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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-10-28
THE FRONT BRAKEMAN.


Next comes the front brakeman in plug
hat about two sizes too large for him. lie
also wears long-waisted frock coat with
hustle to it and a tail shirt collar with
table-spread tie, the ends of which flutter
gayly III the morning breeze, As the train
pauses at the first station he takes hammer
out of the tool box and nails on the tire of
the fore wheel of his coach. The engineer
gets down with long oil can and puts lit
tie sewing machine oil on the pitman He
then wipes it off with his sleeve.
1t is now discovered that the rear coach
containing a number of directors and the
division superintendent, is missing. The con-
ductor goes to the rear of the last coach, and
finds that the string by which the directors
car was attached is broken, and that, the
grade being pretty steep, the directors and
one brakeman have no doubt gone back to
the starting place.
But the conductar is cool He removes his
bell-crowned plug hat, and taking out his
orders a.el time card, he finds that the track
is clear, and, looking at a large, valuable
| Waterbury watch, presented TO him by q
widow whose husband was run over and
killed by the train, he sees BE can still make
the next station in time for dinner. He hires
a livery team to go back after the directors
coach, and calling "All aboard" he swings
lightly upon the moving train.
NINETEEN WEARY MILES.
1t is now 10 o'clock, and nineteen weary
miles still stretch out between him and the
dinner station. To add to the horrors of the
situation. the front brakeman discovers thai
a very thirsty boy in the emigrant car ha
been drinking from the water supply tank OF
the tender, and there's not enough water lief
to carry the train through. Much time i
consumed i'll filling the barrel again at
spring near the track, but the conducto
finds a "spotter" on the train and gets him t.
do it. He also induces him to cut some NOR
wood and clean out the ashes.
The engineer then pulls out a draw hea
and begins to make up time. In twenty mir
utes he has made up nm hours time thong
two miles of hoop-iron are torn from tn
track behind him. He sails into the eatin
station on time, and, while the master me
chanic takes several of the coach wheels owe
to the machine shop to soak, he eats a hur
ried lunch.
The brakeman here gets his tin lantern
ready for the night run and fills two of ther
with red oil to be used on the rear coach. TIL
fireman puts a fresh bacon rind on the eccer
trio, stuffs some more cotton batting aroun
the axes, puts a new lynch-pin in the hin
wheels, sweeps the apple peelings out of th
smoking car, and he is ready
Then comes the conductor, with his plu
hat full of excursion tickets orders, passes
and time checks; he looks at his Waterbur
watch, waves his hand, and calls "a
aboard" again. 1t is upgrade, however, an
for two miles the "spotter" has to push benin
with all his might before the conductor wi
r allow him to get ON and ride.
e Thus began the history of a gigantic Ell
: terprise, which has grown till it is a comfor
> a convenience, a luxury, and yet necessit.
Bill Nye in Chicago News.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-05

Aunt Gresham nave blinded herself, or
had she deliberately tried to keep MiTi-
am and Roger apart? Miriam felt a
cold diStrust of her UnCle's wife.
But not of Lucy.
Roger must not guess Lucy's mis-
take.
He was putting ont his hand to Miri-
am now.
Il thought it was Darlington. per-
hapS, who was standing between us"
he said. But met him in town; he
almost said You had refused him too.
Miriam. if you do not like him, is there
no hOpe-nOne. that | might teach you
TO care for me just little?"
She shook her head.
You could never teach me that"
And then. us she lifted her eyes, and
saw the white set look upon his face, o
quivering smile flashed over hers.
You never could teach me that, be
cause | love you with my whole heart,
Roger"
He had both her hands.
Miriam, my darling"
But when he asked her what made
her refuse him just three weeks ago,
she only shook her head,
You know the hOmely prOverb. Ro-
ger: Never look a gift-horse in the
mouth. If | give You my love now,
you must not try to find out just how
old it is"
MY darling, you shall date it from
the wedding day. if you will let that be
quite soon"
We'll have a double wedding!" she
cried gayly. Lucy and her faithful
Tom shall be married on that day. |
think that you and together will be
able to bring Aunt Gresham to con-
sent"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-05
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET
FO~ Governor,
A. NJ. COCHRAN,
Of Dallas.
For Lieutenant Governor
LOCK NJ DANIEL.
OF Grimes County.
Fer associate Justice the supreme Court,
". u. BURKHART,
OF Fort Bend.
For Comptroller,
FRANK CLEANE~.
Of Cook County.
Fur Commissioner of the Land Office,
A. ZADECk.
az Navarro County
For Attorney. General
& NJ JOHNSON,
OF Young County
For Superintendent Of Public Instruction,
HENRY & CLINE,
OF Harris County.
Chairman of the State Executive Committee,
JOHN u. RECTOR.
OF Travis County.
Member of National Executive Committee,
WRIGHT Quincy,
OF Galveston.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-05

