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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
1EMPLETON TO GRICE,
The Attorney-Gen Writes to the
Editor Of the RNnresa.

The Acknowledgement Writes to the
Editor Of the RXpress:
The following letter, addressed yes
terday by the Attorney-General. to
the editor of the San Antonio Ex-
press; explains itself. 1t will be read
with interest by sporting men:
The Acknowledgement has to-day
addressed letter to the editor of the
San Antonio Express, stating that
his opinion to County Judge Wurz-
bach, of Bexar County, has been
wholly misunderstood and misreprel
sented; that he did not advise that
Imprisonment in the county jail can
be worked out on the. usual hire sys-
TEN, now in existence" but the exact
contrary, viz: that the county convict
must remain in Jail for the full term
of his Imprisonment before he can be
hired cut for the satisfac-
ton of his fine and costs.
Unless the county has work-house
for convicts, in which event the con.
vict should be placed in the chain
gang for the full term Of his imprison-
ment, unless he sees proper to pay into
TIE treasury, for the privilege of re-
naming in Jail without labor, one
dollar for each day of his imprison-
ment, after which he may be hired
out for the satisfaction of his fine and
costs.
(Signed.) JNo. D. TEMPLEToN,
Acknowledgement
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
The Religion we Want.

We want religion that bears heav-
lily, not only on the 'e1 ceedlng sinful
ness of sim" but on the exceeding
rascality of lying and sJealing-a rel1-
gion that banisheS small measures
from counters, clay from paper, and
from sugar, chicory from coffee, alum
from bread, and water from the milk
cans. The religion that is to save the
world will not put all the big straw
berries on the top and all the little
ones at the bottom. II will not make
one-half pair of shoes Of good leather
ard the other half of poor leather.
1t will not let a piece OF velvet that
processes to mesure twelve yards come
to and untimely end in the tenth, or a
spool OF sewing-sll that yourhes for
twenty yards be nipped in thu bud
at fourteen and half; net all-wool
delaines and all-linen han1kprchiefs
be analgamated with clandesiine cot
ton. It does not put bricks at five
dollars per thousand into chimneys it
contracts to build of seven-dollars
material; nor smuggle white pine into
floors that have paid for hard pine;
nor leave lawning cracks III closets
where boards ought to join; nor dauD
Inc CEILINGS budI Ou9Ho W UO oihOOonty
plastered; nor make window-bllnds
with Stats that can not stand the wind,
and paint that can not stand the sun,
and fastenings that may be looked at,
but on no account to be touched. The
religion that is going to sanctify the
world pays its debts. 1t does not
consider that forty cents returned fol
zone hundred cents given is according
to the gospel, though it may be accord
ng to law.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30

Chill off all her drink for forty-eight
hours after ealving. If the weather
Is hot, keep her in the shade in the
heat Of the day, and she will not be
likely to have any trouble. But if
you are Caught with a case of milk
fever, don't try to physic her, but
empty the rectum and give an injec=
ton of half an ounce of laudanum
diluted with thin starch, and keep
giving the laudanum often enough to
keep her easy, and in four or five days
her bowels will move. When you
wish to leave her for the night give
an extra amount CT laudanum. AS
she begins to ge5 better she will
look brighter and drink a little, and
will not need as much laudanum.
BY the second or third day she will
almost surely need catheter to empty
her bladder If there is no catheter
near, small rubber tube will answer.
Your family physician can tell you
how. to use it if Necessary. A little
weak saltpeter water for diuretic is
useful. Cows six years old and over
are more likely to have milk fever;
have never known a case with a
cow less than five years old. Good
COWS that give much milk and are
extra well fed are the ones that have
it. A great many Jersey COWS have
died in that way.
Neither is especially a milking
breed, and all of them will give salts
faction as beef producers. The Short
Horn and Hereford will probably give
equal satisfaction under the most
favorable circumstances, and the
Hereford the best satisfaction under
circumstances that would be consid-
cred unfavorable.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
A MODERN MIRACLE.
Prayer Cures a Young Lady Who Had
Been Paralyzed by a Fall.

