The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-10

when such as the following come to the
surface;
Comparisons are odorous but we make
one for the good people who read the
daily newspapers, between the Sunday
editions of the Dallas News and the Fort
Worth Gazette:
News. GAZETTE.
90 ...... Columns reading. Inc. 81
So Columns telegraph 49,. :. Is
lo3s.. .Columns advertising. ..........3o
No wonder "Belo'' is said to have sshis
eye on the Gazette"
Can't Mr.. Harrison do something or
say something to offend the News?
Yesterday Mr.. S. L. Sladen a promi-
nent and leading business man of our
city, came to the Examiner Office to in
quire if we had a copy of the Austin
STATESMAN. We handed him a copy of
that paper of Saturday last. He sat for
some fifteen minutes closely scanning it,
and finally laid it quietly on the table and
rose to leave. We said to him, What is
it you want to fnd?" Said he, II am
interested in a piece of land in this
county owned by man in California, who
has placed the matter in the hands of an
Austin lawyer, and 1 have been looking
to write and have competent legal man
make an offer for the place." We gave
him the name of a prominent law firm;
but it occurs to US that lawyers, as we'll as
doctors, lose far more in this way than
they are aware OF. by refusing to publish
their business cards. No one can tell from
what source business comes, and the pub
llcatlOn of single law card in the STATES
MAN would have secured a stroke of bust
ness for lawyer; the simple commissions
on the money in the transaction would
probably amount to five hundred dollars.
Now, here is a suggestion and lesson
learn the one and act upon the other.
There is good philosophy in it.
The STATESMAN has for a long time
been telling the Austin lawyers and others
that if they wanted to extend their
business they had better let it be more
generally known. Some few have needed
its advice, but many yet travel in the same
old channel.
The STATESMAN was the first to say in
this state that prohibition would never be
enforced inAtlanta, and every day seems
to confirm it's convictions. This has now
become the general belief as expressed in
our exchanges.
The Statesman is little beauty, sure
enough.-HoustonP Post.
Well, now really, Mr.. Post, you don't
mean it, do you? You are just too fun
ny for anything.
The Austin STATESMAN appears in very
neat new dress, cut after the most ap-
proved modern stple-full up to the fash
ion. But the dress is not all. It's edito-
rails are good and its columns newsy.-
Baptist Herald.
A prophet sometimes has honor even in
his own country. We appreciate this COM
pliment, for it comes from the heart and
goes before not less than twenty thousand
readers.
kins should be elected governor the state
will be carried by big majority. Fort
Worth Mail.
What does the Times mean by that?
Does it mean to say that if nominated he
will be elected by a big majority? If so,
what other democratic nominee would not
be?
Austin boasts of the number of fine pri-
vate residences that have been built within
her corporate limits the present year.
| Each should have burglar-proof vault
| for servant girls.-Fort Worth Mail
Until emigration from Fort Worth in
this direction sets in more than it has of
late, such vaults will not be needed.
1t requires concentrated thought to
write ''pithy paragraph" boiling down,
no dilution.-Mail.
You mean concentrated I've, don't you?
The two ends are waging vigorous
war for more water. The Dallas end wants
it fresh, and the Galveston end salt and
deep.-Mail.
The Galveston end is a fresh-salt water
paper, and the Dallas end salt water
fresh paper.
Old Charley Hanson, of the Joshua Sig
nal, exclaimed when the new eight-page
STATESMAN was shown him: 'Lord, let
now thy servant depart in peace" Moth
ing higher in the art preservative of arts
seems possible of attainment Laredo
Times.
That has been the prayer all along the
line: Time!
Austin has a colored minister named
Whangdoodle Jonsing. Times.
You mean did have. He belonged to
the Siftings' staff and left when his paper
did.
The News wants to know, before the
meeting of the next legislature, whether
there are enough Austin cooks left to pre-
pare meals for the legislators. A timely
ggestion.-Laredo Times.
If the average Texas legislator is no
more particular about his meals while
here than he is at home, he will find plen-
ty who can do his cooking.
The Austin STATESMAN has accomplish
ed the long promised Transformation, and
comes to us this week dressed with so
much style that even the handsome News
and Gazette suffer little by comparison.
San Angelo Standard.
THE STATESMAN would not willingly