A physician who is known uptown
as the attendant upon some well-knOwn
families was presented some time ago by
an English manufacturer with a piece
of cloth for Il pair of trousers. He took
the cloth to his tailor and ordered it
made up. When the pantalOOns were
sent to him bill came with them for
$50. He dropped in to pay the bill,
and, with a smile that seemed based on
the welI-groumded belief that his tailor
had Numbered. he pointed out the fig
ures and suggested that somebody had
made mistake. The tailor looked the
bill over and said he guessed not; the
bill was all right. Trousers of that sort
were worth $50. But | furnished the
cloth" persisted the doctor. 20, the
cloth. That is matter of small con-
sequence" said the tailor. We never
charge for the cloth. Our fit and our
reputation are what make pantaloons
cost in this establishment."-Ne,0 York
Times.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-05

box Of pills. Find out
about them, and you
will always be thank
ful. One pill a dose.
Parsons Pills contain
nothing harmful, are
easy to take, and
cause no inconven-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-05

C. STADIcER, Proprietor,
10 so. FRONT ST.. Philadelphia. "a.
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DrS. WsatherS & Hays,

Drs. Weathers & Hays,
Practitioners OF the progressive medi-
cine and surgery. Special attention to
di-eases OF women and children. States
at Nettte's drugstore. Private office 273
Commerce St. Office hours 10 to IL a.
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-05
The Daily Eight.
tuesday,. OCTOBER 5 1886.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.

- ARRIVALS.
From Il. Louis. Missouri Pacific. 1000 Ppm
From St Louis, via Iron Mountain lO:JO pm
From ST. Louis, via Missouri Pacific. .l:uO H. IN
From Laredo ........ ..... 3:l5 p. IN
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17
MUSCLE SHOALS.

The present condition OF work on the
Shoals is thus given by the Chattanooga
Times: M
"Mr. VIM. Slagton, who has charge OF
the masonry work on the Muscle Shoals
canal has returned to the city and, will
remain here until the River and Harbor
bill passes. Mr.. Robt. Hooke, the
chief engineer and others, now engaged
on the work, will arrive in few days,
and work at the Shoals will be suspend
ed until the bill passes.
Mr.. Slagton says the proposed appro-
priation of $35O,OOO will complete the
canal and put it in working order. He
saws the entire work can be finished In
six months steady work, if the river is
low enough. Usually there are only
four months of extreme low water, but
the high tide and unusual rainfall this
spring justifies the prediction that the
season Of low tide may be six months
this year. If this occurs, the work will
be finished within twelve months
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17
THE NEGROS' FUTURE.
As Seen by Senator Logan.

Senator Logan WIS among the
speakers at the dedication of the
Metropolitan A. NJ. E church att
Washington March l. In the course
Of his able and lenthy speech he
referred in praiseworthy terms to the
rapid progress of tie colored people
in the last twenty-five years. The
following is an extract from the
address, in which he gives some wise
advice. as well as hopeful and en-
courageing view OF the future;
eff there is any one thing that will
clog the wheels of yonr material
progress it il the fact that some of
you try to over reach yoursels es.
Do not become ''drzzled by the splen-
dor and magni6cence of those who
had thousands ofyears in which to
make this world what il is to-day
No man is success who has not a
fixed object as .ign post-an aim
in life. to attain unto. A man should
get that kind and that amount of ed
ucation that will best fit him for the
performance and the attainment of
biz object in life. Too much Greek
will do you no good; what does a
man want with greek around a
table with a white apron on? | do
not say that you should not study
Greek if you intended to fill a chair
in some institution of lesrning;I do
not say that you should not read
medicine if YOU desire to become a
physician, or law if you wish to fol-
low that procession. But tell you
our white people are fast growing
ind lent and lazy. If you watch
charges and take timely ad, antage
of the opportunities offered you, your
race will be the wage workers, the
skilled artisans and eventually the
land owners and the wealthy class
Of this country. | advise you to
learn trades. learn to become me
chanlcs. You have the ability and
capacity to reach the richest point
and even 60 further in the march of
progress than has yet been mad
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17
Duty Of Madison County Re
publicanS,