9 Il Edyer cures q 1OuUS Aduy "AO AAoN
Been Paralyzed by Fail.
Exchange
A revival that is the result of what
people there claim to be a modern
miracle, is in progress at Salem, q
country church few miles from
this place. Several years ago, Miss
Irons, a belle of the neighborhood.
vas thrown from a buggy, and SO
seriouoly injured that eventually, she
became paralyzed from her waist
down. Everything possible was
done, but without aVil. Last Thurs
day she announced her intention to
pray for cure, and asking all her
friends but her mother, to remain
away from the room until she called,
She began her supplications, and con-
tinued them for several hours. Sud
denly she sat upright in bed, scream
ing with pain. This was followed by
a period of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Re
storatives were applied. and soon, to
the establishment of all, the invalid
arose, and; though very weak; walked
several times across the room. The
night following she attended reYi-
val meeting at the Salem Church and
related her experience. II. aroused
whirlwind of religious feeling and
the whole neighborhood seems turn
ing into Christians. There can be no
doubt of the genuineness of the cure.
The question is, how it was accom-
plished. No physician or stranger
was near, and no medicine had been
taken. Miss Irons asserts that she
was cured by faith. She will become
an evangelist.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
Gas.pipes Made From Paper.

A novel use for paper has been
found in the manufacture of
gas-pipes. 1t is constructed as fol-
lows: An endless strip of hemp pa
per, one width of which equals the
length of the tube, Is passed through
a bed of melted asphalt, and then roll
ed tightly and smoothly on core. to
give the required diameter. When
the number of layers thus rolled, is
sufficient to afford the desired thick
ness, the tube is strongly compressed;
the outside sprinkled with fine sand,
and the whole cooled in water. When
cold, the core is drawn out, and the
inside served with water proofDg
composition. In addition to being alb
solutely tight and smooth, and much
cheaper than iron, these pipes have
great strength; for when the sides are
scarcely three-ifths of an inch thick,
they will withstand pressure of
more than fifteen atmospheres. If
buried underground, they will not be
broken by settlement, nor when vio-
lently shaken or Jared. The ma
terial being a bad conductor of heat
the pipes do not readily freeze.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30

not education particularly; it is the
vicious way in which it is acquired
and it is plain that all the causes
have enumerated, may be removed by
an intelligent school board and
thoughtful teachers. One of the most
pernicious practices in some public
schools, and one calculated to devel-
ope more eye dieaSe than an army OF
ocullsts can control, is that of reQulr-
ing such vast amount of writing OF
lessons by little ones. Writing in
poor light is worse than reading, be-
cause the paper must lie upon the
desk, which does not slope enough,
thus causing STOPPING and bringing
the eyes to near it. The light falls
upon it obliquely, and is reflected up
on it in such way that much Of the
illumination is lost. Every letter
must be looked at as written, which
is not the case in reading. The right
side is turned toward the desk, and
the paper is placed obliquely, which
causes the tipping OF the head to the
left and a difference in the distance
of the two eyes from the point of the
pen. AS result, many children have
a different focus in each eye; one eye
is used for reading and the other
turns outward; one shoulder becomes
higher than the other, the spine gets
twisted and curved, the chest is de-
Veloped on one side and is contracted
on the other, and other evils beside
eye affections arise. Myopia is the
most common disorder induced by
close eye work, but very many other
diseases are brought on by it, and any
,congenital defect, such as far sight
and irregular curvature of the cornea
and lens, is made apparent and re-
quires correction before the eyes can
be abused, as they are abused in our
public schools. You know now why
so many children wear glasses, and
why so wany general practitioners
are putting out signs as oculists, but l
must tell you that / rarely order
glasses for little folks, because, in
many cases these tend to develope the
very disease they are expected to
cure. It is a thousand times better
to relieve the eye strain by rest and
little medicine than to mount pair
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
classification Of STATES.

