The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-31


but Fort Worth gas viii kill an Indian.
An exchange advocates the passage of a
law requiring all legal sales by constables,
sheriffs, commissioners, ETC., to be adver-
tised in newspapers. 1t would be mis-
take to look upon the newspapers as the
sole ard greatest benefciaries of such
law. Many a hard-pressed debtor has
seen his property shamefully sacrificed at
a sale by order of court, because the
matter was so poorly advertised that only
a handful of bidders were present. The
few notices which serve to satisfy the re-
quirements of the law are practically no
advertisement at all to the public. Few
people see them at all. and fewer still see
the.l who would be likely to attend the
sale, and as a result valuable property is
put up for sale before a small number
of buyers and knocked down to the high
est bidder at one-third or one-fourth its
value. Sometimes, as has been the case
with the sheriff Of this county, posters are
circulated, advertising the sale and secur-
ing better crowd, but this is not doing
full justice TO the debtor whose property
is sold. An established custom of adver-
Using every sale literally would protect
the debtors interests, and law is needed
to authorize and require it.
THE STATESMAN wishes that the indi-
vidual who expects to occupy a seat in
the next legislature from this district
would prepare bill embracing the above
points, and have it ready. In case he is
not elected he can turn it over to the one
who is. Do you hear, major?
DR.. Mary Walker has appeared at Wash
ington in high silk hat and masculine
ulster.-E Exchange.
DR.. Mary has right to wear "ulsters'
and breeches too, if she likes, and the pa
pers had better let her alone. If she gets
after them she will give them as good as
they send.-Houston Post.
You touch the Age in a tender place
when you say anything derogatory to
Doctor Mary. Beware!
In the last issue of the Galveston News
it strikes several blows at the Hon. Samuel
j. Randall, good democrat. We do not
remember that it strikes a single lick at
any radical.-Houston Age.
The News is too magnanimous-som
times-to hit man when he is down.
The following, from the Fort Worth
The superintendent of public schools at
Burnet suspended pupil because he re-
fused to study United States history.
The young mans father applied for a
writ of mandamus against the superin
tendent to show cause why his son should
be suspended. One judge refused, but
another granted the writ. State Superin-
tendent Baker indorses the action of the
lie school pupils must take the prescribed
course, and that if they refuse they are
barred the privileges of the public schools.
When the advancement and object of
the public school pupils are considered
when a large majority of them can attend
only short term, and that they are wo-
fully deficient in the most elementary and
practical branches, it does seem passing
strange that state superintendent would
hold that they shall take all the
couse or no part of it. The law
prescribes what branches are en-
braced in the public school course
what branches shall be taught free of
charge to the pupil--but it certainly does
not intend that pupils SHALL take all or
! only snch part of it as the teacher may
direct. There is many a Do up IN his
teens who should devote all 'of his pre-
cious tilae to spelling, penmanship, read
ing and arithmetic, just as the Burnett boy
wanted to do. He can get but little al
best, and that little ought to be thai
which he most needs. Ten to one he car
at home get more out of United States
history than his teacher can cram into
him according to his rut methods. The
pupil needs but little help in the study OF
history or geography; he needs much il
spelling and defining, in reading and
arithmetic. It is often the case that the
common sense of the parent and pupil is
better than the fine spun theories of tht
superintendent and teacher.
An enforced classification of public
schools would greatly lesson the labor OF
the teacher, but it is utterly impractical
and would work great injustice to the
very pupils who are by intendment the
special beneiciaries of the system.
The 'liquor dealers of Dallas Lave i:
sued 7x9, Vol. L, No. 1, and soliciting the
STATESMAN for an exchange! Those Dal
las people have got more cheek thar
poland-china swine.
The Austin STATESMAN grows more
worthy of the position it holds in Texas
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in the way of a frst-class newspaper tina
the people could desire.-Texas Star.
That is saying good deal, for people
are very exacting these days. The more
they have the more they seem to need.
A correspondent of the Auetin STATES
MAN goes for that paper for denouncing
lotteries in one column as swindle an(
carrying a lottery 'ad' in another. Tn
STATESMAN is not the only paper that ha
been guilty of the inconsistency.-Fo
Worth Mail.
The STATESMAN would like to see tina
inconsistency made apparent.
The Galveston News not only endorse
the STATEsMAN's reply to General DeBra,
on the lottery question, but says TIL
STATEsnTAN's policy is that of the leading
papers generally, and then adds: "It j
only when paper prints advertisement
in the shape of editorials that it makes it
self morally responsible for what the
contain
The people of Austin. are at last thor