Now that the Democracy has nom.
mated its ticket and opened the can
vass for the August election, the
question just now uppermost in po-
lltical circles is what will the Repub-
licans or the opposition do?
On the Republican side no rival
candidates for any of the positions
have put forward their claims, or had
their friends do 1t tor them. While
the Democratic waters have been
troubled with the earnest and heated
struggle for the nominations among
the many candidates, the surface OF
the Republican Waters remain clear
and calm.
Now that the Democrats have made
their choice and come before the pee
pie asking their endorsement, Re
publicans must understand that il
they do anything they Uust profit
by experience, and must meet the en-
smy with united front, allowing ne
action which will cause dissalisfac.
Gion Or division in the ranks.
What is done must be done open
ly and boldly and with q view to the
welfare Of the public affairs. and moi
for personal ends or ambitions.
The Republican party of this conn.
ty Can not afford anylonger to frittel
Its strength away in the support o.
any star chamber tickets The peo
pie have no confidence in such tick
sts so made and thrust under thei
noses for their support.
i No cause represented by sucl
moves seems now days to be able
to get the popular heart. The peo
pie want to have pa, in the making
# tickets or platforms which the.
re called upon to support.
| When they thus meet before til
public and as free citizens dellberat
and choose candidates for public po
sitions of trust, whom they know an,
have confidence in their ability t
wisely and faithfully administer th
trusts Of Office, thea they rally to tn
uppolt of such ticket with earnes
effort and heart.
| Madison county is Republican
county, and may be depended upol
to elect Republican candidates if til
confidence Of Republican voters is Sc
cured.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17


by any people. I predict that the
time will me and it is not far off
when we will have Negro poe t'from
the South. He will set the magni-
ficent splendor of the Sunny South"
to music. His muse will touch the
Tyre and you will hear the sweet
murmur OF the stream, the ripping
waters. AMI we shall see the beauty
of that country as it WAS never seen
before. 1t will come: and after him
other still greater men, But it takes
labor to become great man just as
it takes centuries to make great
nation. Great men are not fashion
ed in Heaven and thrown from the
hand of the Almighty to become po-
tentates here on earth. Nor are
they born rich. admit there is, in
some parts OF this country, pre]u-
dice against you on account of your
color aud former condition. In MY
my opinion the best way to break
this p is to show your capablity f
|, doing every thing that a white man
|<ioes, and do it Just as good and
better than he does If white man
scorns you. show him that you too
high-bread, to noble hearted to take
notice of it, and the 6rst opportunity
you have do him a favor, and l war
rant you he will feel ashamed of
himself and never will he make an
exhibition Of his pr. juaice again.
The future is yours and you have
it 10 you to rise to the heights Or
descend to the depths
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17
WHY WE FAIL.
rom the New York Freeman.

rom the new lOrk freeman.
In your issue of April 3, under
caption Business Outlook" a Mr.
jenkins attempts to tell, from bus
mess standpoint. the cause of the
failure of colored men. One would
possibly be led, after reading his ar
ticle, to believe that all the coIored
purchaser has to do, is to enter the
various business places kept by the
race, purchase, pay and leave; and
that, the failure on his part to do so,
is the chief cause why colored men
fail in business pursuits. Permit
me to contradict this.
Ia the first place, when our grocers,
merchants, doctors, lawyers, etc
rush into business, their chief object
il money; and, they expect to make
all and loose none. In order to ac
complish this. they tax their patrons
twice the amount for an article their
white neighbor does, and think un-
less they do. their houses are not
first Glass; second, they cannot be
approached with the prices their
white brother charges, without in
sulting customer; third, they retire
to early, have too many friends
come to see them during business
hours, sleep too late, move too slow
take too much interest in political at
fairs, make too much noise. and keep
things too long on hand. The busi-
ness pursuits of colored men in this
city. of which "hotelh' stand fore
most, are, on whole, failures; and
no one who has had dealings with
them. will deny this. Why is this
you ask. 1t is not because colored
people do not patronizs them, moi
because that patronage lis from
those who would seek to destroy
rather than help their business on;
but because their prices are too high,
together with the other facts herein
set forth. The colored man in bust
ness will not let you patronizs him.
The success of the colored busines.
man depends entirely upon how /
dire cts his efforts. If the Irishmar
or German comes here penniless
and leaves q millionaire it is not be
cause tf the patronage of his race
for in many instances the major par
if not the entire bulk of his trace j,
drawn from colored people-but be
cause he puts his prices within theil
reach. | hope MIR. jenkins will. The
next Time he attempts to show a:
apple, let the public "look at t'othe
side" j. HANNIBAL THOMAS.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17
Republican State Conven
ton.