Kentucky used to be classed as
Southern state. A classification I'M
der the head of the mississippi
States" said to be adopted in some
modern school Biographies, is not gen
orally accepted. 1t is a curious ar
rangement at this late day, which
classes New York, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey among the Middle
States" and Ohio, Indiana and Illi-
nois as "the West" The grouping
proposed by the Census Office is into
the North Atlantic, South Atlantic,
Northern Central, Southern Central
and Western States. Under this sys-
tenn, Kentucky is among the South
ern Central States. By this arrange
ment the Western States begin about
the 194th degree of west longitude,
Colorado being the easternmost OF
the Western States. The line of the
Allegheny or Appalachian Mountains
| is the general divide between the
South Atlantic and the Southern Cen
| trail States. The Southern boundary
eff Pennsylvania divides the North
| Atlantic from the South Atlanflt
States, and its Western boantsl I
the line between North y Lar &c
Southern Central.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
Relics Of Antietam.

Cornelious Smith of Pleasant Valley,
near Cumberland, Md, has contract
for saving into lumber large num-
per of logs cut from trees standing on
the field of Antietam at the time of
the battle. He says all sorts of mis-
siles, from cannon balls to buckshot,
are almost daily met with in the tim
Der, and that it is really dangerous to
stand near the saws in his mill when
such lumber is being cut, number
of saws have been snapped into frag-
ments, when running at a high rate
of speed, by striking iron shot imbed-
ded in the logs. A large, angular
fragment of shell was struck by a
saw few days ago, and a perfect
shower of sparks rained about the
mill from the contacts of the metals,
the saw being finally snapped in sew
eral places. In another instant, a
grapeshot was cut through by saw,
leaving bright, polished surface on
each hemisphere Of the missile. Many
Ieaden bullets. which offer little or no
resistance to the saws are revealed in
boards and planks.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
Degenerate Sons of Statesmen.

washington Letter to thu Philadelphia Times.
Any che who attends the Presf-
dents receptions is struck by the ply
steal contrast between the prominent
statesmen OF the day and their hope
full sons, 1t is well known that
all the United States Senators, with
three exceptions, and nearly all the
able men in the House of Representa-
tives are above the average height
and OF very ample proportions. They
are self-made men and required all
the vitality of their large frames to
raise themselves in the world. They
are an honor to the White House and
lend dignity to it's receptions. But
wat a pltiful lot are their Wretched
little dudes of sons, with their spind-
ling legs and dwarfed frames, sunken
chests and colorless faces--ambltion-
less, dissipated, worthless, without
even manly vice. There are some
marked exceptions, but the average
society young man, as seen in the
White House, is anything but an OBJ
ject OF admiration. 1t is common
sight to see a handsome, stately girl
with one of these little objects trot-
ing across the room by her side, scarce
ly reaching to her shoulders. That
women don't admire the puny things
is proved by the rarity of marriage in
Washington society, except in
army and navy circles, where the
young men are more manly in form
and character.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
Sorghum.

Taking One season with another
this is safer crop than corn or pota-
toes, and requires about the same
care. Never plant till the ground is
thoroughly warmed. Its early
growth is slow at best, and If the
tender stand gets chilled, it will hardly
recover during the whole season.
What it wants is quick germina-
ton and rapid, steady growth. with
no set-backs. Make shallow markings
three and half feet apart in well
pulverized soil, and by even sowing
IN the drill four pounds of seed will
plant and acre. Cover lightly. Keep
the ground level. Harrow as soon
as the weeds start, twice if necessary,
and cultivate thoroughly while the
plant is small and tender. 1t is Of
prime Importance to keep the ground
loose and the weed growth subdued
while the cane Is young. If this can
not be done with the ordinary farm
force, hire extra men. With the cane
once fairly started in clear field,
the weeds will have no future-Jhe
growing crop will smother them
Amber cane seed, sown broadcast
and borrowed and drilled in on moder
atty rich soil, will give an abundan
yield of green fodder for late summe
and early fall.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

