling French
occupation of Asiatic soil. Those Off
Gals who have advised against re-
sumptIon-Do. we mean war-have
had their services dispensed with, and
only those are employed who have their
heart in the cause of the government.
France is undoubtedly equally deter
mined to secure her eLds, but is less
anxious for war. A proposition tor
mediation satisfactory to the republic
would be readily accepted by France,
but it is doubtful whether China
would now listen to the voice of
reason. Unless the conflict be averted
in some way, the war that will follow
will be exceedingly bloody and cruel.
France is brave, skillful and warlike,
while China is well supplied with
the munitions uf war, and has mill
ions of men whom she holds ready
for sacrifice. Of the final issue, how
ever, there can be no doubt. Since
the time of the Saracens, in such con-
tests western civilization has never
failed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18
woop CITY. BAsrnor Co, TEX, I

WooD CITY. BAsTRoP Co., TEX,
April 1s, 1884.
Messrs. Morley Bros, Austin, Texas:
GENTLEMEN tried your BLACKBERRY
BAIsAM on two of my children that had the
Flux very bad, and it acted like charm; cur
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for having such valuable medicine on the
market. To all who are suffering from the
above complaint, can cheerfully recommend
MoRLEY's BLACKBERRY BALsAM.
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

How depressing it is 70 see acres Of trees cut
down in the midst Of q noble forest. How cad.
denning it is al 0 to see that thin spot in the
midst OF your other Use abundant hair. Sion
Il at ono by the u.s. Of Pa k-r's Hair b lsam.
For aetuai efficiency this famous article stands
az the head OF its class. Elegant for the tot
let. delicious In odor, and restores the orei
nal color to gray or faded hair. Economical.
as 9 slsght, occasional application keeps the,
hair and scalp in perfect.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

THE legitimate result of twenty
three years of protective tariff is seen
in the existing depressed condition of
all the protected industries of the
country, and in the present forcible
resistance of the miners in the Hook
ing Valley to still further reduction
&C laborers between protected and
non-protected industries, can be seen
by a comparison of the wages received
by a bricklayer, who is not protected,
but who gets four or five dollars a
day, and the iron maker in Peunsyl-
vania, who is protected, but who only
gets ninety-two cents day.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

In England as well as here the heat
has been intense of late. The latest
London newspapers report that it has
brought out autumn tints upon the
trees, and that many of the branches
are as bare as in December. But the
English are content to put up with
this because they are promised bet
ter crop than has been harvested in
ten years.