At the recent meeting of the Re-
publican State Convention at Moat
gomery at which it was determined
to call State Convention to assem-
bic in Montgomery Wednesday,
June %, the basis Of representation
fixed give total of 200 delegates.
The apporiionment was made OH
the representation Of the several
counties in the lower house tf the
general assembly, giving to each
county two delegates to every repre-
sentative. According to this basis,
the several counties will be entitled to
the following delegates:
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17

MOnl. DlSpatcn, April y.
As the wafer rece le, and commuLi
cation with the ovelfowed districts
opens, instances come to light OF
uffering for food, exposure to wind
and weather and loss of life. The
report Of these instances come IL
quick succession upon each other,
md one has scarcely recovered from
The horror occasioned by the recital
# one experience before another i,
told more sickning than the former
A Dispatch reporter Was told yes
terday Of an instance which, with the
attendant circumstances surround
ing. it, makes a terrible picture in
the scenes of this food The Incl
dent as related is;
Frank Young, negro man, was
living with his wife three children op
the Jones place, over the liver, a
locality which had heretofore been
beyond highest rise known
" hen the river began rising
last Tuesday week netting waA
thought of it by biz or his family ex-
cept that there would probably be
quite a rise in the river, never
dreaming that the waters would rush
into the little cabin which was their
home. TEoughtless Of any danger,
they retired Tuesday night.
Sume time during the night they
we're awakened by the sound of the
water rising around them, and get
ing up they found their honse fl 'od-
ed. For safety they left the house,
and w4ding through the wafer they
reached tree into which the wife
md the two older children climbed,
followed by Frank, who held in bis
arms the youngest child, an infant.
In this tree, above the SETTLING
waters the poor creatures sat, waiting
and watching for some help to re-
move them from their perilous po
sition, but this help, it seemed, would
never come, and one by one that
unfol tunate man saw his wife and
two older children give up from
sheer exhaustion, loses their hold on
the tree. and drop in the death pit
beneath. He could not save them
being unable to swim, and having
the youngest child in his arms all be
could do was to see their last LOOKS
before they sank into their death in
the waters bosom. From Tuesday
night until Friday, without food. ex
posed to the cold wind that rushed
over that vast body Il
water, this unfortunate man clung
t, his perch. clasping his babe fast
to his breast, but, alas! when relief
did come, it came too late for the
child: exposure, hunger and cold had
'.ne their work well, and the relief
b,at that took Frank Young from
he tree where he sought refuge. took
the dead body of the child which was
passionately embraced by the raving
fsther.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17

THERE is still hope that the Blan
bill may succeed in keeping Its en-
emies. who are also enemies to the
progress of the masses, from strang
ling it to death in the House. If they
succeed in passing the bill they vii
have richly earned the gratitude O
the whole people.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17

The best element of the whites il
this State have concluded that the
chain gang system is ono that is now
necessary to abolish. 1t is dis
orsce.-Atlanta Defiance.
The changing and convict labor
brutalizes humanity good people
show band together and over tho0
the evils, The lot of the honest la
borer is sufficiently hard without
having to be placed in competition
with cOnvicts.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17
Centennial celebrsut n.

The centennial of the organization
of the first Lodge. under the war
rant, granted by the Grand Lodge
Of England, to Prince Hall, and thir-
teen other brethren at Boston, M ass
September 28th, 1857, has been the
subject of discussion in these COLI mns
on former occasion. This is dis
tant now only about fourteen months.
Every Grand Lodge of colored Ma
sons, in the country, will hold one or
more Grand Communications be-
tween then and now. What, if any,
steps will they take, to suitably com
memorate the occasion To what W.
have said upon this subject r.. W. :.
j. K. Hilyard. D.. g.. Master OF
Masons Of Iowa, is the only person
who has taken any special notice OF
the subject. We would be pleased
to see our Brethren, Lodges, and
Grand Lodges, take hold Of this mat
ter in proper spirit and Zeal which
would insure a successful carrying
out OF such arrangements as would do
honor to the time and occasion. We
will be no stickler for place, but will
do all in our power for time and sue
cess.-Cleveland Globe.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17

In view of the attacks in certain
newspapers against the colored la
borer the the injustice is very point
edly shown in the following from tbt
Vicksburg Herald: "Southern la
Dor is not az effective as it ought te
be, but the Negro is not to blame
that this is the case. Southern land
owners are responsible for the mis-
management of their property and
for the low, standard of the labor
system in the South. Such az
the Negro laborer is to-day they made
him.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17

Now is the time for plans to b.
effected for sending colored repre-
sentatives to the Legislature Of Ala.
b.ma. The counties with Republi.
can msiorities should not let the
opportunity slip.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17

IT begins to appear that the only
way for the people to rid the state OF
the disgrace of the Convict system
will be to turn the Democrats out.
It seems to flourish under the Dem
oclatic administrations.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17

HoN James EO'Hara, of Nortl
Carolina, is the only colored mem
ber of Congress. Free Lance.
Is not Congressman Smalls a col
ored man?
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17

IT is about time the Republican
Executive State Committee was send
ing out the call for the Republican
State COnve ention.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17

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SATURDAY, APRIL. 17th,

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