Good sheep require good care to
maintain their excellence, or they will
soon deteriorate.
The shugar beet is excellent for
sheep, being palatable and containing
much solid nutritious volume.
Good corn fodder is an excellent
sheep feed. 1t is looseniug, cooling
and relieves constipation.
Kindness and gentleness with you
COWS ar things that are realty con-
ducive to liberal flow of milk.
The italian Government is encour-
aging the growth of American vines
in that country, as being proof against
phylloxera.
John Splan, noted horseman, says
quart of oatmeal in pail of water
will freshen horse after hard driving
and prepare his stomach for more
solid food.
It has been proven by actual ex-
pertinent. that beets or turntpS can
be raised, lifted and stored for six
cents per bushel. At this cost they
certainly are a profitable TODD for
sheep.
Some cows teats are so small that
the grasping process is thoroughly
impractical, says writer. We advise
the milking with a wet teat, as your
can milk more easily, and it is certain
ly more in harmony with nature.
Horses may be taught to canter
slowly and gracefully BY riding them
under the saddle for long distances
up hill. The caLter is a gait not so
much desired since horseback riding
has gone into disuse, but there are
many indications that the healthful
exercise given by riding on horseback
is to become more popular, as it GER
tainly should.
On August % and 20, 1886, will oc :
cur total eclipse Of the sun, the
maximum duration of which will be
six minutes. The moons shadow
will pass near or through the Wind
ward Islands, on the n orthern coast
of South America. 1t will then
sweep across the Atlantic and touch
no land until it reaches Benguela, on
he.AfTican coast.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
rheumatism and Diet.
AC tAAAN
IacSa1;S MAGAZINE


rheumatism is, as often :Ss not
caused by over-eating, and especially
over-indulgence in meat, which Is
certain to cause an excess of uric
acid, and render the body liable on
exposure to wet or cold, to an attack.
We know that oil people are proven
bially liable to rheumatism. The rea-
SONS for this are not far to seek. One
is that joints and ligaments are hard
er and sitter, and very often contain
a depos1t-urate of soda. Another is,
that as rule, people up in years eat
more than is necessary to suppori life,
under the mistaken notion that they
want a deal Of nourishment to keep
them up. / say, that on the contrary,
the wear and tear of tissue is trifing
compared to what 1t is in earlier man
hood, and that far less food is requ1r-
ed. Therefore, if an elderly person
would live long, and be free of aches
and pains, and be calm in mind-he
or she must live abstemiously, more
Or less.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
CEMETERY EXTENSION.
Shall the Burying Ground be Public oil
Private Enterprise?

Shall the Burying Ground be Public or
Private Enterprise?
Several months since THE STATES
MAN noticed editoTially the proposed
extension of the City Cemetery and
the City Council, as we thought, very
properly refused to consider the prop
osition to purchase additional land
adjoining the old cemetery grounds.
The reasons were given why such
extension should not be made, and to
Council the objection urged appeared
to be satisfactory.
1t appears that committee of the
council and of citizens, to act in con-
junction with them, was appointed
by the Mayor to select site for a
cemetery. This committee, it ap-
pears, has failed to select and recon-
mend any ground for new cemetery,
and now, it is understood, will recon-
mend the purchase of the twenty acres
lying Immediately south of the GEM
eJery.
understand that charter has
been prepared for the incorporation
of a Cemetery Association, but the
originators of the project have not
taken any definite action, until the
city has decided whether or not it will
purchase grounds and establish
cemetery on scale commensurate
with the wants of the city, not only
for the present, but for the future.
Ii the city declines to take any action
in the matter, the proposed private
corporation will, but they have
been withheld from filing
charter and going to work
so long as the cause of the city was
undecided. 1t would not be advisable
nor would it pay as an investment to
attempt to establish two cemeteries.
1t is proposed in the purchase of GEM
etery grounds by private corpora
ton to sell to the city at $50 per acre,
ten or more acres out of the cemetery
tract, for the city to bury the INDECENT
and friendless poor; this to be en-
closed and become part of the incor-
porated cemetery. There will be no
difficulty about the incorporation and
immediate establishment of a ceme-
terry association it the city will agree
not to purchase other cemetery
ground. So far as the removal of the
present cemetery is concerned, it is
not contemplated; there is no neces-
sity for it. 1t cannot be disturbed.
But there is necessity and an urgent
one for the immediate organization of
a cemetery association, the purcha.e
Of ground ample in space, and at such
distance from the city where it will
remain undisturbed for time to come.
There are very many citizens who
would purchase lots and improve
them in new cemetery two or three
miles the from city. They would know
1t would bepermanent and would will
ingly incur expenses in ornamenting
the grounds. Persons who do not
own lots in the present cemetery,
many have their friends and relations
buried there temporarily and only
await the establishment of another
burying ground to remove the re-
mains. There would be no difficulty
in disposing Of the grounds of new
cemetery and making it in the course
of time beautiful place of resort and
thu pride of our citizens.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
TATEDEPARrMENTs.
The Teachers Will have to Wait
Treasury ReseiDts. etc.

treasury ReCeIpGSi etc.
But little of interest transpired in
government circles yesterday owing
to to the non arrivals of the mails.
1t is reported from the comptroller's
office that the teachers of the public
schools are likely to wait several
months for their salaries earned dur
ing the last quarter Of the scholastic
year. This arises from the action
of the late legislature in granting an
extention of time in the payment of
interest on school land notes, from
March l to August 1, 1885. These
payments will aggregate about $780,
600. The extension of time for forced
collection of ad valorem taxes will
tend to further increase the financial
shortage, and thus cause additional
embarrassment. The Legislature was
advised as to the inexpediency
of postponing interest payments
but acted directly contrary
thus making donation OF the inter-
est on half million y ,o,I ITS for q
period of five months. This will likely
have to come out of the pockets of
teachers in the way of discounted
vouchers, the result of an act at once
ill-advised and possibly .unconstltu-
tional.
The Treasurer is busy cutting cou-
pons on bonds belonging to the school
fund. About $4,000 was paid into
the treasury to the credit of different
funds.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
MIX Feyerin Cows.

1 wish to repeat the way to prevent
and cure milk fever in cows. says a
correspondent to the New York Tri-
bune. The way to prevent is to feed
about two-thirds rations of fodder
and half rations of whatever mess
they have been eating for few days
before they come in, and for two or
three days after calving feed sparingly
with fodder; give no mess at all for
the first day or two after except halt
dozen potatoes or carrots, and take The
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
CURE FOR PILES.

Piles are frequently preceded by a
sense of weight in the back, loins and
lower part of the abdomen, causing
the patient to suppose he has some
ELECTION of the kidneys or neighboring
organs. AT times, symptoms of indi-
gestion are present, fatulency, uneasi-
ness of tho stomach, etc. a moisture,
like Precipitation, producing a very dis,
agreeable itching, after getting warm
is common attendant. Blind, isleed.
ing and Itchir & Piles yield at once to
the application of DIR. Bosanko's Pile
Remedy, which acts directly upon the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30

The cities of Georgia seem to be in
al thriving condition. In Atlanta
there are 100000 worth of new
buildings in the hands of contractors,
besides the new capitol, which was
started last spring; in Macon, con-
tracts for over $4,000 worth of new
buildings have been closed out; Co.
lumbus, also, has 100000 worth OF
residences erected since last summer
and about 100000 worth of work en-
gagged for the coming season. In Sa.
vannah, 81. Co., COO have been expend.
ed during the past year for improve
mentS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
: Gone to Benefit the Heathen,

Husband-I do wish you would
sew a button on my coat. At church
yesterday was very much annoyed.
When a man can't appear tidy at
church he had better give up going.
If cleanliness is next to godliness,
tidiness ought certainly to follow
close behind. There is certain amount
of respect due religious matters.
Wife-There, there. I would have
sewed button on your coat last night
if I had had one to match.
Observation-Disclosures told you there
was a button in some of the inside
pockets.
Wife-1 know you did, but you af.
forwards dropped it into the contribu-
| tion box.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
Near-sishted children.

"Myopia, or near sight," says a
Pittsburg physician, SIS caused by
poor light, the improper direction of
it. stopping or dropping the head,
holding the eyes too near the object
and using them too continuously up
on print. writing, etc. 1 could pile
up statistics to prove that education
is the cause of miopia. but every WELL
informed layman knows it. But it Is